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Thoughts from the Ice-Drinker's Studio Essays on China and the World
The essential writings of Chinaās first iconic modern intellectual, intent on reforming an entire nation, now published for the first time in Penguin Classics
A Penguin Classic
The power, anger, and fluency of Liang Qichaoās 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 eraāto 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 āice-drinkerās studio,ā implying that underneath his dispassionate, disabused, and rational tone lay an ardor and passion that only ice could cool. China could recover only through a clear-sighted, informed understanding of its enemiesāand by engaging in a thoroughgoing self-critique. Liang did not propose aping the West but taking only what China needed to ārenew the peopleā and create ānew citizens.ā Then China would be able to expel its invaders, reform its society, and become a great power once more.
This selection of pieces shows Liangās extraordinary range and the burning sense of mission that drove him on, attempting to galvanize and refresh an entire nation. Blending Confucianism, Buddhism, and the Western Enlightenment, Liangās 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.
A Penguin Classic
The power, anger, and fluency of Liang Qichaoās 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 eraāto 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 āice-drinkerās studio,ā implying that underneath his dispassionate, disabused, and rational tone lay an ardor and passion that only ice could cool. China could recover only through a clear-sighted, informed understanding of its enemiesāand by engaging in a thoroughgoing self-critique. Liang did not propose aping the West but taking only what China needed to ārenew the peopleā and create ānew citizens.ā Then China would be able to expel its invaders, reform its society, and become a great power once more.
This selection of pieces shows Liangās extraordinary range and the burning sense of mission that drove him on, attempting to galvanize and refresh an entire nation. Blending Confucianism, Buddhism, and the Western Enlightenment, Liangās 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.
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The essential writings of Chinaās first iconic modern intellectual, intent on reforming an entire nation, now published for the first time in Penguin Classics
A Penguin Classic
The power, anger, and fluency of Liang Qichaoās 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 eraāto 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 āice-drinkerās studio,ā implying that underneath his dispassionate, disabused, and rational tone lay an ardor and passion that only ice could cool. China could recover only through a clear-sighted, informed understanding of its enemiesāand by engaging in a thoroughgoing self-critique. Liang did not propose aping the West but taking only what China needed to ārenew the peopleā and create ānew citizens.ā Then China would be able to expel its invaders, reform its society, and become a great power once more.
This selection of pieces shows Liangās extraordinary range and the burning sense of mission that drove him on, attempting to galvanize and refresh an entire nation. Blending Confucianism, Buddhism, and the Western Enlightenment, Liangās 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.
A Penguin Classic
The power, anger, and fluency of Liang Qichaoās 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 eraāto 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 āice-drinkerās studio,ā implying that underneath his dispassionate, disabused, and rational tone lay an ardor and passion that only ice could cool. China could recover only through a clear-sighted, informed understanding of its enemiesāand by engaging in a thoroughgoing self-critique. Liang did not propose aping the West but taking only what China needed to ārenew the peopleā and create ānew citizens.ā Then China would be able to expel its invaders, reform its society, and become a great power once more.
This selection of pieces shows Liangās extraordinary range and the burning sense of mission that drove him on, attempting to galvanize and refresh an entire nation. Blending Confucianism, Buddhism, and the Western Enlightenment, Liangās 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.
