Twentieth-century skepticism

Author: Wu Shaomin
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Publish Date: 2003-07-01
Features: In the 1920s, amidst the grand intellectual liberation wave stirred by the May Fourth Movement and the New Culture Movement, a school of history known as the "Doubting School" (Gushi Bianpai), represented by Gu Jiegang, emerged. It originated from the motherbody of traditional Chinese scholarship, nourished by the rich spiritual resources of the new era, and ultimately became an academic school that dared to break away from traditional veneration of sages and clear away the mists of fabricated ancient history. It shook the academic circles of the time and had a profound impact on the development of 20th-century historiography.