Idea of the Citizen: Chinese Intellectuals and the People, 1890-1920: Chinese Intellectuals and the People, 1890-1920

While much attention has been focused on the rise of the modern Chinese nation, little or none has been directed at the emergence of ＂citizenry＂. This book examines thinkers from the period 1890-1920 in modern China, and shows how China might forge a modern society with a political citizenry.

Joshua A. Fogel is professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His most recent book is The Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of China, 1862--1945 (Stanford, 1996). Professor Fogel is currently a visiting professor at Kyoto University, where he is working on Chinese views of Japan in the Ming-Qing period. Peter Zarrow teaches in the School of History at the University of New South Wales. He is the author of Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture (Columbia, 1990); his Twentieth-Century China: An Interpretive History is forthcoming. The focus of Dr. Zarrow’s current research is the cultural and philosophical aspects of the fall of the Chinese monarchy in the early twentieth century.