The Intellectual Foundations of Chinese Modernity: Cultural and Political Thought in the Republican EraIn the early twentieth century, China was on the brink of change. Different ideologies those of radicalism, conservatism, liberalism, and social democracy were much debated in political and intellectual circles. Whereas previous works have analyzed these trends in isolation, Edmund S. K. Fung shows how they related to one another and how intellectuals in China engaged according to their cultural and political persuasions. The author argues that it is