The formation of modern concepts of “civilization” and “culture” and their application during the late Qing and early Republican times
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23239305 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Huang Xingtao (Renmin University of China, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-26 |
| Publication date | 2011-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Modern Chinese History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1753-5654 • E-ISSN: 1753-5662 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17535654.2011.578400 |
| OpenAlex | W2022147747 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
In the historical context of the late Qing and early Republican period, the traditional Chinese concepts of “civilization” and “culture” generally experienced the following changes: these concepts at first shed their neglect of material, economic, and military content and developed a new concept of “civilization” in the modern sense which included the idea of evolution, that is to say the modern concept of “culture” in a broad sense. Then these concepts went through another process in which they partially, from a different angle, rediscovered the key components of the traditional “civilization” and “culture” of China, in opposition to “militarized” and “materialized” concepts. In this way they were able to regain some new intellectual resources and to reestablish a new concept of “culture” in a narrow sense. Finally, a modern concept of “culture” was born, with a contradictory structure in which the contents of both a broad and a narrow sense coexisted at the same time. The process of formation and evolution of two such important modern concepts, at the same time, reflects how the modern Chinese applied these new concepts in their social reforms and practice. During the Hundred-Day Reform of the late nineteenth century, the modern concept of “civilization” began to spread among members of the literati, bringing along with it a whole series of concepts dominated by modern values that would unavoidably become the ideological basis on which the reforms could be put into comprehensive practice. Meanwhile the concept of “culture” in a narrow sense appeared to merge with its counterpart in a broader sense and had an impact on the early development of the future May Fourth New Culture Movement.
Aesthetics · Archaeology · China · Civilization · Cornerstone · Epistemology · Ideology · Merge (version control) · Opposition (politics) · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Chinese history and philosophy · Computer Science · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.57 |
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| Citation span | 2019 - 2022 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |