Tan Sitong, Protocolized Connectivity, and the Chinese Ethics of "Ren”(仁). By Deng Chen, guest author

How a late 19th cy. Chinese thinker prefigured peer to peer principles as the guiding principle of society

The following text has a level of complexity, but I hope readers will make an effort, and so I will introduce it first. Indeed, I believe it is very important to see that contemporary young Chinese thinkers are diving into their tradition so as to confront western modernity on their own terms, and not just through westernized lenses.

Let me explain.