Guy Alitto

University of Chicago | UC

The chapter discusses the complicated historical background of Zouping County, Shandong Province, China. It shows how historical factors influenced subsequent social, economic and political events and trends. Among them the rural reform efforts lead by Liang Shuming are highlighted, as well as rural prototypes.

This book describes how one local government in China has governed a much larger and vastly more complex market economy without any outward changes in the formal institutions of government. The chapters document the subtle but profound changes in the way that established governing bodies operate in practice. Drawing on local fieldwork conducted ove...

In 1921, at the high tide of the New Culture Movement’s iconoclastic attack on Confucius, Liang Shuming 梁漱溟 resonantly predicted that in fact the future world culture would be Confucian. In the following nine decades, Liang’s reputation and the fortunes of Confucianism in China have risen and fallen together. Is it possible that a reconstituted “Co...

“I am not purely a thinker. I am a practioner. I am someone who goes all out to do things. I’ve been in action for all that I am worth my whole life.” (Liang Shuming, address before the Academy of Chinese Culture, “Conference on the Academic Thought of Liang Shuming,” November 1987. This was his last public appearance before his death.)

This volume focuses on contemporary Confucianism, and collects essays by famous sinologists such as Guy Alitto, John Makeham, Tse-ki Hon and others. The content is divided into three sections – addressing the “theory” and “practice” of contemporary Confucianism, as well as how the two relate to each other – to provide readers a more meaningful unde...

The Crisis of Chinese Consciousness: Radical Antitraditionalism in the May Fourth Era. By Yü-shengLin. Foreword by Benjamin I. Schwartz. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1979, xiv, 201 pp. Bibliography, Character List, Index. $20.00. - Volume 39 Issue 1 - Guy S. Alitto

Yan Fu (1854–1921) was a pivotal Chinese thinker and translator of great influence in the intellectual history of China. He was responsible for introducing modern Western thought into China’s intellectual discourse through his translations, but Max Huang’s volume is no mere intellectual biography. In that he deals with a multitude of complex issues...

To the People: James Yen and Village China. By HayfordCharles W.. [New York: Columbia University Press, 1990. 304 pp. $48.50. ISBN 0 231 07204 X.] - Volume 135 - Guy Alitto

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Copyright © 1983 Society for Ch'ing Studies Project MUSE® - View Citation MLA APA Chicago Endnote Guy Alitto. "Ch'ing Local History Projects." Ch'ing-shih wen-t'i 5.1 (1984): 56-79. Project MUSE. Web. 26 Jan. 2013. <http://muse.jhu.edu/>. Alitto, G.(1984). Ch'ing Local History Pro...

China's Imperial Past: An Introduction to Chinese History and Culture. By HuckerCharles O.. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975. vii, 474 pp. Illustrations, Maps, Appendixes. $17.50 A History of China. By EberhardWolfram. 4th rev. ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977. xix, 388 pp. Notes and References, Index. $15.00 - Volume 37...

“Recently, amid clamor and cries of ‘rural bankruptcy’ and ‘rural collapse,’ the slogans ‘rural reconstruction’ and ‘rural revival’ reverberate through the entire nation; this is really a kind of sudden awakening of government and people.” Thus, the major chronicler of rural reform movements during the Republican period began his 1934 compendium. A...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1975. Bibliography: leaves 462-520.