Ding, Wenjiang

Ting, V.K. [Ding Wenjiang]. Letter to Peking Leader ; 5. Aug, 1921.
Ting wrote that Bertrand Russell had made a 'profound' impression on those who heard his lectures on psychology, mathematics, and physics, 'for they realized for the first time that philosophy is nothing but the synthetic results of all the sciences and Mr. Russell's ideas of social reconstruction were the outcome of mature thinking. Ting implied that 'superficial' men, such as journalists, who were not prepared for, nor interested in, such technical lectures, erroneously concluded that others could not have found Russell of interest. He interpreted Russell's 'Farwell speech' as a clear mandate to the Chinese intellectual minority to be responsible for the reconstruction of China.

Furth, Charlotte. Ting Wen-chiang : an intellectual under the Chinese republic. (Palo Alto, Calif. : Stanford University, 1965 ; Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1966). Diss. Stanford Univ., 1965. [Ding Wenjiang].

[Furth, Charlotte]. Ding Wenjiang : ke xue yu Zhongguo xin wen hua. Fei Xiali zhu ; Ding Zilin, Jiang Yijian, Yang Zhao yi ; Yang Zhaoming jiao. (Changsha : Huanan ke xue ji shu chu ban she, 1987). Übersetzung von Furth, Charlotte. Ting Wen-chiang : science and China's new culture. (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1970). (Harvard East Asian series ; vol. 42).
丁文江 : 科学与中国新文化