- Published: 6 February 2024
- ISBN: 9780241568781
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $26.99
Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio
Essays on China and the World

















- Published: 6 February 2024
- ISBN: 9780241568781
- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 272
- RRP: $26.99
China's first iconic modern intellectual. His lucid and prolific writings, touching on all major concerns in his own time and anticipating many in the future, inspired several generations of thinkers including the much younger Mao Zedong.
Pankaj Mishra
I have been waiting a very long time for a volume like this one, [it is] a real milestone [...] Peter Zarrow has finally undertaken the considerable scholarly effort to translate, masterfully and lucidly, key essays from Liang Qichao [...]They often succeed in capturing distinctive elements of Liang’s style, including his seeming breathlessness as he lists ever more historical examples or his full-throated urgency as he rushes to convince his readers of the crisis they are facing at any given moment [... it] should be read by all serious students of modern politics
Leigh Jenco, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture
Not being aware of Liang Qichao is like not being aware of Nietzsche or Hegel… eclectic and robustly cosmopolitan, a fascinating figure
Jeffery Wasserstrom