Liang Qichao's Idea of Changes and Historian's Self-Consciousness:An Examination Centered on Li Hongzhang
Li Hongzhang is the achievement of Liang Qichao's idea of"new historiography"put into practice,and also an important specimen in the late-Qing intellectual history.Liang Qichao,according to the evolutionary view of history,based on the perspective of the"transitional era",discusses Li Hongzhang's life experience and his successes and failures,and reveals the historical changes in the era of"China of the world".The book embodies a new type of"historical wisdom"(shishi)and historian's self-awareness,reflecting Liang Qichao's inheritance and transcendence of the late Qing scholars'view of"turbulent situation"(bianju).Liang's work and related texts constitute a set of comprehensive and coherent discourses on modern Chinese history,which are of great significance and far-reaching influence on the construction of the scholarships of modern Chinese history in the 20th century.
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