Abstract
During period of Wushu (1898) Hundred-Days Reform, modern Chinese philosophy stepped into stage of development characterized by growth and spread of theory of evolution and of humanism. Kang Youwei, Yan Fu, Tan Sitong, and Liang Qichao were representative figures of this stage. At time, with a tremendous flair for vivid and persuasive writing, young Liang Qichao broke through bonds of feudal autocracy with ideas of humanism, used liberty to oppose slavishness, and, by approaching exploration of meaning of the freedom of self from angle of new epistemology and new ethics, Liang played a major role and exerted a widespread influence on his countrymen in their intellectual emancipation. As he himself once said: It can be said of Liang Qichao that he was Chen She in new intellectual circles. [Chen She, alias Chen Sheng, famous rebel who started peasant uprising against Qin dynasty.—Trans.] Indeed, we may say that such a moniker w...
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