Very Dao: Chinese Discourse 1840-1999

Author: Yu Shicun (Editor)
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Modern China has encountered a great transformation unseen in three thousand years. During this extraordinary period, there must be extraordinary words. This book adopts a style similar to The New Stories of the World, selecting historical fragments from the late Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China, to the post-liberation era. It records the prominent figures of the Tongzhi period, represented by Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, and Li Hongzhang; the heroic figures of the Xinhai Revolution, represented by Sun Yat-sen and Yuan Shikai; the pioneers of the New Culture Movement, represented by Hu Shih and Chen Duxiu; the leaders of the Kuomintang and Communist Party of China, represented by Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek; the traditional scholars, represented by Qian Zhongshu and Chen Yinke; the literary warriors, represented by Li Ao and Wang Xiaobo, and so on. It is divided into thirty-two sections: Historical Scenes, Political Affairs, Literary Forest, Martial Fortune, Revolution, Emergence, Human Discourse, Heroic Spirit, and Folly.