How Long to Read Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio

How Long Does it Take to Read Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 58 minutes to read Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio by Liang Qichao

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

Description

'China's first iconic modern intellectual. His lucid and prolific writings, touching on all major concerns in his own time and anticipating many in the future, inspired several generations of thinkers' Pankaj Mishra 'A country does not become corrupt and weak overnight. Rather, we are now reaping the evil harvest of what previous generations sowed.' The power, anger and fluency of Liang Qichao's writings make him one of the towering figures in modern Chinese literature. He saw his great, almost unmanageable task as an attempt to write China into the new era - to provide an ancient country, devastated by civil war and foreign predators, with the intellectual equipment to renew itself. Liang said that he wrote from an 'ice-drinker's studio', implying that underneath his dispassionate, disabused and rational tone lay an ardour and passion which only ice could cool. China could only recover through a clear-sighted, informed understanding of its enemies - and by engaging in a thorough-going self-critique. Liang did not propose aping the West but taking only what China needed to 'renew the people' and create 'new citizens'. Then China would be able to expel its invaders, reform its society and become a great power once more. This selection of pieces shows Liang's extraordinary range and the burning sense of mission which drove him on, attempting to galvanize and refresh an entire nation. Blending together Confucianism, Buddhism and the Western Enlightenment, Liang's ideas about nation, democracy, and morality had a profound impact on Chinese visions of the political order, though the China that eventually emerged from the further disasters of the 1930s and 1940s would be a very different one.

How long is Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio?

Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio by Liang Qichao is 175 pages long, and a total of 44,625 words.

This makes it 59% the length of the average book. It also has 55% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 3 minutes to read Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio aloud.

What Reading Level is Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio?

Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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