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American Humanism in the Context of Chinese Conservatism of the 1920s
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American Humanism in the Context of Chinese Conservatism of the 1920s
Annotation
PII
S013128120002697-7-1
DOI
10.31857/S013128120002697-7
Publication type
Article
Status
Published
Authors
Alexandr V. Lomanov 
ORCID: 0000-0003-2676-4271
Occupation: Chief Researcher
Affiliation: Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow
Edition
Issue 6
Pages
143-153
Abstract

The article is focused in the influences of the ideas of the new humanism by Irving Babbitt on the formation of Chinese cultural conservatism. Babbitt considered the humanistic teachings of Confucius and Aristotle as equally important components of world culture. He called for caution in the process of modernization of China in order to prevent the destruction of moral foundations of the Chinese tradition. Chinese students transformed these ideas into arguments in controversy with the New Culture Movement. The experience of the assimilation of the ideology of the new humanism by the followers of the Xueheng group refutes the thesis about the insulation of Chinese conservatism from external influences.

Keywords
China, West, modernization, tradition, Confucianism
Received
27.12.2018
Date of publication
28.12.2018
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2. Babbitt I. Rousseau and Romanticism. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1919.

3. Ibid. P. xix.

4. Ibid. P. 396.

5. Ibid. P. 398.

6. Babbitt I. Humanistic education in China and the West // Chinese Students’ Monthly. 1921. Vol. 17. No. 2. P. 85–91.

7. Ibid. P. 91.

8. Ibidem.

9. Babbitt I. Democracy and Leadership. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin. 1924. P. 158–185.

10. Ibid. P. 184.

11. Duan Junhui. Irving Babbitt’s Neo-humanism and Eastern Thoughts // Comparative Literature: East & West. 2007. Vol. 8. No. 1. P. 111–118.

12. Hon Tze-ki. The Allure of the Nation: The Cultural and Historical Debates in Late Qing and Republican China. Leiden — Boston: Brill, 2015. P. 117–118.

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15. Hon Tze-ki. Op. cit. P. 114.

16. Zhu Shoutong. Chinese Reactions to Babbitt: Admiration, Encumbrance, Vilification // Humanitas. 2004. Vol. 17. No. 1–2. P. 26–45.

17. Ibid. P. 32.

18. Bajbideh Chzhun Si zhehn'vehn' tszyaoyuj tan': [Razgovor Behbbita o gumanisticheskom obrazovanii v Kitae i na Zapade] // Syuehkhehn. 1922. № 3. S. 1–12.

19. Hon Tze-ki. Op. cit. P. 120.

20. Ibid. P. 124–125.

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