It's Complicated: Getting our heads around a changing China
Sinica Podcast
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What Is Modern Chinese Intellectual History?
One of the great intellectual historians of modern china was an american scholar named joseph levinson, who published a monumental work in three parts, confucian china and its modern fate. He conceived of a way for us to think about what intellectual history really is. Any answer that modern chinese might eventually settle on would have to succeed not only in making the nation wealthy and powerful, but it would also have to resolve a really fundamental tension. It would have to be emotionally satisfying to me as a chinese person,. To accord with history and to feel as though it were chinese.
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