ATS2039 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kuomintang, Communist Party Of China, Xinhai Revolution
31 May 2018
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ATS2039 - W1 Lec
•Why study the past?
◦1st Quote by Oscar Wilde: If you don’t have a sense of how
the past has shaped the present that you know as your reality
then you don't know the reality you're living through
◦2nd Quote by Rowan Williams: how our received knowledge of
the past shapes how we think about things
◦China's early thinkers saw as a guide to life
◦What is praise worthy and what is blameworthy (褒 贬）
◦How Confuscious teaching has affect the way of life now
- China’s early thinkers saw history as a guide to life
• When did "modern China" (现代中国） begin?
The history takes the form of written accounts, produced by historical
individuals and later scholars and writers
•What links are there between the Chinese words for "modern" and
"revolution" (革命)
Defining Modernistion: the process of change
(Socialist vs. capitalist)
Defining Modernity: the experience of living in a recognisably modern
world
Link between Modern and Revolutions
-Balazs’s reading saw Chinese history as an unhappy history and
illustrate the importance of evolution to the narration of modern
China
-Scholarship on the 1911 revolution is extensive because Wuchang
uprising of 1911 saw the collapse of the Qing government
-China became the Republic of China on 1 January 1912
-Key anniversary date in the international calendar
-Most accounts of Chinese agree that
-Without revolution, China’s dynastic system would not have ended
-Would not have been the dramatic shift of a modern republic in 1912
-Under CCP rule since 1949, modern Chinese history has been
narrated as a history of revolution
What is the past?
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Document Summary
The history takes the form of written accounts, produced by historical individuals and later scholars and writers: what links are there between the chinese words for modern and. De ning modernistion: the process of change (socialist vs. capitalist) De ning modernity: the experience of living in a recognisably modern world. Balazs"s reading saw chinese history as an unhappy history and illustrate the importance of evolution to the narration of modern. Scholarship on the 1911 revolution is extensive because wuchang uprising of 1911 saw the collapse of the qing government. China became the republic of china on 1 january 1912. Key anniversary date in the international calendar. Without revolution, china"s dynastic system would not have ended. Would not have been the dramatic shift of a modern republic in 1912. Under ccp rule since 1949, modern chinese history has been narrated as a history of revolution. Of cial historians are unrestrained and skilful at concealing the truth.
