Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio by Liang Qichao, Peter Zarrow Daring essays on democracy, history and the nation state by one of Chinas leading twentieth-century intellectualsThe power, anger and fluency of Liang Qichaos 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. China could only recover through a clear-sighted, informed understanding of its enemies - and by engaging in a thorough-going self-critique. Then China would be able to expel its invaders, reform its society and become a great power once more.Liang said that he wrote from an ice-drinkers studio, implying that underneath his dispassionate tone lay an ardour and passion which only ice could cool. This selection of pieces shows Liangs extraordinary range and the burning sense of mission which drove him on. Blending together Confucianism, Buddhism and the Western Enlightenment, Liangs 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Liang Qichao (1873-1929) was a reformist intellectual, who facing brutal repression fled to Japan where he lived for fourteen years. His long exile, travels and writing - of fiction, journalism and above all essays - gave Liang a unique authority in the first years of the twentieth century.Peter Zarrow is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut and Adjunct Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica. He has held teaching and research positions in Australia and Taiwan, and he has published extensively in English and Chinese on the intellectual and cultural history of China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Review Chinas first iconic modern intellectual. His lucid and prolific writings, touching on all major concerns in his own time and anticipating many in the future, inspired several generations of thinkers including the much younger Mao Zedong. -- Pankaj Mishra Details ISBN0241568781 Author Peter Zarrow Publisher Penguin Books Ltd Language English Year 2023 ISBN-10 0241568781 ISBN-13 9780241568781 Publication Date 2023-10-26 UK Release Date 2023-10-26 Format Paperback Imprint Penguin Classics Subtitle Essays on China and the World Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Translated from Chinese Edited by Peter Zarrow Pages 272 NZ Release Date 2024-02-05 DEWEY 895.145 AU Release Date 2024-02-05 Translator Peter Zarrow Alternative 9781802060140 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:151500229;
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