HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Chiang Kai-Shek, May Fourth Movement, Communist Party Of China
23 Oct 2017
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China"s search for order part 1 (sun yatsen"s rise to fame: p. 1008-12 (notes), notebook, notes 1 (one note), notes 2 (wiki word), revchart (word) After the fall of the qing in the revolution of 1911, china fell into a state of anarchy. Warlords (former generals from qing) established themselves as regional leaders. The govt. in beijing only ran the post office and few other services, while warlords were responsible for irrigation projects, opium trade, etc. Warlords were one of the many symbols of disintegration of the political order: may fourth movement. After the result of the paris peace conference, china expected the us to restore the full sovereignty of china, but instead approved of japanese interference in china. Students/intellectuals from urban areas of all classes protested against foreign interference. The movement"s leaders pledged to rid of imperialism in china and re-establish unity: ccp (chinese communist party) Some chinese were drawn by marxism-leninism and ccp was founded in shanghai. (1921)
