1st Edition

The Problem of China

By Bertrand Russell Copyright 2021
230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

230 Pages
by Routledge

'China, by her resources and her population, is capable of being the greatest power in the world after the United States.' Bertrand Russell , The Problem of China In 1920 the philosopher Bertrand Russell spent a year in China as Professor of Philosophy at the University of Beijing (then Peking), where his lectures on mathematical logic enthralled students and listeners, including Mao... Read more

Introduction to The Problem of China Bernard Linsky

Preface

1. Questions

2. China before the Nineteenth Century

3. China and the Western Powers

4. Modern China

5. Japan before the Restoration

6. Modern Japan

7. Japan and China before 1914

8. Japan and China during the War

9. The Washington Conference

10. Present Forces and Tendencies in the Far East

11. Chinese and Western Civilization Contrasted

12. The Chinese Character

13. Higher Education in China

14. Industrialism in China

15. The Outlook for China.

Appendix

Postscript

Index

Biography

Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970) is regarded as one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century and a celebrated writer and commentator on social and political affairs.