1st Edition
Beyond Confucian China The Rival Discourses of Kang Youwei and Zhang Binglin
By Young-tsu Wong
Copyright 2010
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
Young-tsu Wong throws new light on Kang Youwei and Zhang Binglin, both through research on the sources, nature and import of their ideas and through juxtaposing them. The result is a provocative and stimulating analysis of late Qing-early Republican thought. Never before these two rival thinkers have been studied in any western language, and Wong sees these two men, though distinctly different in... Read more
Introduction Part I: Reform and Revolution 1. Kang Yuwei and the Reform Movement 0f 1898 2. Zhang Binglin and the Revolution of 1911 Part II: Philosophy and History 3. Kang’s Philosophical Hermeneutics for Political Reform 4. Zhang’s Defense of History Part III: Paths to Modernity 5. Kang’s Quest for Modern Material Civilization 6. Zhang’s Critique of Western Modernity Conclusion
Biography
Young-tsu Wong is a Chair Professor at National Central University in Taiwan.
