China's Conservative Revolution

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-107-19623-0
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 542 g

In this ambitious examination of the complex political culture of China under Guomindang rule, Brian Tsui interweaves political ideologies, intellectual trends, social movements and diplomatic maneuvers to demonstrate how the Chinese revolution became conservative after the anti-Communist coup of 1927. Dismissing violent struggles for class equality as incompatible with nationalist goals, Chiang Kai-shek's government should, Tsui argues, be understood in the context of the global ascendance of radical right-wing movements during the inter-war period. The Guomindang's revolutionary nation-building and modernization project struck a chord with China's reformist liberal elite, who were wary of mob rule, while its obsession with Eastern spirituality appealed to Indian nationalists fighting Western colonialism. The Nationalist vision was defined by the party-state's hostility to communist challenges as much as by its ability to co-opt liberalism and Pan-Asianist anti-colonialism. Tsui's revisionist reading revisits the peculiarities of the Guomindang's revolutionary enterprise, resituating Nationalist China in the moment of global radical right ascendancy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tsui, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; 2. Orthodoxy: purifying the revolution; 3. The masses: a youth movement for the conservative revolution; 4. State comes first: wartime spiritual revolution; 5. Convergence: liberal sentimentalities and the conservative revolution; 6. World revolution: China, Pan-Asianism and India.

Über Autor(innen)

Tsui, Brian
Brian Tsui is Assistant Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His works on Guomindang ideology, China�ndia relations and the Cold War have appeared in journals such as Modern China, Twentieth-Century China and positions: asia critique.