Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
First published in 1958
These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume One includes:
- The critique of Idealism
- Science and Ch'ing empiricism
- The Ming style, in society and art
- Confucianism and the end of the Taoist connection
- Eclecticism in the area of native Chinese choices
- T'i and Yung
- The Chin-Wen School and the classical sanction
- The modern Ku-Wen opposition to Chin-Wen reformism
- The role of nationalism
- Communism
- Western powers and Chinese revolutions
- Language change and the problem of continuity