From the hierarchical ren to egalitarianism

A case of cross‐cultural rhetorical mediation

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9236232
AutoresXiaosui Xiao (0000-0002-9346-3359, Hong Kong Baptist University, autor correspondente)
Ano1996
Volume82
Fascículo1
Páginas38-54
Data de publicação1996-02-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQuarterly Journal of Speech (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0033-5630 • E-ISSN: 1479-5779
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00335639609384139
OpenAlexW2015303103
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas14

A Study of Humanity (Ren), the first Chinese “manifesto of egalitarianism,” written by Tan Sitong in 1896–97, was one of the most important spiritual contributions to the republican movement toward the end of China's last imperial dynasty. This essay argues that the particular persuasiveness of its nontraditional egalitarian argument is explained by the writer's skills in exploiting the humanistic and organic ethos of Chinese tradition. This case reveals the interaction of rhetoric and culture. It shows how a dynamic process of rhetorical mediation led to change and also how the fundamental experience of Chinese culture remained intact as long as the Confucian organic world views remained operative in dictating the writer's choice of the appropriate channels, means, and modes of moderation

Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis) · Art · China · Egalitarianism · Ethos · Humanism · Humanity · Linguistics · Literature · Manifesto · Mediation · Moderation · Political science · Prerogative · Rhetoric · Rhetorical question · Social science · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Social Psychology