Forthcoming Series: Library of Modern Chinese Thought

 

Series Editors: Martin Kern, Princeton University, Hui Wang, Tsinghua University, and Xiaoyu Xia, Princeton University

The series Library of Modern Chinese Thought provides a venue for scholarly translations of important works from Late Qing and Republican Period China. It is the only such series dedicated to modern Chinese intellectual history in any European language. It aims to introduce a wide audience of readers to the intellectual foundations of modern and contemporary Chinese thought following the collapse of the imperial state. The significance of these writings cannot be overestimated: grappling with the loss of traditional cultural and political identity as well as with the need to define China’s place in a global world of rivaling powers, the leading authors of early twentieth-century China created the intellectual trajectory of modern China and the broader Chinese-speaking world.

The individual volumes of the Library are in a bilingual format, with the English translation on the right facing the Chinese original text on the left. Each volume of concisely annotated translations opens with a substantial scholarly introduction and concludes with a bibliography for further reading. Works in the series are typically devoted to individual intellectuals from the first half of the twentieth century, but the Library also welcomes edited volumes of translations representing particular intellectual phenomena across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including history, philosophy, religion, literature, anthropology, archaeology, sociology, and politics.

In today’s period of intense global contestation, anyone interested in the question of modernity and the global order must take notice of Chinese modernity and its intellectual foundations. As such, the Library of Modern Chinese Thought is addressed to readers across all fields of the humanities and social sciences, from scholars and students to policymakers and philosophers.

ISSN: 3117-9088

Editorial Board

  • Hill, Michael Gibbs, William & Mary
  • Hu, Ying, University of California, Irvine
  • Huters, Theodore D., University of California at Los Angeles
  • Kowallis, Jon Eugene von, University of New South Wales
  • Lin, Shaoyang, University of Macao
  • Yang, Zhiyi, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
  • Ying, Lei, Amherst College
  • Zhou, Yiqun, Stanford University