Socialism, Capitalism, and Democracy in Republican China; The Political Thought of Zhang Dongsun  

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Fung, Edmund S.K.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Modern China vol. 28 no. 4 (Oct. 2002), page 399-431.
Topik: The Political Thought of Zhang Dongsun
Fulltext: 399MC284.pdf (128.73KB)

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Zhang Dongsun (1886-1973), a leading scholar ofWestern philosophy in the Republican period, has been relatively neglected inWestern scholarship on twentieth-century Chinese intellectual history. 1 Likewise, he has received little attention in Chinese academic circles until recently. Zhang Yaonan (1995, 1998), Zuo Yuhe (1997, 1998, 1999a, 1999b), and Ke Rou (2000) have rescued him from long neglect, recognizing his significant contributions to studies of philosophy and culture, especially his theory of knowledge, or “epistemological pluralism,” as he called it. It is barely known that Zhang was also a political commentator whose valuable insights into some of the polemics of his timemade him a significant figure in educated circles. In particular, his views on socialism, capitalism, and democracy were diagnostic and reflective of some enduring themes in modern China, such as development, cultural change, political reform, and social transformation. These themes relate to wider questions about China’s past, present, and future and ways of achieving national salvation. As a public intellectual, Zhang was wrestling with the problems of politics, culture, and economics problems similar to some of those facing the Chinese government and political activists alike in the contemporary period. Not onlywas his thought significant in his time, but it is also relevant to present-day issues of economic and political reform in the PRC.

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