CAS350H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Wolf Warrior 2, Mao Zedong, Chen Duxiu
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Intellecual chen duxiu wrote that young chinese were fresh, vigorous cells inside the human body primed to drive out the rotten corrupted cells of the old guard. Wanted youth to rebel against confucian customs, feudal order, corrupt politics all of which held china back from modernity since the qing dynasty had been overthrown. Embrace of science and democracy over confucius, old values were savage. May 4, 1919: over three thousand students (many from peking university) marched to tiananmen square in protest of china"s reaction to the versailles treaty at the end of wwi, which conceded colonial. Mao ze dong exhorted youth to destroy the four olds: old customs, old culture, old habits, old ideas. Shrines were torn down, museums were ransacked, books were burned, an openness to western ideology began. Deng xiaoping"s rule, following mao"s death, was marked by economic liberalization.
