Chinese Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949

Chinese Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949 offers a panoramic study of Chinese reflections on "progress," its multifaceted expressions, contesting interpretations, highly optimistic implications, but also the criticism it encountered.

About the author

Thomas Fröhlich is Professor of Sinology at Hamburg University. He has published monographs, edited volumes, and many articles on modern Chinese philosophy and intellectual history, including Staatsdenken im China der Republikzeit (Campus, 2000) and Tang Junyi. Modern Confucianism and the Challenge of Modernity (Brill, 2017).

Axel Schneider is Professor of Modern Sinology at the University of Göttingen. He has published monographs in German and Chinese, several edited volumes and many articles on modern Chinese intellectual history, especially academic history and the philosophy and politics of Chinese conservatism.

Product details

• Assisted by: Thomas Fröhlich (Editor), Axel Schneider (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.05.2020
• EAN: 9789004426535
• ISBN: 978-90-04-42653-5
• No. of pages: 334
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 598 g
• Series: Leiden Comparative Historiogra
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries