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Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio - Essays on China and the World (Paperback)
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Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio - Essays on China and the World (Paperback)
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'A country does not become corrupt and weak overnight. Rather, we
are now reaping the evil harvest of what previous generations
sowed.' The power, anger and fluency of Liang Qichao's writings
make him one of the towering figures in modern Chinese literature.
He saw his great, almost unmanageable task as an attempt to write
China into the new era - to provide an ancient country, devastated
by civil war and foreign predators, with the intellectual equipment
to renew itself. Liang said that he wrote from an 'ice-drinker's
studio', implying that underneath his dispassionate, disabused and
rational tone lay an ardour and passion which only ice could cool.
China could only recover through a clear-sighted, informed
understanding of its enemies - and by engaging in a thorough-going
self-critique. Liang did not propose aping the West but taking only
what China needed to 'renew the people' and create 'new citizens'.
Then China would be able to expel its invaders, reform its society
and become a great power once more. This selection of pieces shows
Liang's extraordinary range and the burning sense of mission which
drove him on, attempting to galvanize and refresh an entire nation.
Blending together Confucianism, Buddhism and the Western
Enlightenment, Liang's ideas about nation, democracy, and morality
had a profound impact on Chinese visions of the political order,
though the China that eventually emerged from the further disasters
of the 1930s and 1940s would be a very different one.
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Imprint: |
Penguin Classics
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
October 2023 |
Editors: |
Peter Zarrow
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Authors: |
Liang Qi Chao
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Dimensions: |
198 x 129 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-241-56878-1 |
Subtitles: |
Chinese
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Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
0-241-56878-1 |
Barcode: |
9780241568781 |
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