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In Inheritance within Rupture, Luo Zhitian brings together ten essays to explore the themes of change and continuity, rupture and inheritance from the late Qing through the early Republic (1890s-1940s). Rejecting binaries such as tradition/modernity, conservative/liberal, Luo blurs the divisions between intellectual opponents and clarifies the divergences between scholarly friends. Centering these discussions around some of the most famous intellectual debates in the modern period, Luo challenges our understanding of ideological positions, political affiliation, and scholarly identity in early twentieth-century China. By focusing on the influence of cultural inheritance within the rupture of modernity, we come to understand those concerns shared by all Chinese in their own times and in the present.
Price: $267.00
Pages: 452
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Humanities in China Library
Publication Date:
30 January 2015
ISBN: 9789004247796
Format: Hardcover
"Professor Luo Zhitian's collected volume on the multi-layered bases of modem Chinese intellectual transformations from the post-Boxer Rebellion years to the May Fourth New Culture era, Inheritance within Rupture: Culture and Scholarship in Early Twentieth Century, makes an important contribution to English academia. [...] the translators have made this book readable and intellectually accesible in English."
– Nagatomi Hirayama, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, in Frontiers of History in China 12.2 (August 2017).
"A masterful as well as a very engaging piece of an important episode in contemporary China. On the one hand, it demonstrates the ways in which Chinese scholars tried to improve China’s cultural status in the world. On the other hand, it is a clear narrative, which makes it a valuable addition to the literature on China’s culture from the late Qing Dynasty through the early Republic era. This book will rightfully be of interest to scholars engaged in scholarly community and ideology in China (1890s-1940s), and it is a worthy addition to the shelf of any individual interested in the evolution of China’s culture and scholarship in China (1890s-1940s)."
– Kai Chen, Xiamen University, in African and Asian Studies 17 (2018), p. 189-204.
– Nagatomi Hirayama, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, in Frontiers of History in China 12.2 (August 2017).
"A masterful as well as a very engaging piece of an important episode in contemporary China. On the one hand, it demonstrates the ways in which Chinese scholars tried to improve China’s cultural status in the world. On the other hand, it is a clear narrative, which makes it a valuable addition to the literature on China’s culture from the late Qing Dynasty through the early Republic era. This book will rightfully be of interest to scholars engaged in scholarly community and ideology in China (1890s-1940s), and it is a worthy addition to the shelf of any individual interested in the evolution of China’s culture and scholarship in China (1890s-1940s)."
– Kai Chen, Xiamen University, in African and Asian Studies 17 (2018), p. 189-204.
Luo Zhitian, Ph.D. (1994), Princeton University, is the Distinguished Professor of History at Sichuan University and Professor of History at Peking University. He has published numerous monographs, edited volumes, and scholarly articles on Chinese history, including The Dream of Rebuilding Civilization: A Biography of Hu Shi (People's Publishing House, 1995).
Lane J. Harris, Ph.D. (2012), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Early Modern History, Frontiers of History in China, and Twentieth-Century China.
Mei Chun, Ph.D. (2005), in Chinese and Comparative Literature, Washington University in Saint Louis, is an independent scholar. Her publications include "'Garlic and Vinegar': The Narrative Significance of Verse in 'The Pearl Shirt Reencountered'" in Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews and The Novel and Theatrical Imagination in Early Modern China (Brill, 2011).
Lane J. Harris, Ph.D. (2012), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. His articles have appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Early Modern History, Frontiers of History in China, and Twentieth-Century China.
Mei Chun, Ph.D. (2005), in Chinese and Comparative Literature, Washington University in Saint Louis, is an independent scholar. Her publications include "'Garlic and Vinegar': The Narrative Significance of Verse in 'The Pearl Shirt Reencountered'" in Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews and The Novel and Theatrical Imagination in Early Modern China (Brill, 2011).