4/29/2023 0 Comments Hundred days reform![]() Very inspiring one, if you have a good sense of just how serious all the Will have been put through all kinds of hell, both by foreign powers and byĭomestic tyrants like Chiang Kai-shek. By the time we get to 1949 the Chinese people Picture of just how daunting the odds were that the Chinese Communist ![]() Or less automatic and determined by social and economic conditions. Other things (collectively if not individually), rather than as something more More subjective effort on the part of millions of people, after trying out many Through, but rather as a highly contingent response, and as the result of much One-to-one response to all of the turmoil and suffering that China went So the emergence of Maoism doesn’t come off as a Having a communist revolution, but went down a road with many tortuous twistsĪnd turns and dead ends. Is to situate the development of Maoism in the context of:Ĭhinese responses to the problems foisted upon China by its experience withĮuropean, American and Japanese imperialism. That’s why, even though Mao wasn’t born untilġ893, we started the podcast with the earliest major war of a European powerĪgainst China, the Opium War of 1839-1842. That means going furtherīack than just proximate causes, the causes that are closest in time and space Which gave rise to what you’re trying to understand. Really go back in time and explore the series of events and various phenomena Its my position that to really understand something, one has to Maoism emerged in China both as a response toįoreign domination of China, and also as a response to longstanding problems inĬhina itself. What does all this have to do with global Maoism? After all, this is a podcastĪbout the development of Maoism as a global ideology. War, with particular focus on the Confucian reformer Kang Youwei and the 100 Mao Zedong, leader of the Chinese RevolutionĪbout the reaction in China to the loss to Japan in the 1894-95 Sino-Japanese Okuma Shigenobu, Japanese prime minister who offered Kang Youwei aid Kang Guangren, Kang Youwei’s younger brother Rong Lu, conservative Manchu governor of metropolitan region and Cixi loyalist Ito Hirobumi, senior Japanese statesman whose met with Guangxu while Cixi ‘sat behind the curtain’ Kang Youwei, Confucian advocate of liberal modernization and Qing loyalistĮmperor Guangxu, Emperor of China during this episode, tried to assert his power during Hundred Days ReformĮmpress Dowager Cixi, the real power behind the throne If you’re into that topic, you may also want to read Fabio Lanza’s End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies. A good book that goes really deep into this is Paul Cohen’s Discovering History in China. In the wake of the Sino-Japanese War, Kang Youwei works with the Guangxu Emperor to try to replicate Japan’s Meiji reforms, before being crushed by Cixi and other Manchu conservatives.Īt the beginning of the episode, I talk some about how westerners have written about Chinese history.
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