Modern Crisis and Thinkers

Author: Yu Ying-shih
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: This is an important collection of essays by the author on the intellectual and cultural history of modern China. Centered on representative figures of 20th-century Chinese culture such as Hu Shih, Qian Mu, and Chen Yin-kuo, it explores how traditional Chinese culture and its bearers consciously moved forward amid contradictions, underwent modern transformation through metamorphosis, and simultaneously absorbed the essence of other cultures while assuming the historical mission of forging national culture.