Concept
Jin Guantao
Overview
Jin Guantao (Chinese: 金观涛; born 1947) is a Chinese scholar who is currently the chair professor of the Department of Chinese Literature at the National Chengchi University in Taiwan. Jin was an influential figure in the New Enlightenment movement in the 1980s in mainland China, creating the Towards the Future Book Series with Bao Zunxin and others in 1984. In 1990, he founded the academic journal Twenty-First Century with his wife Liu Qingfeng at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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One statement is that so far as the people of China are concerned there is no real division on geographical lines, but only the common division occurring everywhere between conservatives and progressives. The other is that instead of two divisions in China, there are at least five, two parties in both the north and south, and another in the central or Yangtse region,[3] each one of the five splitting up again more…
John Dewey, China, Japan and the U.S.A.
Close in meaning to Jin Guantao; the term itself is not named.
Although there have been many wars in China, the natural outlook of the Chinese is very pacifistic. I do not know of any other country where a poet would have chosen, as Po-Chui did in one of the poems translated by Mr.
Bertrand Russell, The Problem of China
Close in meaning to Jin Guantao; the term itself is not named.
Those who haven't are sort of helpless, practically; the height of literary and academic minds. Those who have studied abroad, even in Japan, have much more go to them. Certainly the classicists in education have a noble example here in China of what their style of education can do if only kept up long enough. On the other hand, there must be something esthetically very fine in the old Chinese literature; even many…
John Dewey, Letters from China and Japan
Close in meaning to Jin Guantao; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- Taiwan
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of California
- United States
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Mainland China
- Confucianism
- Routledge
Place in the tradition
Part of Mohism.