Idea of the Citizen: Chinese Intellectuals and the People, 1890-1920: Chinese Intellectuals and the People, 1890-1920

by Fogel, Joshua A.; Zarrow, Peter Gue

• ISBN13: 9780765600981
• ISBN10: 0765600986
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-07-31
• Publisher: M E Sharpe Inc

Summary

Chinese (mainland and Taiwan), European, Japanese, Canadian, and North American scholars address a subject of increasing interest in modern Chinese and world history: the emergence of a modern citizenry. While much attention has focused to date on the rise of the modern Chinese nation, little or none has been directed at the important concomitant element of a politically active "citizenry" and what that might mean in a Chinese context. After a detailed introduction by the editors on this theme in Western and East Asian theory and practice, each essay examines a thinker or group of thinkers from the crucial transition period in modern China, 1890-1920, and assesses their views on how China might forge a modern society with a participatory political citizenry.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Introduction: Citizenship in China and the West	3	(36)
Peter Zarrow
1. Civic Associations, Political Parties, and the Cultivation of Citizenship Consciousness in Modern China	39	(22)
Liu Zehua
Liu Jianqing
2. Nationalism, Citizenship, and the Old Text New Text Controversy in Late Nineteenth Century China	61	(21)
Anne Cheng
3. The People, People's Rights, and Rebellion: The Development of Tan Sitong's Political Thought	82	(31)
Ingo Schafer
4. Dynasty, State, and Society: The Case of Modern China	113	(29)
Murata Yujiro
5. From Civil Society to Party Government: Models of the Citizen's Role in the Late Qing	142	(23)
Don C. Price
6. Publicists and Populists: Including the Common People in the Late Qing New Citizen Ideal	165	(18)
Joan Judge
7. Local Self-Government: Citizenship Consciousness and the Political Participation of the New Gentry-Merchants in the Late Qing	183	(29)
Ma Xiaoquan
8. Imagining "Society" in Early Twentieth-Century China	212	(20)
Michael Tsin
9. Liang Qichao and the Notion of Civil Society in Republican China	232	(26)
Peter Zarrow
10. Evolving Prescriptions for Social Life in the Late Qing and Early Republic: From Qunxue to Society	258	(21)
Wang Fan-shen
Afterword: The People, a Citizenry, Modern China	279	(4)
Joshua A. Fogel
Glossary of Chinese Characters	283	(18)
Index	301