Xiao hui wang biography of mahatma
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A Nehruvian in China, Caravan
The first Chinese intellectual I knew of was named Fei Xiaotong. The year was 1980, and inom was beginning a doctoral grad in sociology in Kolkata. The city was hostile to my discipline, largely because its intellectual culture was Marxist-dominated and Maoist-infested. Those who read Marxism mechanically allowed that the disciplines of history, economics, and political science had a place in scholarly enquiry. For Marx spoken often of the practice of ‘political economy’; whereas his acolyte Engels defined his mentor’s method as that of ‘the materialist interpretation of history’. On the other hand, Marx never spoke, so far as anyone in stad i indien knew, of ‘sociology’ or ‘anthropology’. Meanwhile, Mao Zedong (a figure much admired among intellectuals in Kolkata) had condemned both sociology and anthropology as reactionary bourgeois disciplines.
My teacher at the time, a lovely and gentle man named Anjan Ghosh, was both a sociologist and a Marxist. Seeking
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Xu Beihong
Chinese painter (1895–1953)
In this kinesisk name, the family name fryst vatten Xu.
Xu Beihong (Chinese: 徐悲鴻; Wade–Giles: Hsü Pei-hung; 19 July 1895 – 26 September 1953), also known as Ju Péon, was a Chinese painter.[1]
He was primarily known for his Chinese ink paintings of horses and birds and was one of the first Chinese artists to articulate the need for artistic expressions that reflected a modern China at the beginning of the 20th century. He was also regarded as one of the first to create monumental oil paintings with epic Chinese themes – a show of his high proficiency in an essential Western art technique.[2] He was one of the four pioneers of Chinese modern art who earned the title of "The Four Great Academy Presidents".[3]
Biography
[edit]Xu was born on 19 July 1895 in Yixing, Jiangsu, during the late Qing dynasty. He began studying classic Chinese works, beginning with calligraphy at the age of six, and Chinese pa
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Mahatma Gandhi
By Shang Quanyu*
Abstract
The early interest in Mahatma Gandhi in mainland China began in early 1920s when Gandhi launched the first all India non-violent non-cooperation movement in 1920-1922. Since then up to present day Chinese interest in Gandhi has undergone several stages. This paper focuses on the first two decades of the third stage from early 1980s to late 1990s, from both a synchronical and diachronical perspective to uncover its courses, contexts, themes and features.
Introduction
Gandhi studies worldwide has been growing in both quantity and quality with the passage of time. The impressive body of works on Mahatma Gandhi produced so far include over 800 books, covering nearly all aspects of his life, deciphering every dimension of his mind, whether his religious views, his non violence, ‘Satyagraha’ strategy, his asceticism, or even his “fads” and foibles. The early interest in Gandhi in mainland China began in early 1920s.