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Liang Shu-ming and Chinese Communism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Wen-Shun Chi
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Abstract

In the name of thought reform in Mainland China, there have been many campaigns against the ideas of non-communist Chinese thinkers. For the scale and vehemence of the campaigns against them, two targets have been conspicuous: Hu Shih and Liang Shu-ming. The former was an exponent of western liberal ideas; the latter of Chinese traditional values. One must assume that the influence of their ideas was still strong in the minds of the Chinese people, since only this can explain such extensive and intensive criticism.

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The China Quarterly , Volume 41 , January 1970 , pp. 64 - 82
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 1970

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