The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History

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A vivid account of Chinese intellectuals across the twentieth century that provides a guide to making sense of China today. Cover Half-title Title page Copyright information Dedication Table of contents List of figures and maps Preface Acknowledgments List of abbreviations Map of China Introduction: for the public good The birth of the long twentieth century The map: ideological moments, social worlds, and enduring ideas ‘‘The intellectual’’ and Chinese thinkers and writers Ideological moments Worlds of intellectual life Enduring ideas Perspectives: how to tell the story Perceptions: Chinese and anglophone scholarship Chinese maps of modern Chinese intellectual history Chinese intellectuals: the Goldman school and after The disciplinary dispersal of Western studies of Chinese intellectuals 1 Reform: making China fit the world (1895-1915) The ideological moment: reform Words, ideas, and thought Print capitalism: China's new public sphere Challenges of the day Liang Qichao's ‘‘people’’: educating the new citizen Zhang Binglin discovers ‘‘Chinese’’ identity Discovering democracy in the provinces: constitutions and business associations From government service to business Serving Christ and China From medicine to literature Enduring ideas around 1905 China in the 1910s 2 Revolution: awakening New China (1915-1935) The ideological moment: revolution Awakening China Ding Wenjiang and China's revolution in science Science and politics: Hu Shi's liberal revolution Ding Ling (1904-1986): women's revolutions on the national scene China's ‘‘other’’ intellectuals: local, everyday, rural, and ordinary Liang Shuming's moral revolution Enduring ideas in the 1920s China in the 1930s 3 Rejuvenation: organizing China (1936-1956) The ideological moment: building China War and industrialization China's propaganda states Propaganda: the directed public sphere of the party-state Intellectual cadres: servants of the propaganda state The perils of state service: Hu Shi, Chen Bulei, and Wu Han The intellectual cadre: Deng Tuo and Wang Shiwei Western-trained scholars and patriotic returnees: Zhou Yiliang and Qian Xuesen Enduring ideas in the 1940s China in the 1950s 4 Revolutionary revival: overthrowing the lords of nation-building (1957-1976) The ideological moment: making socialism work Revolution to change your soul The last gasp of Chinese liberalism: Luo Longji Mobilizing the left: Zhang Chunqiao and Yao Wenyuan Records of survival and loss: Yang Jiang and Yue Daiyun Rumblings among the Red Guards: Li Yizhe and youth criticism Rural and regional intellectuals Enduring ideas, 1965 China in the 1970s 5 Reviving reform: correcting revolutionary errors (1976-1995) The ideological moment: reforming the revolution From Party revival to market socialism Liu Binyan and Wang Ruoshui: reforming propaganda and theory Fang Lizhi's science and democracy and Li Zehou's academic assault on orthodoxy Students: from culture craze to Tiananmen 1989 Tiananmen 1989 and after: hope, repression, and a return to reform The post-Tiananmen intellectual establishment Enduring ideas, 1985 China in the 1990s 6 Rejuvenation: securing the Chinese Dream (1996-2015) The ideological moment: the Chinese Dream and the perils of prosperity The challenges of China’s prosperous age China’s directed public sphere and the social media revolution China’s directed public sphere The sinophone sphere, and worrying about China The many worlds of China’s intellectuals The official world The academic world The commercial world Associational worlds Dissent Establishment intellectuals: Cui Zhiyuan and the New Left Chongqing model The academy and public intellectuals: Xu Jilin and the liberals Voices from civil society: Chan Koonchung, New Confucians, and dissent New Confucianism Contemporary dissent Enduring ideas, 2005 China in the 2010s Conclusion: intellectuals, China, and the world Intellectuals and China China and the world Who’s who (intellectuals featured in the main text) Further reading Useful textbooks Chinese voices: translations from Chinese intellectuals and ordinary citizens Recommended next reads Useful websites Bibliography Index