Liang Shuming
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Liang Shuming (1893-1988) was a reformer in the late Qing and early Republican eras of Chinese history. He believed that reform was needed to make China equal to the rest of the world. However, he did not advocate for complete reform and adoption of Western institutions. It was his view that the required prerequisites for these institutions did not exist in China, so they would not succeed if introduced. Instead, he pushed for change to socialism starting at the grassroots level. To this end, he founded the Shandong Rural Reconstruction Institute and helped to found the Democratic League. After World War II, he mediated disputes between the Communist and Nationalist parties. After the victory of the Communists in 1949, he was occasionally persecuted in ideological campaigns, but refused to admit any error.
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de Bary, Wm. Theodore, ed. Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume II (Second Edition). New York: Columbia, 2000.
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