Title From the May Fourth Movement to Communist Revolution : Guo Moruo and the Chinese path to Communism / Xiaoming Chen

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2007] ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 156 pages) : illustrations Series SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture. Contents Chapter 1 Toward Individual Emancipation and Personal Moral/Spiritual Salvation 11 -- From the May Fourth Individualist Rebellion to the Marxist Cause of Individual Emancipation 11 -- A May Fourth Individualist Awakening 11 -- From the May Fourth Individualist Awakening to a Marxist Radical Approach to Individual Emancipation 31 -- Striving for Personal Moral/Spiritual Salvation: From a May Fourth Confucian Focus to a Communist Confucian Battle 41 -- A May Fourth Focus 41 -- Shifting the Focus 48 -- Chapter 2 Toward National Salvation 53 -- May Fourth Love and Concern for the Motherland 53 -- The Mid-1920s: Dedication to Saving China through Communist Revolution 61 -- Chapter 3 Toward the Liberation of Mankind 71 -- A May Fourth Cosmopolitanist Ideal of Datong: A Pastoral/Primitive Paradise 71 -- The Datong Ideal 71 -- The Cosmopolitan World and the Individual and the Cosmopolitan World and the Nation 79 -- The Cosmopolitanist Ideal and a "Mentality of Extremes" 81 -- The Means to Achieve the Ideal: Leftist Radicalism to Save the World? 82 -- The Mid-1920s: Finding a Modern "Scientific" Echo of Datong in Marxism and Committing to Revolution 86 -- Attracted to the Marxist Cosmopolitanist Ideal 86 -- Committing to Marxist/Leninist Revolution as the Means to Achieve the Cosmopolitanist Ideal 89 -- Chapter 4 Toward a Solution to Modern China's Intellectual Crisis 91 -- A May Fourth Solution to the Intellectual Crisis 92 -- Defending the Best of Chinese Tradition 92 -- Combining the Best of China with Modern Western Science and Goetheanism 94 -- A May Fourth Synthesis of the Best of the East and West as a Solution to the Intellectual Crisis 97 -- The Mid-1920s: Solving China's Intellectual Crisis through the Combination of Confucianism and Marxism/Leninism 98 -- Redefining the Best of the East and West 98 -- The Formation of a Confucian/Marxist/Leninist Communist Synthesis 101 Summary Using the life and work of influential Chinese writer Guo Moruo (1892-1978), reflects on China's encounters with modernity, Communism, and capitalism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-150) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Guo, Moruo, 1892-1978 Guo, Moruo, 1892-1978 Guo, Moruo. Communism -- China. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism & Socialism Communism Kommunismus Vierter-Mai-Bewegung China -- History -- May Fourth movement, 1919. China Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2006027522 ISBN 9780791471371 0791471373 9780791479865 0791479862

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