| Number 18 August 1993 |
The Twenty-First Century Essays
4
"Autonomous Reforms" in Late Ching: A Gentleman's Dream
Zhu Wei-zheng
China: The Past Century
11
The Chinese Concept of Democracy in Transition: 1895-1925
Chang Hao
19
Ching Foreign Debt Controversies
Tang Wen-quan
29
The Move for a "Coalition Government" in the Forties: A Study of Its Political Failure
Zhang Xue-ji
Books, Views and Thoughts
40
Preface to Tsou Tang's Twentieth-Century Chinese Politics
Gan Yang
47
The Trinity of Liberty, Democracy and Pluralism
Liu Jun-ning
55
Why is Wittgenstein a Puritan?
Huan Xue-wen
View on the World
60
Reflections on the Road to Post-Modernism
Gao Ming-lu
From the Scientific World
69
The Quest for Precision: The Emergence of Intelligent Machine Tools
Wu Shien-ming
Humanities
83
The Significance of Qu Yuan for Contemporary Chinese Intellectuals
Karl-Heinz Pohl
93
Re-building Ontology and the Modernisation of Chinese Culture
You Xi-lin
101
The Transformation of Classical Epistemology and the Emergence of a New Textual Criticism in Early Ching
Gao Yuan
108
A Note on the Meaning and Function of Ideas
Torbjörn Lodén
Peripatetic Notes
114
Endless Complications and Unexpected Turns
Huang Ren-yu
119
After Euphoria: Modern Chinese Poetry Hanging on and Making Adjustments
Xie Mian
123
On Shamelessness
Shu Zhan
127
Subterranean Thoughts from the Back of Our Minds
Liu Xin-wu
Criticism and Response
130
Chinese "Hip" Culture: An Uneven Double-Edged Blade
Lu Shan
134
On Comparing Modern China and Japan
Gao Shen-peng
Economics and Society
138
The Dangerous "Carrier Rocket" for Economic Take-off: The Prussian-Tsarist Russian Model is No Answer for China
Bian Wu
149
On the Root Cause of the Malady of Socialist Economy?
Li Wei-sen
158
Tripartite Interactions
161
From the Editor’s Desk
162
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