Has Man a Future?—Dialogues with the Last Confucian(English)

ISBN:9783642358159

Language:English

Author:Liang Shuming,Guy S. Alitto

Country/Region:Germany

Publisher:Springer Group

Publication date:2013

Product Description

The book is about conversations in 1980 between Liang Shu-Ming, one of the early representatives of modern Neo-Confucianism, and Guy S. Alitto, a renowned American sinologue and translator of the book. The selected conversations that best reflect Liang's thought and experience, reviewing the social and historical events of modern China, along with Liang's reflection on his contact with many famous people, e.g. Li Dazhao, Chen Duxiu, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Chiang Kai-shek and Hu Shih, can be considered as a good reference to the research and understanding of modern China in the first half of the 20th century.

About the Author
Liang Shuming was a famous contemporary thinker, philosopher, educator, one of the early representatives of modern Neo-Confucianism, social activists, patriotic democrats, and he was also a social reform practitioner, having spared no effort to promote rural construction.