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Zhao Laoda and the Modern Age

Text by Robin Peckham Modernity and modernism are fraught concepts in written Chinese. Most mainland writers, trained as they are in “harmonious scientific development” or what have you, tend to use the term xiandai, which carries a mixture of California ideology optimism and pseudo-scientific pretense. The great debates about modernization and Westernization are carried out [...]