The Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Modernity

Shows how Chinese intellectuals engaged according to their different cultural and political persuasions in the early twentieth century.

Autorentext
Edmund S. K. Fung is Professor of Asian Studies at the University of Western Sydney. His previous publications include In Search of Chinese Democracy (Cambridge, 2000), The Diplomacy of Imperial Retreat: Britain's South China Policy, 1924 1931 (1991), and The Military Dimension of the Chinese Revolution: The New Army and its Role in the Revolution of 1911 (1980).

Zusammenfassung
In the early twentieth century, China was on the brink of change. Different ideologies - radicalism, conservatism, liberalism, and social democracy - were much debated in political and intellectual circles. Edmund S. K. Fung shows how they related to one another and how intellectuals engaged according to their different cultural and political persuasions.

Inhalt
Introduction; 1. The push of Westernized radicalism; 2. The pull of cultural conservatism; 3. The politics of modern Chinese conservatism; 4. Liberalism in China and Chinese liberal thought; 5. The state, government and rule of law; 6. The rise of reformist socialist thought; 7. From state socialism to social democracy; Conclusion.

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