An Intellectual History of Modern China

This book, first published in 2002, is a comprehensive survey of modern China's intellectual history.

Merle Goldman (Edited by), Leo Ou-fan Lee (Edited by)

9780521797108, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 16 May 2002

618 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm, 0.82 kg

"In this collection of carefully researched essays, leading scholars explicate China's intellectual transformation from the 1890s to the 1990s...the rewards are many, and the potential for further research remains strong. As an "intellectual history of modern China" instead of a "modern Chinese intellectual history", the volume continues to inform and to orient further research." - The Journal of Asian Studies Wen-Hsin Yeh, University of California, Berkeley

An Intellectual History of Modern China, first published in 2002, is a comprehensive book on modern China's intellectual development from the nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Merle Goldman and Leo Ou-fan Lee introduce and set the contemporary, scholarly context for this collection of essays, drawn from the later volumes (Volumes 12-15) of The Cambridge History of China. The chapters, authored by eminent historians and social scientists in the field of Chinese studies, together trace the transformation of Confucian ideas, the introduction of Western views, and the resulting, uniquely Chinese view of the world. By linking key intellectual developments and figures to emerging political movements, they explain the profound impact of changing ideas and values on Chinese politics and revolution. Merle Goldman brings the history up to date with a new, concluding chapter on the Deng Xiaoping era and China's intellectual scene at the end of the twentieth century.

1. Intellectual change
2. Themes in intellectual history
3. Literary trends: the quest for modernity
4. Literary trends: the road to revolution
5. Mao Tse-tung's thought to 1949
6. The party and the intellectuals
7. Mao Tse-tung's thought from 1949–76
8. An intellectual history of the Deng era.

Subject Areas: History of ideas [JFCX], History of other lands [HBJQ]