The Limits of Change: Essays on Conservative Alternatives in Republican China

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I Introductory Perspectives: The Conservative Idea and Chinese Realities 1 Notes on Conservatism in General and in China in Particular 2 Culture and Politics in Modem Chinese Conservatism II National Essence 3 National Essence and the New Intelligentsia 4 Liu Shih-p’ei and National Essence 5 The Sage as Rebel: The Inner World of Chang Ping-lin 6 The Suicide of Liang Chi: An Ambiguous Case of Moral Conservatism III Political Modernization Against Revolutionary Politics 7 The Hung-hsien Emperor as a Modernizing Conservative 8 The Kuomintang in the 1930s IV The New Confucianism of the Post May Fourth Era 9 The Conservative as Sage: Liang Shu-ming 10 Hsiung Shih-li’s Quest for Authentic Existence 11 New Confucianism and the Intellectual Crisis of Contemporary China V Modern Historicism and the Limits of Change 12 T’ao Hsi-sheng: The Social Limits of Change 13 Chou Tso-jen: A Scholar Who Withdrew Contributors Notes Glossary Index