{"id":9386,"date":"2022-03-24T00:27:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T16:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/?p=9386"},"modified":"2022-03-23T14:14:22","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T06:14:22","slug":"yan-fu-the-man-who-enlightened-china-with-his-pen-has-been-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/9386\/","title":{"rendered":"Yan Fu: The Man Who Enlightened China with His Pen has been published"},"content":{"rendered":"

This book is a biography of Yan Fu, arguably the most important thinker and translator in the modern Chinese enlightenment, based on more than thirty years of research. The title of this book, \u201cThe Man Who Enlightened China with His Pen,\u201d highlights the importance of Yan Fu\u2019s role in China\u2019s enlightenment. The book is organized around two major threads. First looks into Yan Fu\u2019s trajectory of life in contexts of his personality, marriage and family, and relationships with teachers and friends, and reflecting the turbulent times of the late Qing Dynasty and early Republican era. Second reconstructs Yan Fu\u2019s intellectual world, with particular attention to his translations, to show the characteristics of his political and economic thinking. The author attempts to provide a concise account of the challenges, setbacks, and achievements of Yan Fu as he \u201cjourneyed into the world\u201d from a broad historical perspective.<\/p>\n

In spite of his prominence, Yan\u2019s Fu lived a life full of difficulties, ranging from family changes, setbacks in official career, addiction to opium-smoking, and the conflicts between his theory and the reality. The author offers a rich and refined narrative of the unknown dimensions of this man of Chinese enlightenment. For the author, Yan Fu not only pioneered changes, but also consciously reflected on the Chinese cultural tradition. By an overviews Yan Fu\u2019s life and his intellectual achievements in context of modern Chinese intellectual history, this book sought for a in-depth understanding of the dilemmas of his era.<\/p>\n

Introduction: https:\/\/reurl.cc\/8WAdyo<\/a><\/p>\n

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This book is a biography of Yan Fu, arguably the most important thinker and translator in the modern Chinese enlightenment, based on more than thirty years of research. The title of this book, \u201cThe Man Who Enlightened China with His Pen,\u201d highlights the importance of Yan Fu\u2019s role in China\u2019s enlightenment. The book is organized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9389,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9386\/revisions\/9389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}