How Long to Read Liang Ch’i Ch’ao and the Mind of Modern China

How Long Does it Take to Read Liang Ch’i Ch’ao and the Mind of Modern China?

It takes the average reader 6 hours and 50 minutes to read Liang Ch’i Ch’ao and the Mind of Modern China by Joseph R. Levenson

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The distinction between “history” and “value” is the ground of this penetrating work. Liang Ch’i-ch’ao began writing in the 1890’s, as one who was straining against his tradition intellectually, seeing value elsewhere, but still emotionally tied to it, held by his history. How history contrived such a tension, how its release in Liang went together with the release of Confucian China from life, is the grand subject. And in drawing the times out of Liang’s intellectual life, Mr. Levenson contributes much of more general interest—a new understanding of the concepts of anachronism, analogy, contemporaneity, the generation, historical relativism, historical context, cultural and national identity, personal identity, and the distinction (crucial to comprehension of why ideas ever change) between “thinking” and “thought.” “A brilliant study of the life and work of an exceptional writer who shaped the political thought of modern China...Told with a humanist understanding far removed from the dry-as-dust manner usually ascribed to front-rank historians...this detailed account of a maker of modern China will interest not only the scholar in Far Eastern affairs, but will hold enthralled all students of the human mind in its never-ending quest for adjustment in a world of change.”—Asia Major “Why was the Confucian tradition found wanting? Why was westernization rejected? Why was Nationalism not enough for China? To these and many similar questions Liang’s life and writings provide the best answer. Mr. Levenson has interpreted them with real insight into the nature of Chinese civilization.”—Times Literary Supplement “Advances enough brilliant and challenging hypotheses to invigorate studies of Chinese intellectual history for a long time to come....[Levenson’s study] shows throughout a compassionate understanding of the harsh dilemmas, the bitter tragedies that the last century has brought to all Chinese.”—Arthur F. Wright

How long is Liang Ch’i Ch’ao and the Mind of Modern China?

Liang Ch’i Ch’ao and the Mind of Modern China by Joseph R. Levenson is 398 pages long, and a total of 102,684 words.

This makes it 134% the length of the average book. It also has 125% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Liang Ch’i Ch’ao and the Mind of Modern China Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 9 hours and 21 minutes to read Liang Ch’i Ch’ao and the Mind of Modern China aloud.

What Reading Level is Liang Ch’i Ch’ao and the Mind of Modern China?

Liang Ch’i Ch’ao and the Mind of Modern China is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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