Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 2 by Wm. Theodore de Bary

Author:Wm. Theodore de Bary [Bary, Wm. Theodore de]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History/Asia/General
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 32

THE NATIONALIST REVOLUTION

The Chinese Revolution of 1911, which led to the overthrow of the Manchus the following year, was complex in its origins and confused as to its outcome. There is no single trend of thought or political action with which it can be identified. Nevertheless, amid the shifting currents of ideas and events in the two decades following, nationalism and republicanism emerged as perhaps the leading slogans in the political arena; and in the popular mind (if we may so speak of a political consciousness still somewhat inchoate), it was Sun Yat-sen (1866–1925) and his Nationalist (Guomindang) followers who stood out as the most eloquent, though not always the most effective, spokesmen for these concepts. In the post-Mao era many Chinese returned to these ideas as having a continuing relevance to the process of modernization under Deng Xiaoping. To express their basic aims and hopes is the purpose of the selections that follow. The next chapter will illustrate the extraordinary intellectual ferment and vitality during this same republican era.

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