The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan

Murthy, Viren

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“…It is practised resistance, but unlike that driven by totalitarian ideologies -and holism ultimately is one such ideology, points to Zhang's fundamental insight 'that transforming our world involves a transformation of both subjectivity and objectivity'. 77 The continued presence of non-modern practices like Chinese medicine in the modern world invariably brings us face to face with precisely the questions that Zhang Taiyan sought to resolve. They have not yet been rendered obsolete as tradition, nor have they been completely assimilated to the modern.…”

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“…His goal was to present a radical critique of the hegemonic value judgements embodied in both the dominant Chinese tradition, with its track record of oppression enacted through the rewriting of history, and that of modernist universalism in all its imperialist destructivity. Focusing on his philosophical and political writings, biographers like Viren Murty unfortunately interpret Zhang's efforts as ultimately leading him into a nihilist cul-de-sac, 74 for what he apparently advocates is the pursuit of an embodied transcendence that negates the world, time and history altogether but leaves little scope for concrete political action.…”

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Holism, Chinese Medicine and Systems Ideologies: Rewriting the Past to Imagine the Future

Scheid¹

2018

Edinburgh University Press

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This chapter explores the articulations that have emerged over the last half century between various types of holism, Chinese medicine and systems biology. Given the discipline’s historical attachments to a definition of ‘medicine’ that rather narrowly refers to biomedicine as developed in Europe and the US from the eighteenth century onwards, the medical humanities are not the most obvious starting point for such an inquiry. At the same time, they do offer one advantage over neighbouring disciplines like medical history, anthropology or science and technology studies for someone like myself, a clinician as well as a historian and anthropologist: their strong commitment to the objective of facilitating better medical practice. This promise furthermore links to the wider project of critique, which, in Max Horkheimer’s definition of the term, aims at change and emancipation in order ‘to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them’. If we take the critical medical humanities as explicitly affirming this shared objective and responsibility, extending the discipline’s traditional gaze is not a burden but becomes, in fact, an obligation.

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Holism, Chinese Medicine and Systems Ideologies: Rewriting the Past to Imagine the Future

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2018

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“…For the same reason the constitutional monarchy also did not appeal to Cheung Bin-ling. It the principle of national representation existing in all existing forms of government -a cornerstone of all western democracies that did not satisfy him (Murthy, 2011).…”

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“…Cheung Bin-ling denied the idea of public representation as a whole. In his opinion, parliamentarism contradicts to principles of nationalism and national prosperity as "any law established from above serves the government, any law established from below serves people prosperity", and, therefore, the parliament will adopt laws, taking into consideration first of all their own interests (Murthy, 2011).…”

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Two Models of Traditionalism in China at the Beginning of the XX Century: Kang Yu-Wei and Cheung Bin-ling

Martynov¹

2015

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The urgency of a studied problem consists in need of research of traditionalist roots for modern Chinese ideology. At its sources two radical thinkers of the beginning of the XX century -Caen Yu-vey and Cheung Bin-ling are put. The article is devoted to comparative comparison of models of the traditionalism offered by radical Chinese thinkers of China both of whom passed the way from political reformism to conservatism. The leading method to research of this problem is the comparative method applied in a wide historical context of so-called "transitive period". In the article it is shown that at the beginning of the XX century there was a radical erosion of a traditional picture of the world which demanded some kind of radical reorganization of a universe in public consciousness. Both Kahn Yu-wei and Cheung Bin-ling were based on humanitarian potential of the Chinese civilization, but offered absolutely different ways of realization of the ideal. The materials of the article can be useful to political scientists, sociologists and the historians who are taking up the problems of evolution of public consciousness and formation of public consciousness.

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Intellectual History and Global History

Sartori¹

2015

A Companion to Intellectual History

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The Political Philosophy of Zhang Taiyan

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Holism, Chinese Medicine and Systems Ideologies: Rewriting the Past to Imagine the Future

Holism, Chinese Medicine and Systems Ideologies: Rewriting the Past to Imagine the Future

Two Models of Traditionalism in China at the Beginning of the XX Century: Kang Yu-Wei and Cheung Bin-ling

Intellectual History and Global History

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