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"Fu Ssu-nien, Chinese scholar, educator, and political and social critic, was one of the most colorful and influential intellectual figures in twentieth-century China. Wang Fan-sen's biography of Fu's extraordinary life and contributions offers the first in-depth examination and serious recognition of his role in the intellectual and educational development in modern China. Fu's life, spanning five decades of tumultuous political change in China, in many ways embodies the dilemma faced by modern Chinese intellectuals; dissatisfied with the model of the traditional literati, they lacked a professional, academic model to take its place. Fu's early years as a student leader of the May Fourth Movement and subsequent life as an activist were born of intellectual dissatisfaction; as an educator and as founder of the Institute of Philology and History at Peking University and the Academia Sinica, he worked to fill the void by professionalizing Chinese research and education. Wang traces Fu's leading role in cultivating modern Chinese academe and, in particular, his efforts to establish a 'modern' historical discipline with an emphasis on objective analysis of primary sources. He also tell

Author

Wang, Fan-sen

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9780521030472