HIS102Y1 Lecture : history notes chapter 19.docx
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The new culture movement a movement among chinese scholars in the early. 20th century to re-evaluate traditional confucian values and ultimately reject them, since they see these confucian values were what held china back: conservatism and traditionalism seen as roots of china"s problems. Chen duxiu believed in individualism and western-style democracy: said they can"t have modern democracy if women have to obey husbands/sons and can"t think for themselves, did not want to use ancient/classical chinese. Lu xun wrote stories in new culture movement journals: did not blame foreigners, but china itself corrupt officials, illiterate masses. Yuan shikai gets loans from european banks for his second revolution: supported by britain as he continued to exploit china. Seeing this, sun yatsen turned to russians to help china with political organization after his attempt at making alliances with warlords failed. A soviet diplomat meets with sun in 1923: the two men release a joint statement: said communism can"t work in.
