A major school of thought in 1920s and 1930s China
The Xueheng School (simplified Chinese: 学衡派; traditional Chinese: 學衡派; pinyin: Xuéhéngpài),[1] also known as the Hsueh-Heng School[2][3][4] or the Critical Review group,[5][6] was a major school of thought against the New Culture Movement in China. Active in the 1920s and 1930s, the school founded and published the academic journal of The Critical Review, also known by Xueheng in Chinese, and was named after the journal. The school was impacted by the New Humanism of Irving Babbitt, amid the crisis of modernity debates after the First World War. Thus, the school went against full westernization of China, but rather promote careful, selective absorption of western culture.[7]