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The Chinese Path to Modernisation

Author(s) -

Tze-ki Hon

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

international journal for history culture and modernity

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2213-0624

DOI - 10.18352/hcm.470

Subject(s) - modernization theory , westernization , scientism , modernity , china , morality , modern history , philosophy , asian studies , section (typography) , dialectic , epistemology , sociology , history , aesthetics , political science , law , ancient history , advertising , business

In this paper, I will examine the notion of “alternative modernity” that was prominent during Republican China. In the first section, I will discuss “the debate on science and the philosophy of life” (1923) and the debate over total westernisation (1935), highlighting the two main areas of contention between the May Fourth intellectuals and their critics: scientism and populism. In the second section, I will compare the writings of four thinkers: Liang Shuming (1893-1988), Wu Mei (1894-1978), Liu Yizheng (1880-1956), and Chen Yinke (1890-1969), focusing on how they used “culture” ( wenhua ) and “morality” ( daode ) to chart a Chinese path to modernisation. In the third section, I will discuss the reasons for a lack of support for alternative modernity in Republican China.

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