This book, in eleven chapters and three appendices, is an accumulation of Lin’s under-nstanding of and investigation into the deficiency of Chinese traditional culture. The gist of itncan be traced back to 1979 when Lin wrote the essay, “The Entanglement of Intellectualismn(zhu zhi 主智), Beyond-intellectualism (chao zhi 超智), and Anti-intellectualism (fan zhi 反n智) in Chinese Political Tradition,” which is included in this book as Appendix 1, takingnissue with YU Yingshi’s 余英時 view in Yu’s “Anti-intellectualism and Chinese Tradition 反n智論與中國傳統.” To Lin, it is ambiguous for Yu to take Confucianism as intellectualism andnDaoism and Legalism as anti-intellectualism, to think that through the “Confucianism’sntending to Legalism 儒家法家化” the framework of Chinese political tradition was set, andneven to generalize Chinese political tradition as “anti-intellectualism.” Such tendency doesnexist. However, there is an entanglement of intellectualism, beyond-intellectualism, andnanti-intellectualism behind it.
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