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

Published by Harvard University Press 1976

The Limits of Change

Essays on Conservative Alternatives in Republican China

Edited by: Charlotte Furth

Volume 84 in the series Harvard East Asian Series

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674332966

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The Limits of Change disputes the impression that the conservative ideas and styles of China's Republican period were neither strong nor persuasive enough to counter the ideas or the revolution of Mao. As the contributors to the book point out, these conservative movements reflected a modern outlook and shared a framework of common concepts with the radical movements they opposed.

In these essays we see the broad range of responses that conservatism in the Republican period took--from a new nativist historical consciousness, to quasi-Fascist theories of political mobilization, to efforts at a revival of Confucianism as a moral faith. Individual writers analyze the early Republican National Essence movement, the new Confucian humanism of the 1920s and afterwards, political ideology under Republican military dictatorships, and the ideas of modern literary conservatives. Two major interpretive essays place Chinese trends in the context of worldwide conservative responses to industrialization, political modernism, and the challenge of secularism. Through its far-reaching, detailed, and sympathetic assessment of the role of conservative ideology in China's modern intellectual experience, Limits of Change makes a distinguished contribution to Chinese studies.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
I. Introductory Perspectives: The Conservative Idea and Chinese Realities
Notes on Conservatism in General and in China in Particular Benjamin I. Schwartz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Culture and Politics in Modern Chinese Conservatism Charlotte Furth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
II National Essence
National Essence and the New Intelligentsia Laurence A. Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Liu Shih-p'ei and National Essence Martin Bernal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
The Sage as Rebel; The Inner World of Chang Ping-lin Charlotte Furth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
The Suicide of Liang Chi: An Ambiguous Case of Moral Conservatism Lin Yu Sheng Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	151
III. Political Modernization Against Revolutionary Politics
The Hung-hsien Emperor as a Modernizing Conservative Ernest P. Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
The Kuomintang in the 1930s Lloyd E. Eastman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
IV. The New Confucianism of the Post May Fourth Era
The Conservative as Sage: Liang Shu-ming Guy Alitto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
Hsiung Shih-li's Quest for Authentic Existence Tu Wei-Ming Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	242
New Confucianism and the Intellectual Crisis of Contemporary China Hao Chang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
V. Modern Historicism and the Limits of Change
T'ao Hsi-sheng: The Social Limits of Ghange Arif Dirlik Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
Chou Tso-jen: A Scholar Who Withdrew David E. Pollard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	332
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
Glossary Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	419
HARVARD EAST ASIAN SERIES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	427

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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1976
Edition: Reprint 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 426
Keywords: HISTORY / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General; Conservatism -- China -- Congresses.; China -- Intellectual life -- Congresses.

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Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674332966

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1976
ISBN: 9780674332959