Year
1921.11.07
Text
Letter from Xu Zhimo to Bertrand Russell. 7.11.1921.
C[harles] K[ay] Ogden planed to publish a World philosophy series, in which Hu Shi's Zhongguo zhe xue shi da gang 中國哲學史大綱 [Outlines of the history of Chinese philosophy] was to be included upon Russell's proposal. The project of Ogden did not materialize.
Xu did not agree with Russell :
"The author [Hu Shi] is too much concerned with combatting his predecessors on points which are not likely to interest the Western readers not well-informed in this field ; in the second place, it is too bulky, the first volume alone amounting to four hundred pages.
It occurs to me [that] the best man for our purpose is Mr. Liang Qichao (the man who gave you that piece of painting) who, as you probably know, is one of the very most learned scholars and probably the most powerful and lucid writer China has ever produced. His continual effort of emancipating Chinese thought and introducing and popularizing Western ideas is worthy of our great admiration. His power of assimilating and discriminating learning has never been equaled. So it would be simply ideal if we could get him to do the job, and that I think more than possible. If you would just kindly write to him, urging him to produce a standard book on Chinese thought and indicating the general character of the Series, it would be, I have no doubt, a tremendous spur to his amazing creative energy and he would be more than pleased to comply with the request. There could be no better arrangement than this."
Mentioned People (3)
Subjects
Philosophy : Europe : Great Britain
Documents (1)
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Year |
Bibliographical Data |
Type / Abbreviation |
Linked Data |
1
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1980
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Leung, Gaylord Kai-loh. Hsu Chih-mo and Bertrand Russell. In : Renditions, vol. 14 (1980). [Xu Zhimo].
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Publication /
Russ45
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Source:
Xu, Zhimo. Luosu you e ji shu hou. In : Gai zao ; vol. 3, no 10 (1921). [Postscript to Bertrand Russell's 'The practice and theory of Bolshevism'].
羅素遊俄記書後
(Russ254,
Publication)
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Source:
Xu, Zhimo. Luosu yü Zhongguo. In : Chen bao fu kan ; 3. Dez. (1922). [Bertrand Russell and China].
羅素與中國
(Russ255,
Publication)
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Source:
Xu, Zhimo. Luosu you lai shuo hua le. (1923). [Artikel über 'Leisure and mechanism' von Bertrand Russell. In : Dial ; vol. 75 (Augs. 1923)].
羅素又來說話了
(Russ278,
Publication)
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Source:
Xu, Zhimo. Luosu yu you zhi jiao yu. In : Chen bao fu kan ; 10. Mai (1926).[Russell and child education].
羅素與幼稚教育
(Russ279,
Publication)
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Source:
Xu, Zhimo. Luosu yu you zhi jiao yu. In : Chen bao fu kan ; 10. Mai (1926). [Artikel über On education von Bertrand Russell].
羅素與幼稚教育質疑與答問
(Russ280,
Publication)
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Source:
Zhang, Shenfu. Guanyu Luosu. In : Qing hua zhou kan ; May 1 (1931). [Artikel über Bertrand Russell].
(Russ281,
Publication)
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Cited
by: Asien-Orient-Institut Universität Zürich
(AOI,
Organisation)
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Person:
Russell, Bertrand
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Person:
Xu, Zhimo
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