In Shifts of Power: Modern Chinese Thought and Society, Luo Zhitian explores the causes and consequences of various shifts of power during the transition from imperial to Republican China (1890-1949).
In a collection of recent essays, Zhitian focuses on the origin of modern China, emphasizing the contemporary concerns of historical actors in order to gain a sympathetic understanding of them. He
Luo Zhitian's Inheritance within Rupture is a multi-faceted exploration of how Chinese scholars understood modernity and tradition, historical ruptures and cultural continuties in the late Qing and ea
