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1866-1925 1st leader of the Chinese republic Chinese revolutionary and politcian "the father of modern china" one of modern china's greatest leaders played a role in the eventual collapse of the Qing dynasty. |
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(1875-1907) Wanted the rights of women to be included in the revolution. Participated in the revolution to free women from the gender hierarchy. Wanted to show that women were capable of military performance etc. Used the printing press and wrote newspapers to spread her ideas. Wanted to be the first female matyr of the Chinese revolution. |
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| (1879-1942) Chinese intellectual, journalist, and cofounder of the Chinese Communist party. (A student from Japan and France.) Edited the influential forum=New Youth. ‘revolution of the mind, not the political system.’ |
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labor and anti-imperialist movement in China. Shanghai police opened fire on Chinese strikers. The shootings sparked nation-wide anti-foreign demonstrations. |
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| Led Nationalist groups in the NORTHERN EXPEDITION to unify China and end the Warlord era. |
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anti- imperialist, cultural and political movement in early modern China.
upsurge of Chinese nationalism
reevaulated confucianism, and cultural institutions.
fueled the birth of the CPC (communist party of china) |
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chinese politician and reformer
late leader of CPC
developed Socialism
Chinese economic reform aka socialist market economy
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a Chinese intellectual who co-founded the Communist Party of China with Chen Duxiu in 1921.
Li was a nationalist and believed that the peasantry in China were to play an important role in China's revolution.
As with many intellectuals of his time, the roots of Li's revolutionary thinking were actually mostly in Kropotkin's communist anarchism, but after the events of the May Fourth Movement and the failures of the anarchistic experiments of many intellectuals, like his compatriots, he turned more towards Marxism. |
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-Disciple of Kang Youwei -Wanted a Constitutional Monarachy.
Believed a strong nation would require building loyal citizens, wrote the New Citizens journal in 1902.
Build horizontally not top down! Need Camaraderie, strong and independent people who are self aware and have separate ideas from their ruler. |
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| was an influential Chinese revolutionary magazine in the 1920s that played an important role during the May Fourth Movement.The magazine was started by Chen Duxiu in Shanghai on 15 September 1915 in Shanghai. Its headquarters were moved to Beijing in January 1917. Editors included Chen Duxiu, Qian Xuantong, Gao Yihan, Hu Shih, Li Dazhao, Shen Yinmo, and Lu Xun. It initiated the New Culture Movement, promoting science, democracy, and Vernacular Chinese literature |
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• A Chinese philosopher and essayist.
• Widely recognized today as a key contributor to Chinese liberalism and language reform in his advocacy for the use of vernacular Chinese.
• Well known as the primary advocate for the literary revolution of the era, a movement which aimed to replace scholarly classical Chinese in writing with the vernacular spoken language, and to cultivate and stimulate new forms of literature.
• Published two articles in New Youth, the first in January 1917 about writing, the second in April of 1918 about speaking. |
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•Sun Yatsen’s political philosophy to make China a free, prosperous, and powerful nation.
•This philosophy has been claimed as the cornerstone of the Republic of China's polity as carried by the Kuomintang (KMT). The principles also appear in the first line of the National Anthem of the Republic of China.
•Democracy, Nationalism, Populism. (with a hint of socialism) |
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•Chinese nationalist and revolutionary martyr of the anti-Qing movement.
•He went to Japan and studied the successful Japanese way of modernization. When he returned to China, he started to write essays on how to free the Chinese nation from the Manchu-Regime and foreign imperialism. In 1903, he published a little book on this topic: The Revolutionary Army.
•Zou found the Qing government unable to deal with the contemporary crisis of colonization, weakness and corruption.
•Believed the Manchu were the source of China's inability to overcome traditional obstacles for modern reforms and he analyzed their mistakes and weaknesses point by point.
•His calls for sovereignty of the Chinese people included the establishment of a parliament, equal rights for women, freedom of speech and freedom of the press. They were spread internationally by Sun Yat-sen. |
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•At the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, Mao once again mobilized young people to bring about his goals of further party consolidation and purging of “counterrevolutionaries”…these people were called Red Guards
•Journeyed all over the country and carried about the social cleansing Mao desired.
•Destroyed ancient relics and anything that could be seen as remotely rightist.
•Pillaged the homes of and killed people who had landlord, rightist, rich peasant, or middle class backgrounds in their family. |
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