Title: Gu Hongming’s Particular Views on the History of Late Qing
Abstract: Gu Hongming’s conservative ideology derived from Romanticism that prevailed in Europe during the late 18 th century and the early 19 th century. In addition, he was loyal to Qing Dynasty, true to “Chinese Political Programme, Civilized Goal”, and therefore he got his own political mentality, historical mentality and cultural mentality. He took internal spirits of morality and external order and tranquility as criterion to comment upon historical events in late Qing Dynasty. His conclusion had many defects and few merits. To the problem of the conflict between China and the West, he defended state sovereignty and national honour and condemned the Great Powers of the West with scientific principles of international law from moral and cultural angles. And so there was the earliest attempt at “Opposing the West with Western Learning”. He also put forward his plan of Chinese development road in late Qing Dynasty. His conservative ideology was the first signs of “the Eastern Culture School” and “the New Confucianists of the Present Age”.
Publication Year: 2005
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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