1st Edition
Yan Fu and Fukuzawa Yukichi A Comparison of the Enlightenment Thoughts in China and Japan
Introduction PART I Chapters of Times: Background and Issues of the Times 1 The Background of the Era – The Crisis and Choices of the Eastern Empires 2 The Tasks of the Era – “Modernization” and “Enlightenment Thought” in China and Japan 3 A Brief Introduction to the Enlightenment Careers of Yan Fu and Fukuzawa Yukichi PART II Chapters of Culture: The Perspective of East and West Culture 4 The Framework of Eastern and Western Cultural Discourses in the Historical Process of China and Japan 5 Yan Fu and Fukuzawa Yukichi’s East and West Cultural Theory 6 Views on Science and Philosophy 7 Political Categories 8 Economic Thought 9 Historical Consciousness 10 Attitudes toward Religion 11 Theories of Reform and Enlightenment 12 Views on Education and Educational Practices
Biography
Wang Zhongjiang is a “Changjiang Scholar” Distinguished Professor of the Ministry of Education, China. He mainly focuses on studies of pre-Qin philosophy, Confucian and Taoist philosophy, unearthed documents, and modern and contemporary Chinese philosophy. He has attended many important international conferences on Chinese philosophy and delivered keynote speeches, including the 25th World Congress of Philosophy in Rome (2024), where he gave the “Wang Yangming Lecture.” He currently leads the major project “The Establishment of New Philosophical Vocabulary and New Philosophical Knowledge System in Modern China” (a key project for preserving rare and endangered academic disciplines).
