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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820886603321

Autore

Lin Xiaoqing Diana <1963->

Titolo

Peking University : Chinese scholarship and intellectuals, 1898-1937 / / Xiaoqing Diana Lin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , 2005

©2005

ISBN

0-7914-8391-6

1-4237-4370-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 232 pages) : illustrations

Collana

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

Disciplina

378.51/156

Soggetti

Learning and scholarship - China - 20th century

China Intellectual life 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- From Gewu zhizhi to Building a New Moral Universe? -- From Imperial to Civil Service Examinations -- From a Defense of Confucian Moral Knowledge to New Construction of Chinese Culture -- The Transformation of a Discursive Context -- The Uses of the Evolutionary Historical Framework -- Grasping for Permanence in Historical Change -- Confucian Moral Cultivation, Science, and Social Relevance -- Western Legal and Political Theories as Agents of Social Reform -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Peking University, founded in 1898, was at the center of the major intellectual movements of twentieth-century China. In this institutional and intellectual history, author Xiaoqing Diana Lin shows how the university reflected and shaped Chinese intellectual culture in an era of great change, one that saw both a surge of nationalism and an interest in Western concepts such as democracy, science, and Marxism. Lin discusses Peking University's spirit of openness and how the school both encouraged the synthesis of Chinese and Western knowledge and promoted Western learning for the national good. The work covers the introduction of modern academic disciplines, the shift from integrative learning to specialized learning, and the reinterpretation of



Confucianism for contemporary times.