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  title info:
    title: Thoughts fom the ice-drinker's studio
    sub title: essays on China and the world
  title info:
    title: Essays. Selections English
  name:
    name part: Liang, Qichao
    name part: 1873-1929
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Zarrow, Peter Gue
    role:
      role term: translator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: essay
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  language:
    language term: chi
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 241 pages ; 20 cm.
  abstract: The power, anger and fluency of Liang Qichao's writings make him one of the towering figures in modern Chinese literature. He saw his great, almost unmanageable task as an attempt to write China into the new era, to provide an ancient country, devastated by civil war and foreign predators, with the intellectual equipment to renew itself. Liang said that he wrote from an 'ice-drinker's studio,' implying that underneath his dispassionate, disabused and rational tone lay an ardor and passion which only ice could cool. China could only recover through a clear-sighted, informed understanding of its enemies and by engaging in a thorough-going self-critique. Liang did not propose aping the West but taking only what China needed to 'renew the people' and create 'new citizens.' Then China would be able to expel its invaders, reform its society and become a great power once more. This selection of pieces shows Liang's extraordinary range and the burning sense of mission which drove him on, attempting to galvanize and refresh an entire nation. Blending together Confucianism, Buddhism and the Western Enlightenment, Liang's ideas about nation, democracy, and morality had a profound impact on Chinese visions of the political order, though the China that eventually emerged from the further disasters of the 1930s and 1940s would be a very different one.
  note: Liang Qichao ; translated with an introduction and notes by Peter Zarrow.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Liang, Qichao
      name part: 1873-1929
    genre: Translations into English
  classification: PL2781.A5 A2 2023
  classification: 895.145
  identifier: 0241568781
  identifier: 9780241568781
  identifier: 9781802060140
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 230209
    record change date: 20241011144605.9
    record identifier: in00005503585