Histoire sociale et intellectuelle de la Chine / / Jacques Gernet.

• Superior document: Leçons inaugurales du Collège de France ; 71
• VerfasserIn: Gernet, Jacques
• Place / Publishing House: France : : Collège de France,, 1976
• Year of Publication: 1976
• Language: French
• Series: Leçons inaugurales du Collège de France ; 71.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (31 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

It is above all as a historian, concerned about the concrete facts of the evolution of Chinese society, that I intend to approach the history of ideas, conceptions and intellectual trends in China. The time is no longer when we pictured the history of China as a long, uniform series of practically interchangeable periods. The history of China has a meaning, just like ours. It has been marked by ruptures and has known periods of very rapid evolution. Who admits that men are products of their society and their history, the XVI th , XVII th and XVIII th Chinese centuries constitute a privileged period of research. The upheavals and social, economic and political transformations that have taken place during these three centuries, the richness and diversity of intellectual life, the evolution of ideas, the large number of independent minds and remarkable personalities make them the exceptional interest.