LIANG CH'I-CH'AO AND THE MIND OF MODERN CHINA por Levenson, Joseph R

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: Thames and Hudson, 1965. First edition (1953 - 'Harvard historical monographs' - XXVI). Second revised edition 1959. Joseph R. Levenson (1920-1969) was a scholar of Chinese history at the University of California, Berkeley. This is his first book, an expansive and insightful reworking of his Ph. D. dissertation on the important reform-minded intellectual Liang Qichao (1873-1929), who endeavored to move China along a gradualist path to democratic progress. Contents: I). 1873-1898: Metamorphosis. 1). Liang and the reform movement. 2). The breakdown of the Confucian world. II). 1898-1912: Brave new world. 3). Exile in Japan and the west. 4). The substitute for tradition. III). 1912-1929: Remembrance of things past. 5). With bibliography, glossary and index. XII + 256 pag. . Reprint of the 1959 edition. Cloth with dustjacket. Good copy.. 20cmx14,5cm.