Rising Tide of the West, East Wind Returns: Thought, Religion, and Scholarship in Late Qing and Early Republican China

Author: Ge Zhaoguang
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: This book is a collection of ten essays by the renowned scholar Professor Ge Zhaoguang on the thoughts, religions, and academia of the late Qing and early Republican periods. The author has long been dedicated to the study of intellectual history, academic history, and religious history. In recent years, he has also focused on the history of China's interactions with its neighboring countries. His essays often revolve around how China, Japan, and Korea coped with the impact of the "Western Wave," and how China transformed under the influence of the "Eastern Wind." The issues frequently center on the history of Buddhism, intellectual history, and academic history. Therefore, in this book, the author provides both grand-scale critiques and case-by-case analyses of the various responses of China's intellectual community to the dual entanglement and pressure of the "Eastern Wind" and the "Western Wave" during the tumultuous era of the late Qing and early Republican periods, a time of unprecedented change in two thousand years. In both methodology and approach, the author's unique academic personality shines through.