The Principle of Human Rights in Nationalist China: John C. H. Wu and the Ideological Origins of the 1946 Constitution

1985 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 441-461 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Greift
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Chinese Tradition ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
The Republic Of China ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Individual

The 1946 Constitution of the Republic of China was a product of 13 years' effort by the most liberal elements of the Kuomintang to create a permanent constitution for modern China. The Constitutionalists' goal was to synthesize “autochthonous” norms from the Chinese tradition and modern western liberal values, in accordance with the pre-existing syncretism that Sun Yat-sen had created a generation before. They hoped, thereby, to reach a just balance between the claims of the individual and the claims of the collective in the modern Chinese polity.

scholarly journals Saving the Nation by Sacrificing Your Life: Authoritarianism and Chiang Kai-shek's War for the Retaking of China

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-86
Author(s):  
Isabelle Cheng
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Chinese Nation ◽  
Authoritarian Government ◽  
The Republic Of China ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the role assigned to citizens by the ideology of authoritarianism in the relationship between Chiang Kai-shek's war to retake mainland China and the wartime regime constructed for fighting that war. Viewing Chiang's ambition of retaking China by force as an anti-communist nationalist war, this paper considers this prolonged civil war as Chiang's attempt at restoring the impaired sovereignty of the Republic of China. Adopting the concept of “necropolitics,” this paper argues that what underlay the planning for war was the manipulation of the life and death of the citizenry and a distinction drawn between the Chinese nation to be saved and the condemned communist Other. This manipulation and demarcation was institutionally enforced by an authoritarian government that violated citizens' human rights for the sake of winning the nationalist war.

scholarly journals The Role Of Baihua In Chinese Linguistics

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 (10) ◽  
pp. 97-102
Author(s):  
Feruza Khasanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Language ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Republic Of China ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Chinese Linguistics

This article discusses the situation in Chinese linguistics before the founding of the Republic of China, the status of the Baihua language, the “may 4 movement” for the Baihua language and its consequences. As a result of the widespread introduction of the Baihua language, which served as an important factor in the formation of the modern Chinese language, a number of reforms were carried out in Chinese linguistics. The relevance of each reform gained practical significance.

Buddhism and Patriotism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Pacey
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Chinese Values ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic Of China ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Post War

The KMT sought to foster one value in particular—that of patriotism, or loyalty to the Republic of China. In this context, the elite Buddhists covered in this chapter presented Buddhism as patriotic, and aligned with the “modern” Chinese values promoted in the post-war context. On the other hand, they presented Christianity as antithetical to these. Such a stance painted Christianity as inherently unpatriotic, and therefore discordant with the KMT’s socio-political vision. Interfaith competition thus allowed these Buddhists to craft, and express, a politically acceptable identity. The chapter examines these issues through the writings of two Buddhist figures: Zhuyun and Shengyan (then writing as “The General who Awakens the World”), and a Christian pastor, Wu Enpu.

scholarly journals The modern Chinese press on Taiwan

1958 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Hwa Shu Long
Keyword(s):  
Mass Communication ◽  
The Other ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
The Republic Of China ◽  
The Republic

"The purpose of this study is two-fold. One is to present facts about the present conditions of the Chinese press on Taiwan whereupon the Republic of China is based. The other is to evaluate the development and limitations of the Chinese press as it tries to become a more effective and stronger means of mass communication on Taiwan."--Page 2

The Chinese Tradition

2020 ◽  
pp. 77-95
Author(s):  
Albert H. Y. Chen
Keyword(s):  
Qing Dynasty ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Late Qing Dynasty ◽  
Chinese Tradition ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Late Qing ◽  
Foreign Law ◽  
The Republic

This chapter discusses comparative administrative law (CAL) in China. It begins with the introduction and reception of Japanese administrative law in China in the late Qing Dynasty. The chapter then surveys the study of comparative law and the influence of foreign law on the development of Chinese administrative law in the Republic of China era and after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. Major developments in Chinese administrative law in both the Republican era and the Communist era are also briefly outlined as the context of administrative law scholarship. The chapter shows that the story of the study of comparative and foreign administrative law in modern China is very closely intertwined with the story of the development of Chinese administrative law itself.

Duansheng Qian’s thoughts on human rights

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-56
Author(s):  
Pinghua Sun
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Legal Systems ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Legal Thought ◽  
The Republic Of China ◽  
The Republic

AbstractDuansheng Qian was a renowned scholar in the period of the Republic of China who studied in depth and at length the legal systems of different countries. His discourse constitutes a rich treasure of political and legal thought and numerous ideas on human rights. Much of his discourse touches on the concept of protecting human rights. A study of Qian’s works reveals the breadth and width of his ideas on human rights that form an important part of Chinese concepts on human rights. Many of these concepts are of great historical and practical significance.

Problems of the history of World War II in the interpretation of modern Chinese historians

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (01) ◽  
pp. 260-270
Author(s):  
Alexey Lubkov ◽  
Mikhail Novikov
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic Of China ◽  
The Republic

The publication examines the approaches of modern Chinese historians to determining the role of China in World War II, assessing the contribution of the Republic of China to the victory over Japan, the problem of localizing the place and date of the beginning of World War II, clarifying the nature, essence of the Chinese anti-Japanese war and its historical significance.

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