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Chinese Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949 Thomas Fröhlich and Axel Schneider - 978-90-04-42652-8 Downloaded from Brill.com11/21/2022 03:38:56PM via free access Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography Editors Axel Schneider Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik VOLUME 13 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/lsch Thomas Fröhlich and Axel Schneider - 978-90-04-42652-8 Downloaded from Brill.com11/21/2022 03:38:56PM via free access Chinese Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949 Edited by Thomas Fröhlich, University of Hamburg Axel Schneider, University of Göttingen LEIDEN | BOSTON Thomas Fröhlich and Axel Schneider - 978-90-04-42652-8 Downloaded from Brill.com11/21/2022 03:38:56PM via free access Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Fröhlich, Thomas, 1966- editor. | Schneider, Axel, editor. Title: Chinese visions of progress, 1895 to 1949 / by Thomas Fröhlich, Hamburg University ; Axel Schneider, University of Göttingen. Description: Leiden : Brill, [2020] | Series: Leiden series in comparative historiography, 1574-4493 ; volume 13 | Includes index. | Summary: “Chinese Visions of Progress, 1895 to 1949 offers a panoramic view of reflections on progress in modern China. Since the turn of the twentieth century, the discourses on progress shape Chinese understandings of modernity and its pitfalls. As this in-depth study shows, these discourses play a pivotal role in the fields of politics, society, culture, as well as philosophy, history, and literature. It is therefore no exaggeration to say that the Chinese ideas of progress, their often highly optimistic implications, but also the criticism of modernity they offered, opened the gateway for reflections on China’s past, its position in the present world, and its future course”— Provided by publisher. Identifiers: LCCN 2020003862 (print) | LCCN 2020003863 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004426535 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004426528 (e-book) Subjects: LCSH: China—Intellectual life—20th century. | Civilization, Modern—20th century—Philosophy. | Intellectuals—China—History—20th century. | China—Civilization—Western influences. | Progress. Classification: LCC DS775.2 .C4558 2020 (print) | LCC DS775.2 (ebook) | DDC 951.04—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020003862 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020003863 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN 1574-4493 ISBN 978-90-04-42653-5 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-42652-8 (e-book) Copyright 2020 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi, Brill Sense, Hotei Publishing, mentis Verlag, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink Verlag. 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Thomas Fröhlich and Axel Schneider - 978-90-04-42652-8 Downloaded from Brill.com11/21/2022 03:38:56PM via free access Contents Acknowledgments vii List of Contributors viii Introduction: Progress, History, and Time in Chinese Discourses after the 1890s 1 Thomas Fröhlich Part 1 Initial Conceptual Encounters 1 The Chinese Concept of “Progress” 43 Kai Vogelsang 2 The Progress of Civilization and Confucianism in Modern East Asia: Fukuzawa Yukichi and Different Forms of Enlightenment 75 Takahiro Nakajima Part 2 Tides of Optimism 3 The Idea of Progress in Modern China: the Case of Yan Fu 103 Li Qiang 4 Prospect Optimism in Modern China: the Formation of a Political Paradigm 132 Thomas Fröhlich 5 An Anatomy of the Utopian Impulse in Modern Chinese Political Thought, 1890–1940 165 Peter Zarrow 6 The Optimism of Cultural Construction in the 1930s: Wholesale Westernization, Cultural Unit Theory, and Cultural Construction on a Chinese Base 206 Leigh Jenco Thomas Fröhlich and Axel Schneider - 978-90-04-42652-8 Downloaded from Brill.com11/21/2022 03:38:56PM via free access vi Contents 7 Fantasizing Science: the Idea of Progress in Early Chinese Science Fiction (1905–1920) 230 Rui Kunze Part 3 Margins of Skepticism 8 Critiques of Progress: Reflections on Chinese Conservatism 263 Axel Schneider 9 Playing the Same Old Tricks: Lu Xun’s Reflections on Modernity in His Essay “Modern History” 292 Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik Index 319 Thomas Fröhlich and Axel Schneider - 978-90-04-42652-8 Downloaded from Brill.com11/21/2022 03:38:56PM via free access Acknowledgments We wish to thank the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research for funding the International Consortium for the Research in the Humanities: Fate, Freedom, and Prognostication. Strategies of Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe (at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg). Without the manifold support provided by the International Consortium, this volume would not have been published. The present book chapters, with the exception of the intro- duction and the chapter by Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, were presented twice at conferences held in Erlangen, and thereafter once again thoroughly revised. We are indebted to Jon Wilcox for English editing, and Magdalena Szpindler for editing and formatting the references, and we wish to thank two anony- mous peer reviewers whose comments have helped us a lot in preparing this volume for publication. Thomas Fröhlich and Axel Schneider - 978-90-04-42652-8 Downloaded from Brill.com11/21/2022 03:38:56PM via free access Contributors Thomas Fröhlich is Professor of Sinology at the University of Hamburg. He was Vice-Director of the International Consortium for the Research in the Humanities: Fate, Freedom, and Prognostication. Strategies of Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg). His research focuses on modern Chinese philosophy, political thought, and intellectual history. He has recently authored Tang Junyi. Confucian Philosophy and the Challenge of Modernity (Brill, 2017). Rui Kunze is currently a DFG-funded research fellow at the University of Erlangen- Nuremberg. Her research interests lie in Chinese literature and cultural history since the late 19th century. She is the author of Struggle and Symbiosis: The Canonization of the Poet Haizi and Cultural Discourses in Contemporary China (projektverlag, 2012). Li Qiang currently is Professor of Political Science at Peking University, China. His main areas of teaching and research are political philosophy, modern Western liber- alism, and political thought in late 19th and earlier 20th century China. Leigh Jenco is Professor of Political Theory at the London School of Economics and asso- ciate editor of the American Political Science Review. She is the editor, most recently, of the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Political Theory (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) and author of Changing Referents: Learning Across Space and Time in China and the West (Oxford University Press, 2015). Takahiro Nakajima is currently Professor of Chinese Philosophy at the University of Tokyo. He is now Vice-Director of the East Asian Academy for New Liberal Arts (University of Tokyo) and Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Asian Studies (Cambridge University Press). His research interests focus on Chinese phi- losophy, Japanese philosophy and comparative philosophy. He has recently authored Language qua Thought (Iwanami, 2017). Thomas Fröhlich and Axel Schneider - 978-90-04-42652-8 Downloaded from Brill.com11/21/2022 03:38:56PM via free access Contributors ix Axel Schneider currently is Professor of Modern Sinology at the University of Göttingen. He was founding director of the Centre of Modern East Asian Studies at said uni- versity. His research interests cover modern Chinese intellectual history, and the history of historiography and historical thinking in China. Kai Vogelsang is Professor of Sinology at the University of Hamburg and co-editor of the jour- nal Oriens Extremus. He has published widely on Chinese culture and history, focussing especially on historical semantics of pre-Qin and late Qing China. His latest monograph is Shangjun shu: Schriften des Fürsten von Shang, 2017. Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik is Professor of Sinology at the University of Vienna since 2002, specialized on Chinese historiography, PRC history, East Asian History, and memory issues related to WW II in East Asia, the Great Famine, and the Cultural Revolution. Researching Lu Xun has accompanied the above-mentioned research from its very beginning. Peter Zarrow is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. His research focuses primarily on modern Chinese intellectual and cultural history; his most recent monograph is Educating China: Knowledge, Society, and Textbooks in a Modernizing World, 1902–1937 (2015). Zarrow’s current project is a comparative examination of national heritage in Europe and Asia. Thomas Fröhlich and Axel Schneider - 978-90-04-42652-8 Downloaded from Brill.com11/21/2022 03:38:56PM via free access Thomas Fröhlich and Axel Schneider - 978-90-04-42652-8 Downloaded from Brill.com11/21/2022 03:38:56PM via free access
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