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Beginning of Chinese Sociology

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It is precisely because sociology has the essential characteristics of relativity that Chinese sociology developed under certain historical conditions cannot be attributed only to the introduction and dissemination of Western sociology.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Qichao (1989).

  2. 2.

    Xirui (1959).

  3. 3.

    Fanglu (2004).

  4. 4.

    Cai Fanglu. Zhu Xi's Confucian Classics and Chinese Confucian Classics, p. 128.

  5. 5.

    Xi (1995).

  6. 6.

    Cheng and Shu (2004).

  7. 7.

    Er Cheng Yi Shu Vol. 2. Feng Youlan. New History of Chinese Philosophy Vol. 2, p. 115.

  8. 8.

    Cai Fanglu. Zhu Xi's Confucian Classics and Chinese Confucian Classics, pp. 149–152.

  9. 9.

    Jiuyuan (1980).

  10. 10.

    Jiuyuan (1982).

  11. 11.

    Wang Yangming. A Letter to Wang Chunfu 2. Editor-in-Chief Chen Qingkun. A History of Chinese Philosophy, p. 449.

  12. 12.

    Yangming (1982).

  13. 13.

    Xi (1982).

  14. 14.

    Shuming (2000).

  15. 15.

    Hui (2004).

  16. 16.

    Fei Xiaotong. On the Enlargement of Traditional Boundary of Sociology, China Sociology Yearbook (1999–2002), p. 16.

  17. 17.

    Marcuse (1993, p. 229).

  18. 18.

    Marcuse (1993, p. 166).

  19. 19.

    Collected Works of Marx and Engels (1995). 2nd Ed. Vol.1, pp. 54, 56. Beijing: People's Publishing House.

  20. 20.

    Herbert Marcuse. Reason and Revolution, p. 248.

  21. 21.

    Comte. On Positive Spirit, p. 43.

  22. 22.

    Comte. On Positive Spirit, pp. 52–53.

  23. 23.

    Durkheim. The Rules of Sociological Method, p. 7.

  24. 24.

    Comte. On Positive Spirit, p. 51.

  25. 25.

    Fei Xiaotong. From the Soil, The Institutions for Reproduction, p. 94.

  26. 26.

    Comte. On Positive Spirit, p. 32.

  27. 27.

    Qichao (1996).

  28. 28.

    Liang Qichao. Academic History of China in Recent 300 Years, p. 74.

  29. 29.

    Wang Guowei. Preface to Mr. Shen Yi'an at the Age of Seventy Years, Book 4 Guantang Jilin of Posthumous Writings of Wang Guowei, Vol. 23.

  30. 30.

    Mengxi (1996).

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    Wang Guowei. Preface to Mr. Shen Yi'an at the Age of Seventy Years, Book 4 Guantang Jilin of Posthumous Writings of Wang Guowei, Vol. 23.

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    Liu Mengxi. Chinese Modern Academic Classics· General Preface, pp. 24–25.

  33. 33.

    Qichao (2004).

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    Liu Mengxi. Chinese Modern Academic Classics · General Preface, p. 22.

  35. 35.

    Yabin (2001).

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    Comte. On Positive Spirit, p. 12.

  37. 37.

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Liu, S. (2020). Beginning of Chinese Sociology. In: Origin and Expansion of Chinese Sociology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3094-4_2

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