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While China Faced West - American Reformers in Nationalist China, 1928-1937 (Paperback, New Ed)
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While China Faced West - American Reformers in Nationalist China, 1928-1937 (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Harvard East Asian Series
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The years from 1928 to 1937 were the "Nanking decade" when the
Chinese Nationalist government strove to build a new China with
Western assistance. This was an interval of hope between the
turbulence of the warlord-ridden twenties and the eight-year war
with Japan that began in 1937. James Thomson explores the ways in
which Americans, both missionaries and foundation representatives,
tried to help the Chinese government and Chinese reformers
undertake a transformation of rural society. His is the first
in-depth study of these efforts to produce radical change and at
the same time avoid the chaos and violence of revolution. Despite
the conservatism of the right wing in the Kuomintang party
dictatorship, this Nanking decade saw many promising beginnings.
American missionaries-the largest group of Westerners in the
Chinese hinterland-often took the initiative locally, and some
rallied to support of China's first modern-minded government. They
assisted both in rural reconstruction programs and in efforts of at
ideological reform. Thomson analyzes the work of the National
Christian Council in an area of Kiangsi province recently recovered
from Communist rule. He also traces the deepening involvement of
missionaries and the Chinese Christian Church in the "New Life
Movement," sponsored by Chiang Kai-shek. Unhappily aware of the
sharpening polarization of Chinese politics, these American
reformers struggled in vain to steer clear of too close an
identification with the ruling party. Yet they found themselves
increasingly identified with the Nanking regime and their reform
efforts obstructed by its disinclination or inability to
revolutionize the Chinese countryside. In this way, American
reformers in Nationalist China were forerunners of subsequent
American attempts, under government sponsorship, to find a middle
path between revolution and reaction in other situations of
national upheaval. For this book, James Thomson has used hitherto
unexplored archives that document the participation of American
private citizens in the process of Chinese social, economic, and
political change.
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Imprint: |
Harvard University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Harvard East Asian Series |
Release date: |
December 1969 |
First published: |
1969 |
Authors: |
James C. Thomson
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Dimensions: |
250 x 130 x 21mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
312 |
Edition: |
New Ed |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-674-95137-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Earth & environment >
Geography >
General
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LSN: |
0-674-95137-9 |
Barcode: |
9780674951372 |
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