title: LIU RENHANG AND HERBERT G. WELLS
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metadata.value: Martynov, Dmitry
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metadata.value: 2022-03-15T11:47:13Z
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metadata.value: 2022-03-15T11:47:13Z
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metadata.value: 2021-12
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/9785288062049.30
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/35725
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metadata.value: Liu Renhang (1885–1938) was known as a Shanghai publicist and propagandist
  of Buddhism, vegetarianism and non-violence. Having been educated in Japan, he
  could not establish relations with Zhang Xun and Yan Xishan. He made a long journey
  to India and Indochina, talked with Rabindranath Tagore. In the 1920s and 1930s, Liu
  Renhang published over 30 books, mostly translated from Japanese and English. He
  published translations of L. N. Tolstoy’s short stories, books on hydrotherapy and yoga,
  and founded the Institute for the Cultivation of Joy in Shanghai (乐天 修养 馆). The main
  work of his life was Dongfang Datong Xuean in 6 juan, the creation of which was carried
  out in 1918–1924. The treatise was fully published in Shanghai in 1926, and was
  reprinted in 1991 and 2014. Its main content was to consider the classical ideals of
  Xiaokang and Datong, and the possibility of combining ideals with the realities of the modern world. Liu Renhang believed that the ideal of Datong Confucius and Kang Yuwei
  is fully compatible with Buddhist teachings. During the fifth session of the Central
  Election Commission of the Kuomintang of the fourth convocation (1934), he tried to
  announce at the meeting a petition on the introduction of the principle of Great Unity in
  international relations. In 1938, he created the utopian commune Datong in his native
  village, and tried to interest Zhou Enlai and Dong Biu with his theories. In the Dongfang
  Datong Xuean treatise, Liu Renhang introduced the “history of the future”, which was
  influenced by H. G. Wells’ globalist and Fabian ideas. Liu Renhang directly referred to
  his novel The War in the Air in conclusion to his own treatise. Like Wells, Liu looked with
  pessimism on the prospects of modern mankind, and called for the emergence of a
  “modern Genghis Khan”, who would ruin the world, on the ashes of which the sprout of
  a new Great Unity would rise.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference "Issues of Far Eastern Literatures (IFEL 2021)";Volume 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Utopia
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: global peace
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Great Unity (Datong)
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Liu Renhang
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metadata.value: H. G. Wells
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metadata.value: LIU RENHANG AND HERBERT G. WELLS
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metadata.value: Article
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