Gu Hongming Quotes

1857–1928 China

Gu Hongming, in his time known as Ku Hung-ming (18 July 1857 – 30 April 1928) was a Chinese thinker and man of letters. Famous for his knowledge of the English language and Western civilization, he however voiced an opposition to reforms of the Chinese society.

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Also known as: Hongming Gu, Ku Hung-Ming, Ku Hung-ming

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The serene and blessed mood which enables us to see into the life of things: that is imaginative reason, that is the Spirit of the Chinese People.

The Spirit of the Chinese People (1915)

But people will say to me, "why ask selflessness and sacrifice only from the woman? What about the man?" To this, I answer, does not the man, the husband, who toils and moils to support his family, and especially if he is a gentleman, who has to do his duty not only to his family, but to his King and country, and, in doing that has, some time even to give his life: does he not also make sacrifice?

The Spirit of the Chinese People (1915)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Gu Hongming (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.