Democracy and Socialism in Republican China The Politics of Zhang Junmai, 1906-1941

by Jeans, Roger B.

• ISBN13: 9780847687060
• ISBN10: 0847687066
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-12-11
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This groundbreaking book is the first full-length English-language study to explore the struggles for constitutional democracy and democratic socialism of Zhang Junmai (Carsun Chang, 1887-1969), a major political and intellectual figure in Republican China. Focusing on Zhang's writings, Roger Jeans has provided detailed descriptions and extensive translations of Zhang's key books and essays. He sets the context for these seminal works by describing Zhang's personal situation, the social and intellectual mili

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii	(2)
Acknowledgements	ix	(4)
Note on Romanization	xiii	(2)
Abbreviations Used in the Notes	xv
Introduction	1	(8)
PART ONE The Making of a Constitutionalist and Socialist	9	(48)
1. Chinese Constitutionalist in Late-Meiji Japan, 1906-1910	9	(18)
2. Western Model for China? Sojourn in Weimar Germany, 1919-1921	27	(30)
PART TWO Politician and Educator in Warlord and Guomindang China	57	(40)
3. The Making of a Third-Force Politician in the 1920s	57	(16)
4. Schools and Educational Vision, 1923-1941	73	(24)
PART THREE Opposition to Communism and the Guomindang during the Nanjing Decade, 1927-1937	97	(152)
5. Trials of a Third-Force Intellectual during the Early Years of the Nanjing Decade	97	(22)
6. Heaven or Hell: Soviet Russia through the Eyes of a Third-Force Intellectual at the Beginning of the Nanjing Decade	119	(30)
7. Soviet Russia, the Comintern, and the Chinese Communists: The Views of a Third-Force Politician during the Early 1930s	149	(52)
8. Third Force: The National Socialist Party of China, 1932-1937	201	(22)
9. In Search of the Middle Way: The Debate over Democracy and Dictatorship during the 1930s	223	(26)
PART FOUR Unity and Disunity during the War of Resistance against Japan	249	(56)
10. The "Other United Front": The National Socialist Party of China, the Guomindang, and the Chinese Communists, 1937-1938	249	(20)
11. A Letter to Mao: The Polemic over Zhang's Attack on the CCP, 1938-1939	269	(22)
12. The Philosopher and the Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Life and Death of the Institute of National Culture, 1939-1941	291	(14)
Epilogue	305	(6)
Bibliography	311	(20)
Glossary	331	(6)
Index	337	(34)
About the Author	371