A Hundred Years of Loneliness: Twelve Essays on Modern Chinese Intellectuals
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Rong Hong, Liang Qichao, Cai Yuanpei, Hu Shi, Ding Wenjiang, Fu Sinian, Yan Shutang, Chen Hansheng, Wen Yiduo, Zhang Shenfu, Qu Qiubai, Feng Yingzi, these twelve modern Chinese intellectuals are like stars in the historical galaxy. The lonely stars; their life experiences are connected in series from the Opium War, the Westernization Movement, the Reform Movement, the Revolution of 1911, the warlords' chaos, the Anti-Japanese War, the Civil War between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, and the vicissitudes of the century after 1949. Learning from barbarians and developing skills, Mr. De and Mr. Sai, the New Culture Movement, sorting out the national heritage, the debate between science and mystery, democracy and dictatorship, scholarship and political inquiry, the connection between tradition and modernity... Between the ups and downs of the Ming Dynasty and the Republic of China, what they show is the spiritual history of Chinese intellectuals for more than a hundred years since the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.
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