Abstract: Zhang Junmai’s writing of Way to Build up a Nation was a reflection on epochal changes and China’s issues. Combining the world with China’s course of modernization and presenting his argument of a balance between “liberty” and “power”, he made his comprehensive responses to some important issues such as nationalism v. class politics, democratic politics v. authoritarian politics, socialism v. capitalism, and Chinese culture v. Western culture, putting forward a program of building up modern China which went beyond left and right wings. It might be regarded as a book of great thoughts in a great age.