Salvation overwhelmed enlightenment

Salvation overwhelmed enlightenment (simplified Chinese: 救亡压倒启蒙; traditional Chinese: 救亡壓倒啟蒙), also known as "national salvation crushed enlightenment" or the "country's salvation suffocated the enlightenment", is a viewpoint put forward by Li Zehou in the mid-1980s (the New Enlightenment period) in an article entitled Double Variation on Enlightenment and National Salvation. However, American scholar Vera Schwarcz argued that she was in fact the one who raised this idea before Li.

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