Yasu Gongshang 雅俗共赏 (Appreciated By All): Richard J. Smith’s Ardent Engagement with Chinese Culture

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1 See, for example, James Hevia, Cherishing Men from Afar: Qing Guest Ritual and the Macartney Embassy of 1793 (Duke University Press, 1995); Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton University Press, 2000); Benjamin Elman, On Their Own Terms: Science in China, 1550–1900 (Harvard University Press, 2005); Evelyn Rawski, Education and Popular Literacy in Ch’ing China (University of Michigan Press, 1979); James Lee and Feng Wang, One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700–2000 (Harvard University Press, 2001); and William Rowe, Saving the World: Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century China (Stanford University Press, 2001).

2 See, for example, Lu Hanchao, “Xifang changsheng Zhongguo: Meiguo Zhongguo xue yanjiu zhong de lishi fan’an wenti” (The West sings China’s praises: Issues concerning revisionist views in American studies of Chinese history), in Wang Xi and Yao Ping (eds.), Discovering History in America (Beijing: Peking University Press, 2010), 221–38, and “Changsheng Zhongguo: lishi yanxu wenti he xifang xuejie de dangdai Zhongguo chonggu” (Singing China’s praises: On issues regarding historical continuity and the Western academic trend of reevaluating contemporary China), China Studies Quarterly, no. 6 (November 2015): 17–32.

3 For a systematic discussion of Needham’s claim, see Richard J. Smith, “Needham and the Yijing,” Inference, Vol. 6, no. 4 (March, 2022), https://inference-review.com/letter/needham-and-the-yijing.

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Hanchao Lu

Hanchao Lu is Professor of History at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Director of the China Research Center in Atlanta.