ISBN-13: 9781138971493 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 248 str.
ISBN-13: 9781138971493 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 248 str.
First published in 1958
These volumes analyze modern Chinese history and its inner process, from the pre-western plateau of Confucianism to the communist triumph, in the context of many themes: science, art, philosophy, religion and economic, political, and social change. Volume One includes:
. The critique of Idealism
. Science and Ch'ing empiricism
. The Ming style, in society and art
. Confucianism and the end of the Taoist connection
. Eclecticism in the area of native Chinese choices
. T'i and Yung
. The Chin-Wen School and the classical sanction
. The modern Ku-Wen opposition to Chin-Wen reformism
. The role of nationalism
. Communism
. Western powers and Chinese revolutions
. Language change and the problem of continuity"