China AOS1 Interpretations Flashcards
Fairbank
Re: Yuan’s interest in democracy
‘he had no vision for a new system.’
Lynch
Re: Yuan becoming emperor
‘aroused fiercer and more determined opposition’
Mitter
Re: New Culture Movement
‘intellectually and socially one of the most promising and exciting times in Chinese history.’
Terill
Re: New Youth magazine
‘a magazine that jabbed the rapier of modern Western ideas through the ribs of China’s rigid tradition.’
Mitter
Re: May Fourth Movement
‘The May Fourth period marked a unique combination of… sense of real and impending crisis; a combination of a plurality of competing ideas aimed at “saving the nation”, and an audience ready to receive, welcome, contest and adapt these ideas.’
Short
Re: Impact of May Fourth Movement
‘This unity of workers, students and intellectuals idicated the beginning of a credible and important nationalist movement, albeit an urban one. This yearning for a national renewal was one of the defining and most signifiacnt periods of modern Chinese history.’
Lynch
Re: Impact of May Fourth Movement
‘Most significant aspect of 4 May reaction was the response of Chinese students and intellectuals… turned even more eagerly to revolutionary theory to justify their resistance… gave a sense of direction to radicals and revolutionaries.’
Rebecca Karl
Re: May 30 incident
‘The May 30 Incident and its aftermath helped usher in a new hope for social mobilisation and revolutionary upsurge.’
Fenby
Re: role of the communists in Shanghai
‘This could be portrayed either as fifth column aid for the Nationalists or as a bid to set up a Soviet, or both. It was a major threat to Jiang to since the strikers would greatly outnumber his troops.’
Miesner
Re: Shanghai Massacre
‘a bloodbath that virtually destroyed both the CCP and workers’ movement in China’s largest city… it was an orgy of counter-revolutionary violence.’
Helmut
Re: Post expulsion of communists from FUF
GMD ‘remained a house divided against itself… its leaders had become rivals for power.’
Seagrave
Re: Jiang leaves GMD power struggle
‘This cleared the way for his rivals to tear at each other’s throats.’
Womack:
Re: Jiangxi Soviet
‘Necessity was the mother of the CCP’s reinvention.’
Davin
Re: Jiangxi Soviet
‘social laboratory’
Sun Shuyun
Re: Futain Purges
‘…Red Army was killing Red Army! Communists were killing Communists!… They kept their mouth shut like a grasshopper on a cold day.’
Shiping Zheng
Re: Jiangxi Soviet
‘The Jiangxi Soviet Republic afforded the Communists the first opportunity to test their ability to govern… counter-balance his opponents…’