This translation of the introduction to Wang Hui’s Rise of Modern Chinese Thought (2004) makes part of his four-volume masterwork available to English readers for the first time. A leading public intellectual in China, Wang charts the historical currents that have shaped Chinese modernity from the Song Dynasty to the present day, and along the way challenges the West to rethink some of its most basic assumptions about what it means to be modern.
China from Empire to Nation-State exposes oversimplifications and distortions implicit in Western critiques of Chinese history, which long held that China was culturally resistant to modernization, only able to join the community of modern nations when the Qing Empire finally collapsed in 1912. Noting that Western ideas have failed to take into account the diversity of Chinese experience, Wang recovers important strains of premodern thought. Chinese thinkers theorized politics in ways that do not line up neatly with political thought in the West—for example, the notion of a “Heavenly Principle” that governed everything from the ordering of the cosmos to the structure of society and rationality itself. Often dismissed as evidence of imperial China’s irredeemably backward culture, many Neo-Confucian concepts reemerged in twentieth-century Chinese political discourse, as thinkers and activists from across the ideological spectrum appealed to ancient precedents and principles in support of their political and cultural agendas. Wang thus enables us to see how many aspects of premodern thought contributed to a distinctly Chinese vision of modernity.
Wang Hui is Professor of Literature and History at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
汪晖是当代中国思想史界最重要也最活跃的学者之一。汪晖的专长原为文学史,八十年代末期以来曾以一系列的鲁迅研究广受好评。他的专著《反抗绝望》讨论鲁迅思想和创作的种种幽微转折,是近年有关鲁迅诗学和政治思想最有洞见的著作之一。九十年代初,汪晖的学术兴趣转向思想史,...
评分今天参加这个会议心情很是复杂。汪晖是我二十年前的老朋友,在研究生院我们一起生活、学习了多年,有着共同的经历,建立了很好的友谊,甚至曾经见证着对于我们来说很重要的一段历史。后来我一病经年,退出了学界。十年后当我重返学界的时候,发现发生了很多的变化,有些变故使...
评分近年来,真正有价值,有分量的书,真的不多,这本书算为数不多的几本中的一本吧!学人的气魄从导言中已可见一斑,当然,我只能这么说,因为我只看了导言,而且只一部分。
评分很多人先入为主,听说了这本书有剽窃的嫌疑,因而便舍之而不读了。但是,不读一本书的理由有很多,要想真正翻开一本书的理由有时候却真得找不到,特别是对这样一本“厚重”的著作,就尤其如此了。有时候真的需要静下心来,深入到书中,深入到作者的思考之中,这样,才能找到自...
评分汪晖这个书是近二十年左右最重要的一本书,篇幅很大,从中国思想史的角度涵盖的几乎是从一开始一直到现在,他在每一个部分的进入都有很多他自己的看法。所以我觉得可能牵涉到两个语境,一个就是当代语境,就是处在当代二十年左右的中国思想、文化、学术变迁当中,汪晖自己的一...
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评分教主其实很多想法,对中国史研究的脉络梳理比徒子徒孙不知道强到哪里去。但是很多时候还是流于空疏。
评分两颗星全是给翻译的,太不容易了~传送 http://vdisk.微博.com/s/yV7YJRX8GDuqc
评分教主其实很多想法,对中国史研究的脉络梳理比徒子徒孙不知道强到哪里去。但是很多时候还是流于空疏。
评分两颗星全是给翻译的,太不容易了~传送 http://vdisk.微博.com/s/yV7YJRX8GDuqc
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