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July 2022
Lecture Series 2021/2022 New Perspectives on Modernity in China
From Mentorship to Comradeship: Irving Babbitt, The Critical Review, and Conservative Globalism in Republic China Speaker: Kuo Ya-pei (Assistant Professor, Center for International Relations Research, University of Groningen) Content: Since the late 19th century, the “East vs West” dichotomy has been the predominant framework for understanding Chinese civilization and its place in the world. This talk focuses on The Critical Review (Xueheng 學衡), a “conservative” platform launched in 1922, and its effort to overcome this dichotomy. As many modern scholars…
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