Tang Xiaobing
The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, June 2025
About the book: 本书是一本另类的二十世纪中国思想史，以唐小兵教授与余英时、钱理群、杨国强、王汎森等名家的九场对话展开。他们以不同的关怀和角度，叩间二十世纪中国历史与思想的核心脉络：从科举到启蒙再到革命，从士人到知识人，由群众而大众······”汪洋恣意，酣畅淋漓，不仅呈现思想史研究者的学术视野和多元光谱，也藉对话的形式带入各人的生命体验，从而再现思想操练和知识生成的现场。
This is a book presenting an alternative intellectual history of China in the twentieth century through nine dialogues between Professor Tang Xiaobing and other prominent scholars including Yü Ying-shih, Qian Liqun, Yang Guoqiang, and Wang Fan-sen. They together, with diverse concerns and perspectives, probe the core threads of China’s history and thought in the twentieth century. China experienced the transformation from the imperial examination system to enlightenment and then to revolution, from scholar-officials to intellectuals, from the mass to the public. These free-flowing and impassioned dialogues not only present the academic horizons and pluralistic spectrums of intellectual history researchers but also, through the form of dialogue, incorporate each participant’s life experiences, thereby recapturing the scene of intellectual exercise and knowledge production.
About the author: Tang Xiaobing was a HYI Visiting Scholar from 2017-18.