Analyze China

Author: Goodnow
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: Goodnow is an expert in American administrative law. In 1913, he was appointed as a constitutional advisor to the Beiyang Government. Goodnow believed that China's fundamental solution lay in the development of its economy and that economic issues should be the core concern of China. He sharply criticized the tendency among Chinese intellectuals to attribute China's problems to cultural issues. He also analyzed the changing political, economic, and social landscape of China, offering many prescient insights. In his book Understanding China, Goodnow argued that China's fundamental solution lay in the development of its economy and that economic issues should be the core concern of China. He sharply criticized the tendency among Chinese intellectuals to attribute China's problems to cultural issues, arguing that this would lead them to detach from society, dismiss economic matters, rigidly apply Western systems, and engage in theoretical speculation. He also analyzed the changing political, economic, and social landscape of China, offering many prescient insights. This book also includes Lu Cun's Xin Wen, a work comparable to Pai Yang's The Ugly Chinese. Lu Cun, a Western wife married to a Chinese man, delivered scathing critiques of Chinese people and the society of that time with an extremely sharp pen. Reading it today still feels like being pricked by thorns, provoking deep reflection.