Xueren
Introduction '''''Xueren''''' (English: ''The Scholar'') was an influential Chinese independent intellectual journal that ran from 1991 to 2000.It was founded and edited by Chen Pingyuan, Wang Hui, and Wang Shouchang under the sponsorship of a Japanese foundation. In order to work around censorship conditions in the Chinese publishing industry that make it more difficult for periodicals to get approval than books, ''Xueren'' was published as a "series" in the latter format. Other journals that have taken the same approach include ''Res Publica'' and ''Horizons''.Scholar Chaohua Wang locates ''Xueren'''s origins in "the self-examination of intellectuals intimately involved in the ferment of the eighties":The project of its editors . . . was to retrieve the history of modern Chinese scholarship (''xueshu shi''), a tradition they felt was in danger of being obscured or forgotten under the pressure of imported theories. In doing so, they wanted to clarify their own intellectual identity and responsibilities. What was their position in a historical chain of scholarly development? When and how should a scholar speak out on public issues?Co-founder Wang Hui characterizes his and his colleagues' motivations similarly, but without a critical approach toward "imported theories" in academe as a primary component of their intellectual project, and with more of an eye toward directly socially relevant goals. According to him, ''Xueren'' was created to facilitate an effort by young intellectuals to "reconsider" modern Chinese history in the wake of the failure of the 1989 democracy movement, a "process of reflection" thatincluded serious reconsideration of modern history, conscientious rethinking of attempts to carry out radical reform on the basis of Western models, close investigation of the Chinese historical legacy and its contemporary significance, and necessary critiques of certain of the consequences of radical political action.However, Wang Hui states that ''Xueren'' "did not pursue any particular academic agenda."
Example table of contents The 648-page seventh issue of ''Xueren'' (May 1995) printed the following table of contents in English (though all articles were in Chinese): Page  Title  Author 1   On Kant's Cultural Philosophy  Hong Qian 5  Hong Qian: A Rational Life  Wang Wei 15  Hong Qian and Otto Neurath  Fan Dainan 31  Mority Schlik on Content and Form  Han Linhe 43  A Commentary on the Eastern Flow of Western Geography During the Late Qing  Guo Shaunglin 85  Translingual Practice: The Discourse of Individualism Between China and the West  Lydia H. Liu 121  Cai Yuanpei's Philosophy of Gender Equality  Xia Xiaohong 163  Liu Shipei's Research on Chinese Academic History  Wu Guangxing 187  The Issues Raised During the Debate Between Xiong Shili and Liang Shuming  Jing Haifeng 211  The Vijñānavāda School and the Concept of Hetu  Luo Zhao 271  A New Look at the Origins of Tibetan Culture  Wang Xiaodun 303  A Study of the Dagger-Axe with the "Bi bing" Inscriptions Found at Jingmen  Luo Zhao 325  The Mo Sword and the Military Affairs of the Great Tang Empire  Li Jinxiu 341  The Bagu Eight-Part Essay and Classical Chinese Prose of the Ming and Qing  Chen Pingyuan 373  On the Adherents of the Ming Dynasty  Zhao Yuan 395  On the Relationship Between Changzhou 常州 Woman's Culture and the Yanghu School Writers 阳湖派  Cao Hong 419  In Search of New Models for Research on China  Liu Dong 469  Reaching Out From Tradition: The Connection Between Peace and Political Order  He Huaihong 501  The Fate of the Doctrine of Two Categories of Truth: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present  Xu Youyu 523  Theory and Practice: A Study of the History of Philosophical Thinking  Zhang Rulun 561  Song See Yeol and the Zhuzi School of the Lee Dynasty in Korea  Chen Lai 577  Ogyu Sorai and His Innovations to Japanese Confucianism  Wang Zonghiangz  '''''Notes on Academic History Research''''' 601  Breaking Away Form ''sic'' the Cycle of the Han and Song Schools  Chen Shaoming 615  A Brief Account of the Revival of the Xunzi School During the Mid-Qing  Yang Hu 627  A Critique of Xiao Yang's "The Law of Causality, Historicism, and Autonomy"  Chen Lian
See also * ''Dushu'', a journal of which Wang Hui would become editor in 1996, and which had been in the mid-to-late eighties a key popularizer of the "imported theories" to which ''Xueren'''s founding was in part a reaction
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