Book Talk - Peter Zarrow, _Abolishing Boundaries: Global Utopias in the Formation of Modern Chinese Political Thought, 1880-1940_, Wednesday November 10 12:15-1:15 EST (Zoom)
Focusing on four key Chinese intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century, Abolishing Boundaries offers new perspectives on modern Chinese political thought. These four intellectuals—Kang Youwei, Cai Yuanpei, Chen Duxiu, and Hu Shi—were deeply familiar with the Confucian and Buddhist classical texts, while also interested in the West’s utopian literature of the late nineteenth century as well as Kant and the neo-Kantians, Marxists, and John Dewey and new liberalism, respectively.
