{{Short description|Chinese scholar}} {{family name hatnote|[[Jin (Chinese surname)|Jin]]|lang=Chinese}} {{Contemporary Chinese political thought|liberalism}} '''Jin Guantao''' (Chinese: 金观涛; born 1947) is a Chinese scholar who is currently the chair professor of the Department of Chinese Literature at the [[National Chengchi University]] in [[Taiwan]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=GUAN-TAO JIN |url=https://ah.lib.nccu.edu.tw/scholar?id=7077&title=person |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=National Chengchi University}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Jin Guantao 金观涛 b.1947 {{!}} Centre for Chinese Research |url=https://ccr.ubc.ca/jin-guantao/ |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=[[University of British Columbia]]}}</ref> Jin was an influential figure in the [[New Enlightenment (China)|New Enlightenment movement]] in the 1980s in [[mainland China]], creating the ''[[Toward the Future Series|Towards the Future Book Series]]'' with [[Bao Zunxin]] and others in 1984.<ref name=":2">{{Cite journal |last=Bartel |first=David |date=2011-07-30 |title=No Forbidden Zone in 21st Century |url=https://journals.openedition.org/chinaperspectives/5576 |journal=China Perspectives |language=en |volume=2011 |issue=2 |pages=66‑73 |doi=10.4000/chinaperspectives.5576 |issn=2070-3449}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=2012-05-21 |title=金觀濤和劉青峰老師簡介 |url=https://hc.nccu.edu.tw/public/view.php?main=3&sub=25&ssub=27&id=142 |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=National Chengchi University}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite web |date=2008-11-17 |title=[预告]深入分析近30年中国思想启蒙发展历程 |trans-title=[Preview] Deep analysis of the development of China's enlightenment thought in the past 30 years |url=https://phtv.ifeng.com/program/zhtfl/200811/1117_1687_881651.shtml |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=[[Phoenix New Media]]}}</ref> In 1990, he founded the academic journal ''[[Twenty-First Century]]'' with his wife Liu Qingfeng at the [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]].<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" />
== Biography == Jin Guantao was born in [[Yiwu, Zhejiang]] in 1947, and graduated from [[Peking University]] in 1970 with a degree in chemistry.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":4" /> During the [[Chinese Cultural Revolution]] (1966–1976), he became interested in humanities and social sciences.<ref name=":1" />
Jin was an active figure during the [[New Enlightenment (China)|New Enlightenment movement]] in [[mainland China]] in the 1980s, creating the popular ''[[Toward the Future Series|Towards the Future Book Series]]'' with [[Bao Zunxin]] and others in 1984.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /><ref name=":4" />
From an anti-Marxist perspective, Jin and Liu Qingfeng contended that Chinese history should be studied as a macro system according to the internal logic of its culture and values.<ref name=":12">{{Cite book |last=Imbach |first=Jessica |title=Digital China: Creativity and Community in the Sinocybersphere |date=2025 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=9781041178088 |pages=190 |chapter=Network Fantasies: Liu Cixin's China 2185, Digital Futurism, and History as Computer Code}}</ref> In their view, Chinese civilization was an "ultrastable structure" with [[Confucianism]] as the main regulator of its "deep structure" and the root reason for its stability.<ref name=":12" />
He served as the director of the Philosophy of Science in the Research Institute of the [[Chinese Academy of Sciences]].<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=High Culture Fever |url=https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft0489n683&chunk.id=d0e1118&toc.id=d0e734&brand=ucpress |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=[[University of California]]}}</ref> In 1986, he spent a year as a visiting researcher at the [[University of Pennsylvania]] in the [[United States]].<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Jin |first=Guantao |last2=Liu |first2=Qingfeng |date=2011-11-01 |title=兴盛与危机：论中国社会超稳定结构 |url=http://www.megbook.com.hk/mall/detail.jsp?proID=3984218 |access-date=2024-10-14 |website=megBook (Hong Kong)}}</ref> In 1988, he became the main advisor to the influential TV documentary ''[[River Elegy]]''.<ref name=":3" />
After the [[Tiananmen Square Massacre]] in 1989, Jin moved to the [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]] where he founded the academic journal ''[[Twenty-First Century]]'' and built "the Database for the Study of Modern Chinese Thought (1830-1930)" with his wife Liu Qingfeng.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3" /> Jin was a Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Chinese Studies in the Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1989 to 2008.<ref name=":1" />
Since 2009, Jin has been a professor at the [[National Chengchi University]] in [[Taiwan]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3" />
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