Twentieth-Century Chinese Thought: A Critical History (Part Two)

Author: Xu Jilin
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Publish Date: 2000-07-01
Features: This book is a selected collection of essays on the history of ideas, systematically compiling important research on the intellectual history of 20th-century China since the 1980s. The book is divided into two volumes, four parts, and includes 23 essays. The first part is a special section on the May Fourth Movement, analyzing this complex and contradictory era from multiple perspectives such as economic ethics, freedom and conservatism, enlightenment and salvation, rationalism and romanticism, and exploring the fundamental reasons for the changes in Chinese social thought in the 20th century. The second and third parts focus on the various ideas and debates that surged in the intellectual history of 20th-century China. The fourth parts the various intellectual trends that shook China since the May Fourth Movement. Each essay in the book is well-argued and impactful, offering valuable insights for understanding and researching the intellectual landscape of contemporary China.