Inheritance Within Rupture : Culture and Scholarship in Early Twentieth Century China.

Intro -- Contents -- Series Editors' Foreword -- Preface -- Historical Continuities -- Inheritance in the Anti-Traditional Turn -- The Complete Negativization of Tradition -- About This Work -- Chapter 1 Turning Heterodoxy into Orthodoxy: The Historical Transitions Manifested by the Boxer Incident of 1900 -- Intellectual Competitors and Allies in Social Categorization -- 'What Confucius Doesn't Talk About': The Post-Boxer Shift from Heterodoxy to Orthodoxy -- Chapter 2 Confucianism, Non-Canonical Classical Philosophers, and the Yellow Emperor in National Learning: Late Qing Scholars and the Search for Symbols of National Identity -- The Rise of the Study of Non-Canonical Classical Philosophers and the Struggle with Confucianism -- Confucius and the Yellow Emperor: Contending Symbols of National Identity -- An All-Encompassing National Learning -- Chapter 3 The Dream of a Chinese Renaissance: From the Late Qing "Revival of Ancient Studies" to the Republican "New Tide" -- The Revival of Ancient Studies in the Late Qing -- The Renaissance and Interpreting Qing Scholarship -- Additional Thoughts -- Chapter 4 Into the Museum: The Removal of 'the Ancient' from 'the Modern' by Scholars Pursuing 'the New' in the Late Qing and Early Republic -- Its Origin in the Late Qing -- Its Development in the Early Republic -- The Antiquated 'Heritage' and the Real 'Nation' -- Chapter 5 Reading and Tradition: The Evolution of an On-Going Concern among Late Qing and Early Republican Scholars -- Reducing to the Minimum: Preserving Tradition through Simplification -- Stretching the Concept of 'Using the New to Preserve the Old' in the Late Qing -- The Early Republican Discussion of What Study-Abroad Students Should Read -- Study Abroad and Tradition.

Chapter 6 Rejuvenating the Old to Better Understand the New: 'Historical Perspective' in the Late Qing and Early Republic -- Perfecting the Old through Daily Renovation -- Weeding Through the Old to Bring Forth the New and Rejuvenating the Old to Better Understand the New -- Chapter 7 Exploring the Historical Relationship between Scholarship and Thought: Late Qing and Early Republican Intellectual Debates on 'National Learning' -- Intellectual History and the History of Scholarship -- Intellectual Debates about National Essence, National Heritage, and National Learning in the Late Qing and Early Republic -- Chapter 8 'Mr. Science's Turn Towards National Learning and History: An Example of "Science" as Seen by the Chinese Public during the May Fourth Period -- "Science," Learning, and Techniques in Modern China -- How Did Science Turn Towards Reorganizing National Heritage? -- The Rise of Historical Materialism after the Turn from National Learning to History -- Chapter 9 The Voicelessness of Literature: Reorganizing National Heritage and Evidence-based Research on Literature -- Was the Vernacular the Mainstream of Chinese Literary History? -- Europeanization, Classicization, and Popularization: Trends in the Vernacular -- The Breakthroughs and Inheritances of The New Redology in the Context of the Literary Revolution -- When Ritual is Lost in the Capital, Seek It in the Country: Modern Expressions of Tradition -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 10 The Rise of Materialism: A Trend in Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture -- 'Material Essence' and 'Cultural Essence' in Late Qing Intellectual Discourse -- Visible and Invisible: From the 'Spiritual' to the 'Technological' in Science -- Culture is also National Power: The Spread of Utilitarianism in Society and Oppositional Efforts -- Appendix: List of Names -- Bibliography -- Index.

Luo Zhitian's Inheritance within Rupture is a multi-faceted exploration of how Chinese scholars understood modernity and tradition, historical ruptures and cultural continuties in the late Qing and early Republic (1890s-1940s).

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