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...book that emerged from his dissertation, Levenson addressed a problem that became one of the main intellectual themes of his subsequent work. The book, Liang Ch'i-ch'ao and the Mind of Modern China, examined the life and though of Liang (1873-1929) as a lens through which to view "what his milieu expected of him and could offer him." In his role as intellectual historian, Levenson viewed himself as far more than a recorder of Liang's stated thoughts...
From the ways that Liang though while the traditional culture of Imperial China crumbled about him, from the constructions he put on thoughts that had been expressed in other times or places, Levenson hoped to extract insights on the dilemmas faced when cultures clash. When he stated the thesis of his work in his introduction, Levenson set up the dialectic that expressed those dilemmas as dynamic forces withing the individual and his society...
...crisis came when a moribund Confucianism found its links to the realities around those who treasured it becoming more and more tattered. And for Levenson, the record of Liang's attempts to reconcile his intellectual alienation with his emotional bonds to Confucianism was the record of the death of that tradition...
...Before we make any recommendations, we wanted to gain an understanding of the basics involved in minority admissions," Jake Liang '80, another committee member, said yesterday...
Ballesteros supplied the Open with an international flavor lacking since Taiwanese pro Lu Liang Huan labeled as "Mr. Lu" became a gallery favorite in 1971 while finishing second. With an uncanny knack for getting the ball up and down from around the green, Ballesteros during his final round of 74 succeeded in "defying the percentages" as Miller later put it, repeatedly extricating himself after slapping shots into Birkdale's yawning bunkers and unyielding willow scrub rough...