Shifts of power : : modern Chinese thought and society / / by Luo Zhitian ; translated by Lane J. Harris, Mei Chun.

• Author: Luo, Zhitian, 1952-
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, [2017]
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Humanities in China Library 11.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 443 pages).

In Shifts of Power: Modern Chinese Thought and Society , Luo Zhitian brings together nine essays to explore the causes and consequences of various shifts of power in modern Chinese society, including the shift from scholars to intellectuals, from the traditional state to the modern state, and from the people to society. Adopting a microhistorical approach, Luo situates these shifts at the intersection of social change and intellectual evolution in the midst of modern China’s culture wars with the West. Those culture wars produced new problems for China, but also provided some new intellectual resources as Chinese scholars and intellectuals grappled with the collisions and convergences of old and new in late Qing and early Republican China.

Table of Contents

The Worship of the New: A Shift of Power in Modern Chinese Thought under the Impact of the Western Tide / Luo Zhitian and Mei Chun -- The Abolition of the Examination System and the Disintegration of the Four-Class Society: Modern Social Change in the Eyes of an Inland Member of the Gentry / Luo Zhitian and Mei Chun -- The Impact of the Abolition of the Examination System on Rural Society / Luo Zhitian and Mei Chun -- Shifts of Social Power in Modern China:The Marginalization of Intellectuals and theRise of Marginal Intellectuals / Luo Zhitian and Mei Chun -- The Worries and Responsibilities of Educated Chinese in the Age of Transition1 / Luo Zhitian and Mei Chun -- The Monolithicization of Chinese Tradition: The Development of Anti-Traditional Trends in the Late Qing and Early Republic / Luo Zhitian and Mei Chun -- The Divided West: The International Storm and the Development of Chinese Thought in the May Fourth Era / Luo Zhitian and Mei Chun -- Reflections on the Uniqueness of Modern Chinese Nationalism / Luo Zhitian and Mei Chun -- The State Advances, the People Retreat: The Rise of a Trend in the Late Qing / Luo Zhitian and Mei Chun.