Chinese intellectualism | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 2019-01-14

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_intellectualism


00:00:58 1 Background
00:04:33 1.1 Cultural Revolution
00:05:51 2 Post-Mao Zedong development
00:10:26 2.1 Campaign against 'spiritual pollution'
00:14:34 2.2 "Ten Changes in Contemporary Chinese Economic Research"
00:18:08 3 See also



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The current status of Chinese intellectuals reflects traditions established in the imperial period. For most of this period, government officials were selected from among the literati on the basis of the Confucian civil service examination system. Intellectuals were both participants in and critics of the government. As Confucian scholars, they were torn between their loyalty to the emperor and their obligation to "correct wrong thinking" when they perceived it.
Then, as now, most intellectual and government leaders subscribed to the premise that ideological change was a prerequisite for political change. Historically, Chinese intellectuals rarely formed groups to oppose the established government. Rather, individual intellectuals or groups of intellectuals allied themselves with cliques within the government to lend support to the policies of that clique.