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Democracy and Socialism in Republican China: The Politics of Zhang Junmai (Carsun Chang), 1906-1941 (review)

Democracy and Socialism in Republican China: The Politics of Zhang Junmai (Carsun Chang),... 456 China Review International: Vol. 6, No. 2, Fall 1999 Roger B. Jeans, Jr. Democracy and Socialism in Republican China: The Politics of Zhang Junmai (Carson Chang), 1906­1941. Lanham, New York, and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997. xv, 369 pp. Hardcover $64.00, ISBN 0­8476­8706­6. Paperback $23.95, ISBN 0­8476­8707­4. The beginning of the twentieth century was a trying time for concerned Chinese intellectuals. Half a century after the Opium War of 1839­1842 knocked open the Chinese door and brought the ancient empire to its knees before the Western powers, the situation in China worsened to the point that it appeared in imminent danger of being partitioned. Among the foreign powers that were busy carving up China was Japan, which, although traditionally viewed as culturally indebted to China, had just carried out a successful institutional reform and joined the ranks of the Western powers by handing China a humiliating defeat in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894­1895. With mixed emotions of love and hate, admiration and contempt, many young Chinese intellectuals, almost exclusively from the gentry class, went to Japan to study ways to adapt the Japanese experience to China for the salvation of their motherland. Zhang Junmai was among the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png China Review International University of Hawai'I Press

Democracy and Socialism in Republican China: The Politics of Zhang Junmai (Carsun Chang), 1906-1941 (review)

Lee, Ta-ling.
China Review International , Volume 6 (2) – Sep 1, 1999
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456 China Review International: Vol. 6, No. 2, Fall 1999 Roger B. Jeans, Jr. Democracy and Socialism in Republican China: The Politics of Zhang Junmai (Carson Chang), 1906­1941. Lanham, New York, and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 1997. xv, 369 pp. Hardcover $64.00, ISBN 0­8476­8706­6. Paperback $23.95, ISBN 0­8476­8707­4. The beginning of the twentieth century was a trying time for concerned Chinese intellectuals. Half a century after the Opium War of 1839­1842 knocked open the Chinese door and brought the ancient empire to its knees before the Western powers, the situation in China worsened to the point that it appeared in imminent danger of being partitioned. Among the foreign powers that were busy carving up China was Japan, which, although traditionally viewed as culturally indebted to China, had just carried out a successful institutional reform and joined the ranks of the Western powers by handing China a humiliating defeat in the Sino-Japanese War of 1894­1895. With mixed emotions of love and hate, admiration and contempt, many young Chinese intellectuals, almost exclusively from the gentry class, went to Japan to study ways to adapt the Japanese experience to China for the salvation of their motherland. Zhang Junmai was among the

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