Liang Qichao and the End of Ancient Chinese Scholarship

Author: Jiang Guangxue
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Publish Date: 2001-11-01
Features: The author starts with Legalism, Mohism, Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Qing Studies, following the academic path of Liang Qichao, exploring the transformation process of Liang Qichao from tradition to modernity. It showcases the main features of Liang Qichao's "neither Chinese nor Western, yet both Chinese and Western" academic view of China. In the past, we have focused more on Zhang Zhidong's Leyaozhi ("Chinese learning as the essence, Western learning as the application"), while neglecting the historical value of Liang Qichao's highly summarized "neither Chinese nor Western, yet both Chinese and Western" academic view of China. This book takes this as its main theme, delving into the subtle and profound, presenting comprehensive and insightful discussions, proving that its emergence is the fruit of the collision and union of Chinese and Western cultural and academic exchanges. This transitional academic view represents the cultural form of modern China's transformation from the medieval to the modern period, embodying the main trend of social thought at the time, and Liang Qichao was the leader of this trend.