An Intellectual History Of Modern China

An Intellectual History of Modern China is the only comprehensive book onmodern Chinas intellectual development from the nineteenth to the end of thetwentieth c... » 

An Intellectual History of Modern China is the only comprehensive book onmodern Chinas intellectual development from the nineteenth to the end of thetwentieth century. Merle Goldman and Leo Oufan Lee introduce and set thecontemporary scholarly context for this collection of essays drawn from thelater volumes Volumes 1215 of The Cambridge History of China. The chaptersauthored by eminent historians and social scientists in the field of Chinesestudies together trace the transformation of Confucian ideas the introductionof Western views and the resulting uniquely Chinese view of the world. Bylinking key intellectual developments and figures to emerging politicalmovements they explain the profound impact of changing ideas and values onChinese politics and revolution. Merle Goldman brings the history up to datewith a new concluding chapter on the Deng Xiaoping era and Chinasintellectual scene at the end of the twentieth century. «