EAST 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Chen Duxiu, New Life Movement, Duan Qirui
7 May 2017
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Moralizing reform: the new life movement, the nanjing decade and the early ccp. Terms: may fourth movement, new life movement, the long march. Post qing: fragmentation, discussion on what china"s role in the world. Phrase books, discriminatory ways they spoke to the chinese. Chinese nationalism and ideas of the future were spreading: primarily urban people were effected but spread beyond, chinese began to pay attention to marxism - bolshevik revolution. Lu xun: father of modern chinese literature. Monday, nov 14 2016: chinese spirit need to be healed, though culture than science, turn away form medicine, and devote himself to literature, strong advocate for language reform. People should learn how to write vernacular chinese: never joined a particular party, he leaned towards communist, satire stories, point out cultural backwardness and moral issues. A madman"s diary: cannibalism as metaphor for feudalism. People at the top of the feudalistic society feed off of the individuals below them.
