Tradition

Chinese intellectualism

Overview

history of intellectualism in China

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He was able to make the able and virtuous distinguished, and thence proceeded to the love of the nine classes of his kindred, who all became harmonious. He also regulated and polished the people of his domain, who all became brightly intelligent. Finally, he united and harmonized the myriad States of the empire; and lo! the black-haired people were transformed.
Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China
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The Chinese people, from time immemorial, have been divided into four great classes, relative to the rank that men occupy in society, following the functions that they execute therein,[549] very nearly as do the Indians: but this division, that long custom has rendered purely political, is looked upon very differently by the philosophers. Man, according to them, constitutes one of the three productive powers which…
Antoine Fabre d'Olivet, The golden verses of Pythagoras
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In this way, the natural bloc of Social-Revolutionists and Mensheviki was created, which gave simultaneous expression to the political lukewarmness of the middle-class intellectuals and its relation of vassal to imperialistic liberalism.
Leon Trotsky, From October to Brest-Litovsk
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Philosophers who discussed Chinese intellectualism

Hu Shih

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Place in the tradition

Part of Maoism.

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