Posts Tagged: Late Qing

Liang Qichao

Liang Qichao’s writings midwifed the birth of a new way of thinking about the Chinese language, and his thinking became the  foundation of Chinese politics in the twentieth century. Though not as famous as some of those later thinkers who stood on his shoulders, like Lu Xun, he is arguably more influential.   http://traffic.libsyn.com/chineseliteraturepodcast/Liang_Qichao.mp3

That’s One Weird Utopia: Kang Youwei’s “Book of Great Unity”

There were a lot of texts dealing with reform in the late Qing (1895-1911), but few of them were more radical, or more bizarre, than Kang Youwei’s Book of Great Unity (《大同书》). The venerable linguist and Confucian scholar advocated a future utopia in which not only would governments and international commerce no longer exist, but even species […]