Kazan (Volga region) Federal University, KFU
KAZAN
FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
 
GLOBAL UTOPIAS OF H. G. WELLS AND KANG YOUWEI: COMPARATIVE CONFRONTATION
Form of presentationArticles in international journals and collections
Year of publication2015
Языканглийский
  • Martynov Dmitriy Evgenevich, author
  • Martynov Dmitriy Evgenevich, author
  • Martynova Yuliya Aleksandrovna, author
  • Bibliographic description in the original language Dmitry E. Martynov, Yulia A. Martynova. Global Utopias of H. G. Wells and Kang Youwei: Comparative Confrontation // Journal of Sustainable Development. 2015. Vol. 8, no 5. Pp. 62-70. DOI: 10.5539/jsd.v8n5p62
    Annotation The existing studies conducted in the field of social ideals are characterised by the Eurocentric approach. The aim of the given paper is to analyse two varieties of social ideal created in China and Great Britain at the beginning of the XXth century, which share a number of common peculiarities. The first one was offered by a British socialist, a member of the Fabian society ? Herbert George Wells (1866 ? 1946), the second was created by a famous Chinese thinker, a reformer and a representative of modern Neo-Confucianism ? Kang Youwei (1858 ? 1927). The research is based on the comparative method with the application of the functional analysis. It allowed us to compare the social ideals created within two genetically non-related cultures. The article shows that both Wells and Kang Youwei were concerned with global world reorganization, however they come to different results.
    Keywords Great Unity (Datong), globalism, Utopia, Confucianism
    The name of the journal Journal of Sustainable Development
    URL http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jsd/article/view/50487/27117
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