| Number 8 December 1991 |
Perspectives on the Twenty-First Century
4
Chinese Modernisation and Its Science and Technology
Zhou Kwang-zhau
6
The True Meaning of Liberty
Xiong Wei
7
To Compete Internationally in the Twenty-First Century
Mun Kin-chuk
10
Development, Progress and Peace
Xu Zhong-yu
China in the Past Century: Hu Shih and Modern Chinese Culture
15
The Historical Significance of the "Problem and Ideology" Debate
Lin Yu-sheng
21
To Rediscover the Reality behind the "Problem and Ideology" Debate
Li Lin
27
Transformation in the "Science and Metaphysics" Debate: the Cause of Liberty Lost
Yan Bo-fei
32
From Confrontation to Compromise: Limitations to the Debate on Civil Rights
Jiang Yi-hua
39
The Debate between Advocates of Wholesale Westernisation and of Indigenous Culture
Wang Zhong-jiang
46
The Dilemma between Democracy and Autocracy
Chou Chih-ping
50
Reflections on the Campaign of Criticising Hu-Shih during the Fifties
Hu Ming
58
Two Generations of Liberals: Hu-Shih and Yin Hai-guang
Zhang Qing
66
Notes on the Conference on "Hu-Shih and Modern Chinese Culture"
Books, Views and Thoughts
68
Cultural Relativism and Universalism
Daniel Kane
73
The Essence of Entrepreneurship
Zou Gang
76
A Review of Managing the Modern Chinese Railway
Leung Chi-keung
79
Notes on The Market Approach to Environmental Protection
R.W.C. Teng
From the Scientific World
83
Queen and Servant — on Number Theory and its Applications
Wang Yuan
View on the World
91
Giacometti — The Painter for Painters III
Szeto Lap
Humanities
102
Reflections on Civil Society
Wang Hsiao-guang
115
Innocent Hypocrisy: Paradox in Subcultural Morality as Reflected in Popular Literature
Zhao Yi-heng
Peripatetic Notes
130
Recollections of Xiong Shi-Li
Wang Yuan-hua
135
The Leisure Class and Their Sublime Ways of Combating Ennui
Zhu Da-ke
Criticism and Response
139
An Exegesis of "To Return to the Observance of the Rites through Overcoming the Self" — A Preliminary Review of the Methodology of Tu Wei-ming, a Modern Neo-Confucianist
Ho Ping-ti
148
From Being Surprised and Honoured to Being Puzzled and Confounded — A Preface to My Answer to Professor Ho Ping-ti
Tu Wei-ming
151
On "Farewell to Gods"
Wu Xiao-ming
Economics and Society
157
Problems in Attempting to Change from a Planned Economy to a Market Economy
Wang Yue-sheng
165
From the Editor’s Desk
166
Combined Table of Contents for Numbers 1–8 (1990–91)
170
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