The rise of modern Chinese thought /
Hui Wang ; edited by Michael Gibbs Hill.
- xxviii, 1059 pages ; 25 cm
Translation of an abridged version of a work originally published in Chinese as Xian dai Zhongguo si xiang de xing qi in 2004. This translation focuses on Part One (volumes 1-2) of the original text.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Wang Hui asks what it means for China to be modern and for modernity to be Chinese. Is there a rupture between tradition and modernity in China? How has Confucian thought evolved? Did China become modern in the Middle Ages? A deep intellectual history, The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought revises our senses of both modernity and Chinese philosophy"--