Chinese Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949

Chinese Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949
ISBN-10
9004426531
ISBN-13
9789004426535
Category
History
Pages
323
Language
English
Published
2020
Publisher
Leiden Comparative Historiogra
Authors
Axel Schneider, Thomas Fröhlich

Description

"Chinese Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949 offers a panoramic view of reflections on progress in modern China. Since the turn of the twentieth century, the discourses on progress shape Chinese understandings of modernity and its pitfalls. As this in-depth study shows, these discourses play a pivotal role in the fields of politics, society, culture, as well as philosophy, history, and literature. It is therefore no exaggeration to say that the Chinese ideas of progress, their often highly optimistic implications, but also the criticism of modernity they offered, opened the gateway for reflections on China's past, its position in the present world, and its future course"--

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