Solidly researched,The Conceptual History ofHumanism in Mod China中国“人文主义”的概念史is an innovative and comprehensive study of the history of the humanism as a concept in mod China.The author has taken great pains to produce an excellent piece of work on such a difficult subject.The term “humanism,”often referred to as renwen zhuyi人文主义,rendao zhuyi人道主义,or renben zhuyi人本主义in Chinese writings,is one of the most significant and fluid concepts in modem Chinese intellectual history.Some leading scholars in early twentieth-century China debated the exact meanings and translations of humanism,especially in the newly developed fields of European history and philosophy.In the 1930s,several cultural conservatives constructed a new hybrid concept of Chinese humanism in a dual effort to modize Chinese traditions and introduce so-called West leing (xixue西学).This distinctive notion continues to play an influential role in reinterpreting Confucianism and Chinese traditions today.