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The Interactionistic Epistemology of Chang Tung-Sun East Asian History NUMBER 3 . JUNE 1992 THE CONTINUATION OF Pa pers on Far Eastern History Institute of Advanced Studies Australian National University Editor Geremie Barme Assistant Editor Helen 1.0 Editorial Board John Clark Igor de Rachewiltz Mark Elvin (Convenor) Helen Hardacre John Fincher Colin Jeffcott W.J.F. Jenner 1.0 Hui-min Gavan McCormack David Marr Tessa Morris-Suzuki Michael Underdown Business Manager Marion Weeks Production Oahn Collins & Samson Rivers Design Maureen MacKenzie, Em Squared Typographic Design Printed by Goanna Print, Fyshwick, ACT This is the second issue of EastAsian Historyin the series previously entitled Papers on Far Eastern History. The journal is published twice a year. Contributions to The Editor, EastAsian History Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific Studies Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2600, Australia Phone +61-6-2493140 Fax +61-6-2571893 Subscription Enquiries Subscription Manager, East Asian History, at the above address Annual Subscription Rates Australia A$45 Overseas US$45 (for two issues) iii CONTENTS 1 Politics and Power in the Tokugawa Period Dani V. Botsman 33 Shanghai Before Nationalism YeXiaoqing 53 'The Luck of a Chinaman' : Images of the Chinese in Popular Australian Sayings LachlanStr ahan 77 The Interactionistic Epistemology ofChang Tung-sun Yap Key-chong 121 Deconstructing Japan' Amino Yoshthtko-translated by Gavan McCormack iv Cover calligraphy Yan Zhenqing ���Il/I, Tang calligrapher and statesman Cover illustration Kazai*" -a punishment for arson Sasama Yoshihiko ,*rm��, Zusetsu Edono shihOlkeisatsu jiten [;RJIDtU.f'q) 1lJ�¥�r* lI! [An illustrated guide to the justice/police system of the Edo period) (Tokyo: Hanawa Shooo, 1980), p.242 CULTURE-BOUND REALITY: THE INTERACTIONISTIC EPISTEMOLOGY OF CHANG TUNG-SUN � Yap Key-chong j€�� I. CHANG TIJNG-SUN: A SKETCH Chang Tung-sun **� (1886-1972),1 though he never visited the West, The author gratefully acknowledges the was probably the best informed and most original modem Westernized' helpful comments and suggestions of Geremie Banne, Mark Elvin and LoHui-min. Chinese thinker.2 But if his name is well-known to students of Chinese I Reports differ on Chang's dates. It has politics before the ascendancy of the Communists, not so his philosophical been variously claimed that he was oornin contribution. The present sketch does not pretend to meethis claim that "to 1883, 1884, 1886, 1887,or 1889, and died in study the thought of thinkers is the next bestway of studying the main trends 1962, 1972, 19730r 1976. of the time";3what is attempted here is merely a tracing in broad outline of 2 See, for example, Chan Wing-tsit, trans. and comp., A source book in Cbinese pbi­ a few cardinal points of Chang's life and some salient features of his major losopby (Princeton: Princeton University work, in order to put his achievement in the field of epistemology in its Press, 1%3), p.744. historical context. 3 Chang Tung-sun, "Hsiu-mu che-hsueh yu Coming from a prominent Chekiang family with a long scholarly trad­ hsien-tai ssu-ch'ao " [Hume's philosophyand ition, he received a solid grounding in the Chinese classics under the the trend of modern thoughtl, in his Hsin cbe-bsueb lun-ts'ung [Collected essays on guidance of his elder brother, the famous scholar Chang Erh-t'ien �mEE.4 new philosophyl, reprint ed. (Taipei:Tien­ In 1904, then in his late teens, Chang's disposition and penchant for hua Ch'u-pan-she, 1979), p.390 (hereafter philosophy was awakened by reading the Ma bdyanasraddbotpiida­ cited as Collected essays); idem, " Chih-shih she-hui-hsueh yu che-hsueh" [The sociol­ {astra and Surangama sUtra.5 A year later, in 1905, he became a lay ogy of knowledge and philosophyl, Yen­ Buddhist and went to Japan, where he studied Buddhism, Western cbiu yu cbib- pu [Forsehungen und Fort­ philosophy and psychology,6 thethree subjects which were to become the sehriltel 4 (1940): 4; cf. Bertrand Russell, principal, though by no meanseasily compatible, ingredients of his thought. preface to History of western pbilosophy It was in Tokyo that he came into close contact with Liang Ch'i-ch'ao, (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1955), p.7. 4 HowardL. Boorman,ed., Biograpbicaldic- probably fOrming, like many of Chang's acquaintances and friends, a master­ tionary of Republican Cbina, 5 vols (N ew diSCiple relationship with him.7Of his contemporaries there, Carsun Chang Yolk: Columbia University Press, 1971), 1:129. 77 78 YAP KEY-CHONG 5 In the preface to his Collected essa)l,5, whom he met at a lecture given by the Buddhist Master Ti-hsien �r.., in Chang gave the year as 18 and the Buddhist 8 Tokyo, deserves special mention. A <ymradeship developed between the texts as Surangamasiitra, while later, in his two as close as that of twin brothers, with a shared concern for social and �u-hsiangyushe-hui[Thoughtand society] (Shanghai: Shang-wu Yin-shu-kuan, 1946), political causes and a cornmon interest in philosophy.9 he gavethe year as16 and the Buddhist texts On his return to China, Chang took up journalism. In 1910, he edited as here. liang Ch'i-ch'ao's last constitutional magazine, Kuo-jenghsun-k'an rmBa 6 Boorman, RepublicanChina, voLl, p.l29. -tufU (National Spirit), published in Shanghai. It is noteworthy that Chang Chang Tung-sun, "Ch'u-shih £/m-hsiang yu had by this time declared himselfa 'pragmatist' after writing an articleentitled hsi-yang che-hsueh " [Other-worldly thought and Westernphilosophy], in Colle ctedess a)l,5, "An Essay on Truth," though he was above all concerned with the problem p.403. For his education in Japan, see also ofmoral regenerationin China and its relation to socialand political reform. 10 Kuo-wenchou-pao [NationalNews Weekly He took part in the revolution of 1911, and in December that year served as (Tientsin)] 10, no.6 (1933); Yang Chia-lo, a secretary in the Ministry of the Interior in Sun Yat-sen's Provisional Min-kuo min-fen t'u-chien [Pictorial biog­ raphies of famous Republican Chinese] Government in Nanking; when the latter reorganized the Revolutionary (Shanghai: 1937), vol.5, p.l36; Who'swhoin League into the Kuomintang in August 1912, Chang, typically, alone of all communist China (Hong Kong: Union Re­ the former personnel of the dissolved Nanking government declined to search Institute, n.d.), p.38; Who'swho in accept membership of it. 11 fact, he was to become one of the most China: biographies oj Chineseleaders, 5th In ed. (Shanghai: Chinese Weekly Review, important critics of the KMT, especially after 1928. 1936),p.16; O. Briere,FiftyyearsoJ Chinese On returning to journalism in 1912, he became editor of the Ta -kung-ho philosophy: 1�1950, trans. L. G. Thomp­ jih-pao *�lO8 fit (Great Republican Daily) in Shanghai, then in 1913 an son(London: George Allen & Unwin, 1956), p.67; and Chan, Chinese philosophy, p.744. editor ofthe new publication Yung-yen a§"(Justice) 12 in Tientsin. He was 7 Among those in Liang's entourage were a prolific writer on the political, constitutional and parliamentary problems Fan Yuan-lien fli.�., Hsu Fo-ssu l*aU, of the time,dealing in particular with their moral and social implications. He Chang Chia-sen �A� (Carsun Chang), was soon to realize that active participation in political discussionswas futile LanKung-wuti�JIt, P'uTien-chun ri��, in the absence of a profound social revolution, expressing, as early as 1913, Wang Chia-hsiang.:E*W,Ch'en Kuo-hsiang his disappointment that the latter had not occurred. in essence, social IIJIiilf.'f, Ch'en Han-ti IliJllm, Chiang Fang­ revolution had, for him, become a precondition as well as the objective of chen KnIt and probably Chang Tung­ sun. SeeJ. Andrew Nathan, Pekingpol ilics, political revolution. 13 Such views were to bring Chang into conflict with the 1918-1923 (Berkeley: University of Cali­ advocatesof revolutionary socialismafter the May Fourth movement of 1919, fornia Press, 1976), p.241. when Chinese intellectuals in general became radicalized. 8 Chang Chiin-mai, "Chang Tung-sun hsien­ In an article entitled "An Interpretation of 'Rightness'" in Cheng-i iEiii sheng pa-shih-shou hsu' [Preface (on the (Rightness), Chang stressed the point that rightness, public-spiritedness and occasion of) Chang Tung-sun's eightieth birthday], Ts ai-sheng [National renaissance a sense of justice were prerequisites for self-realization and the fulfilment of (Taipei)] 1, no.2 (1970): 29. 'Carsun Chang' one's obligations without impinging on others' rights, and were what was is the English transliteration by which Chang required ifsociety was to be revitalized and politics reformed.1 4 Chia-shen (1886-1969) is best known to Westerners,as he is to his compatriotsby his The concept of justice, like those of reason, personality, equality, tzu, Chiin-mai t!1I»J. Having studied for democracy, and liberty or freedom, was to be a permanent element in sometime in Germany,he becamsea founder Chang's thought, though in the early Republican years he was more and the leader of the Kuo-chia she-hui tang interested in its contributions to China's emergence as a modemstate which 1II**Htawhich, under the English title of Nationalist Socialist Party, generated much he regarded throughout his life as a prerequisite for China's survival in the unfortunate confusion with that of Germany "forest of nations. ·15 in the Nazi period. When Confucianism, seen as the ideology behind the imperial attempts 9 The depth of their relationship can beseen ofYuan Shih-k'ai in 1916 and ofChang Hsiin in 1917, became the target of in the will Chang composed nearly four iconoclastic attacks by emergent radical elements, Chang was not among decades later during his imprisonment in the Sino-JapaneseWar in 1943.
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