Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio

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Essays on China and the World

By Liang Qichao

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Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio by Liang Qichao offers a captivating exploration of classical Chinese art and culture through the lens of personal reflection. Liang Qichao delves into aesthetics, philosophy, and the transformative power of art, providing insightful observations that bridge historical traditions with modern interpretations. This reflective piece invites readers to ponder the timeless influence of culture and creativity.
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You might enjoy this book if you're fascinated by the intersection of philosophy and art, as Liang Qichao expertly weaves personal reflections with cultural insights. This work offers a unique perspective on the aesthetic and intellectual challenges faced by artists and thinkers, making it a compelling read for those interested in arts and culture.

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Daring essays on democracy, history and the nation state by one of China's leading twentieth-century intellectuals.

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. China could only recover through a clear-sighted, informed understanding of its enemies - and by engaging in a thorough-going self-critique. Then China would be able to expel its invaders, reform its society and become a great power once more.

Liang said that he wrote from an ice-drinker's studio, implying that underneath his dispassionate tone lay an ardour and passion which only ice could cool. This selection of pieces shows Liang's extraordinary range and the burning sense of mission which drove him on. 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.

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Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio by Liang Qichao is celebrated for its clarity and extensive influence on modern Chinese thought. The author's insightful and prophetic writings have profoundly inspired numerous generations, including notable figures such as Mao Zedong.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241568781

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 October 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

Translated by Peter Zarrow
Introduction by Peter Zarrow
Notes by Peter Zarrow
Translated by Peter Zarrow
Introduction by Peter Zarrow
Notes by Peter Zarrow

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 202g

Pages: 272

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About the Author

Liang Qichao (1873-1929) was a reformist intellectual, who facing brutal repression fled to Japan where he lived for fourteen years. His long exile, travels and writing - of fiction, journalism and above all essays - gave Liang a unique authority in the first years of the twentieth century. Peter Zarrow is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut and Adjunct Research Fellow at the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica. He has held teaching and research positions in Australia and Taiwan, and he has published extensively in English and Chinese on the intellectual and cultural history of China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.