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Vol. 77
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1029-4740
Date：
2012-9
Softcover：250 TWD
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176
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Abstract：
This issue contains keynote speech: " May Fourth and the Communist Revolution: The Radicalization of Modern Chinese Thought", byChang Hao; three articles: " A Recurring Dilemma: U.S. Policy and the 1958 Taiwan Straits Crisis Reconsidered", byChang Su-Ya; " Old Documents, New Identities: The Siku Quanshu and Cultural Politics in Republican China", by Lin Chih-hung; " Civic Virtue in A Secular Age: Cultural Identity and National Loyalty—A Study on the Public Ethics of Chinese Intellectuals during the May Fourth Period", by Duan Lian. Book Reviews：“Viren Murthy, The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness”by Wong Young-tsu;“Hsiao-ting Lin, Modern China’s Ethnic Frontiers: A Journey to the West” by Joseph Lawson;“Ezra F. Vogel, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China Maurice Meisner, The Deng Xiaoping Era: An Inquiry into the Fate of Chinese Socialism, 1978-1994”by Chen Yao-huang; “Chiou-ling Yeh, Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco’s Chinatown”by Kuo Mei-fen。
Contents
Keynote Speech
May Fourth and the Communist Revolution: The Radicalization of Modern Chinese Thought
Chang Hao
PDF
1
Articles
A Recurring Dilemma: U.S. Policy and the 1958 Taiwan Straits Crisis Reconsidered
[Abstract]
Chang Su-Ya
PDF
17
This paper has one central concern: why did the U.S. policy dilemma regarding the Chinese offshore islands recur only three years after the first Taiwan Straits crisis of 1954-1955? Consensus has it that in attempting to involve the U.S. in a war with Communist China to realize his dream of returning to the mainland, Chiang Kai-shek deliberately increased the garrison of the offshore islands after the first crisis. Thus, the U.S. was forced to commit itself to use nuclear weapons for the defense of these islands to prevent the domino effects from their loss. But official documents reveal that U.S. policymakers did not solve the offshore islands problem after the 1955 crisis because they did not consider it necessary after having successfully deterred China’s attack. They were also constantly preoccupied with crises all over the world, and preferred the status quo to forcing China to accept a final resolution. The U.S. thus assumed a default position of massive retaliation, making plans for using nuclear weapons to offset an all out Communist attack on the offshore islands. But after the shelling began, Washington tried desperately to avoid implementing these plans. The heart of the U.S. policy dilemma, then, was unwilling to yield any territory to the Communists while lacking sufficient resources to carry this policy out. In a word, the policy dilemma was general, rather than particular to the offshore islands issue.
Keyword
：Taiwan Straits crisis, U.S. policy toward Taiwan, massive retaliation, nuclear deterrence, new look
Old Documents, New Identities: The Siku Quanshu and Cultural Politics in Republican China
[Abstract]
Lin Chih-hung
PDF
61
The compilation of The Complete Library in Four Treasuries (Siku Quanshu, SKQS) was one of the most important intellectual and cultural activities of the Qing dynasty. The significance of this enormous compliation was not limited to the Qing dynasty, but remained central to Republican China. Originally a symbol of imperial glory, the SKQS become an item of national heritage. This article first outlines the process from documents to publication in which the SKQS lost its original sacred significance. Second, it discusses the politics of the publishing industry in a time of nationalism and war, during which publication of the SKQS contributed to national identity. Third, this article analyses the effect of knowledge professionalization in the process of state-building in the 1933 publication of the SKQS. Finally, SKQS is linked directly to the relationship between war and nationalism in strengthening Chinese national identity. The history of the SKQS in the Republican era was integral to China’s transformation into a nation-state.
Keyword
：The Siku Quanshu, Commercial Press, Yuan Tongli, Jiang Fucong, national identity
Civic Virtue in A Secular Age: Cultural Identity and National Loyalty—A Study on the Public Ethics of Chinese Intellectuals during the May Fourth Period
[Abstract]
Duan Lian
PDF
101
Emerging at a key moment in the “transitional period” in modern Chinese intellectual history, May Fourth intellectuals forged a particular kind of morality centered on utilitarianism and individualism. However, due to the collapse of traditional moral transcendence, divergences in this new morality also eroded the political stability of the Republic of China. How could the Republic create a new collective identity as its ethical foundation? This question became one of the central issues in the May Fourth period. This article focuses on the dialogue between tradition and modernity on public ethics in the May Fourth period. Conservatives such as Du Yaquan, Wu Mi, and Liang Ji confirmed that even in the age of pluralism, Confucian ethics still had value as a legacy of Chinese culture and identity. On the other hand, republicans such as Zhang Shizhao and Li Dazhao felt that the constitution and democracy must form the basis of the Republic, while patriotism could serve as the source of civic virtue. Chinese intellectuals of the May Fourth period thus examined the interactions between morality and ethics, individual and nation, and “good” and “right” in ways distinct from the history of secularization in the West, shaping a unique form of intellectual modernity in China.
Keyword
：secular age, civic virtue, Confucian ethics, patriotism
Book Reviews
Viren Murthy,
The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan: The Resistance of Consciousness
Wong Young-tsu
PDF
147
Hsiao-ting Lin,
Modern China’s Ethnic Frontiers: A Journey to the West
Joseph Lawson
PDF
159
Ezra F. Vogel,
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China Maurice Meisner, The Deng Xiaoping Era: An Inquiry into the Fate of Chinese Socialism, 1978-1994
Chen Yao-huang
PDF
163
Chiou-ling Yeh,
Making an American Festival: Chinese New Year in San Francisco’s Chinatown
Kuo Mei-fen
PDF
171
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