Chinese visions of progress, 1895 to 1949
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Chinese visions of progress, 1895 to 1949
(Leiden series in comparative historiography, v. 13)
Brill, c2020
- : hardback
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Contributors
Introduction: Progress, History, and Time in Chinese Discourses after the 1890s
Thomas Froehlich
Part 1: Initial Conceptual Encounters
1 The Chinese Concept of "Progress"
Kai Vogelsang
2 The Progress of Civilization and Confucianism in Modern East Asia: Fukuzawa Yukichi and Different Forms of Enlightenment
Takahiro Nakajima
Part 2: Tides of Optimism
3 The Idea of Progress in Modern China: the Case of Yan Fu
Li Qiang
4 Prospect Optimism in Modern China: the Formation of a Political Paradigm
Thomas Froehlich
5 An Anatomy of the Utopian Impulse in Modern Chinese Political Thought, 1890-1940
Peter Zarrow
6 The Optimism of Cultural Construction in the 1930s: Wholesale Westernization, Cultural Unit Theory, and Cultural Construction on a Chinese Base
Leigh Jenco
7 Fantasizing Science: the Idea of Progress in Early Chinese Science Fiction (1905-1920)
Rui Kunze
Part 2: Margins of Skepticism
8 Critiques of Progress: Reflections on Chinese Conservatism
Axel Schneider
9 Playing the Same Old Tricks: Lu Xun's Reflections on Modernity in His Essay "Modern History"
Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik
Index
by "Nielsen BookData"