Series Editor
LI He
Merrimack College
USA
E-mail: lih@merrimack.edu
Advisors
HUA Shiping (University of Louisville, USA)
E-mail: shiping.hua@louisville.edu
HUANG Xiaoming (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
E-mail: Xiaoming.Huang@vuw.ac.nz
LO Yuet Keung (National University of Singapore)
E-mail: chsloyk@nus.edu.sg
Even before the Opium War, Chinese thinkers were grappling with social and political problems, such as the rights of the people, gender equality, and transfer of political power. They drew on their cultural and intellectual heritage, to re-interpret it and adapt it in the light of the needs of the time. The advent of Opium War and subsequent humiliation by the invading foreign powers heightened the importance and urgency to answer such questions. With influx of foreign domination came also Western ideas. Should China modernize in order to impede foreign aggressors? If so, how? Should China follow Japan by going for whole-sale Westernization? Issues of identity, national survival, regaining power and wealth, industrialization, social justice, cultural heritage, etc emerged. This series provides readers with readable texts recounting and explaining the thoughts and activities of eminent representatives of the Chinese intellectuals who struggled to resolve the challenges of foreign domination, national weaknesses, economic backwardness, industrialization, social justice, gender equality, economic modernization, etc. The accounts are not only relevant for those who wish to have a better understanding of tussle in the world of ideas, which offers a deeper knowledge of contemporary China; they also offer useful insights for thinkers in other countries which are in the painful process of modernization.
Examples of modern Chinese thinkers which we would like to publish are:
顾炎武, 黄宗羲, 王夫子, 康有为, 梁启超, 章太炎, 梁漱溟, 郑观应, 龚自珍, 魏源, 曾国藩, 张之洞, 严复, 孙中山, 胡适, 辜鸿铭, 鲁迅
Call for Book Proposals
We invite scholars, teachers and researchers to publish books in the above topics. Book proposals can be sent to either the Series Editor or the in-house World Scientific editor Dr Heng Siam-Heng, email: shheng@wspc.com.
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