HIS 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: New Media, Social Darwinism, Mass Mobilization
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Week 9: modernism came to prominence in the arts and science in the early twentieth century. Popular culture comes of age newspapers become sources of both entertainment and information (english daily mail, french petit parisian circulation over 1 million) Europe experiences richest cultural (artistic and intellectual) renaissance since the re- naissance (picasso, einstein, duncan, nietzsche, freud etc. ) The chinese writers used racial ideas to emphasize superiority of han chi- nese. Pace of change prompted desire to trace one"s roots back. San yat-sen (1866-1925) established an organization in hawaii, advocat- ing for the qing downfall and the creation of a republic. Replacing the qing and reconstituting a nation: manchu court attempted reforms, but it was too late. 1911 mutiny ended 2,000 year of qing dynastic rule. China"s reconstitution was heavily based on sun"s ideas. Elites defended idea of national identities as unchangeable.
