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 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 PSYCHOBIOGRAPHY EXPERIENCE OF THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE POST-WAR GENERATION

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (18) ◽  
pp. 16-30
Author(s):  
B.V. Markov ◽  
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A.M. Sergeev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Russian Philosophy ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
Post War ◽  
The One

The Philosophical Dialogue is dedicated to the analysis of the historical development of Russian philosophy over the past half century. The authors investigated the attitude of ideas and people in the conditions of historical turning point in the late 20th and early 21st century. Philosophy in a borderline situation allows us to compare and evaluate the past and the present. On the one hand, archetypes, attitudes, moods and experiences, formed as a reception of the collective experience of the past era, have been preserved in the minds of thinkers of the post-war generation – in the consciousness, and may be in the neural networks of the brain. On the other hand, the new social reality – cognitive capitalism – radically changes the self-description of society. It is not to say that modernity satisfies people. Despite the talk about the production of cultural, social, human capital, they feel not happy, but lonely and defenseless in a rapidly changing world. Not only philosophical criticism, but also the wave of protests, which also engulfed the "welfare society", makes one wonder whether it is worth following the recipes of the modern Western economy. On the one hand, closure poses a threat to stagnation, the fate of the country of the outland outing. On the other hand, openness, and, moreover, the attempt to lead the construction of a networked society is nothing but self-sacrifice. Russia has already been the leader of the World International, aiming to defeat communism around the world. But there was another superpower that developed the potential of capitalism. Their struggle involved similarities, which consisted in the desire for technical conquest of the world. The authors attempted to reflect on the position of a country that would not give up the competition, but used new technologies to live better. To determine the criteria, it is useful to use the historical memory of the older generation to assess modernity. Conversely, get rid of repeating the mistakes of the past in designing a better future.

‘Praising Righteous Fan’: pla Air Force Commander Fan Yuanyan’s 1977 Defection to Taiwan

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-84
Author(s):  
Andrew D. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Air Force ◽  
The Other ◽  
Jimmy Carter ◽  
Fujian Province ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The Republic Of China ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Army Air Force ◽  
The Cold War

People’s Liberation Army Air Force Squadron Commander Fan Yuanyan flew his MiG-19 from Fujian Province, People’s Republic of China (prc) to the Republic of China (roc) on Taiwan on 7 July 1977. The timing of this defection, which came as u.s. President Jimmy Carter was moving decisively towards normalisation of relations with the prc, made Fan an anticommunist star. Fan spoke for years afterwards on behalf of the ‘800 million mainland compatriots’ who he felt wanted the roc to retake the mainland, even as he also became more critical of the excesses of capitalism and liberalism in Taiwan. Much of the Kuomintang’s propaganda use of Fan was related to ways in which Nationalist and Communist ideologies about authoritarian and antibourgeois values overlapped. Fan thus represents the ways in which Nationalist and Communist ideologies and societies were mutually constitutive and constructed with the other clearly in mind during the Cold War.

Population Reports in the Ch'ing Dynasty

1960 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 403-417 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene B. Taeuber ◽  
Nai-Chi Wang
Keyword(s):  
Total Population ◽  
The Other ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The Republic Of China ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Revolution

The growth of China's population and die veracity of the figures that purport to measure it are both puzzles. Critical in die solutions to both puzzles are die records of an alien dynasty that ruled China from 1644 to 1911. All reconstructions of the growth of the population in recent centuries trace to one or the other of die two Ch'ing series—die local reports ordered by the emperor Ch'ien-lung in 1741, or the survey that began in 1909 and ended with the revolution in 1911. The results of the registration of 1953–1954 are consistent with the first Ch'ing activity. The statistics of the Republic of China had lineal descent from both series, but at a level of total population consistent with the limited results of the 1909–1911 survey.

Shifting Memories

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 157-189
Author(s):  
Wai Yin Christina Wong
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
National Committee ◽  
First Year ◽  
Young Women's Christian Association ◽  
Republic Of China ◽  
The World ◽  
The Republic Of China ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
General Secretary

Abstract Five years after the establishment of the World Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) in 1894 under the influence of the Protestant evangelical movement the Chinese YWCA national committee was founded in 1899. Shortly after the overthrow of the Manchu Empire, the Canton YWCA was founded in 1912, the first year of the Republic of China. In this study I examine three oral history interviews with former YWCA staff, supplemented by the written recollections of a former general secretary and other scarce materials to reconstruct the fragmented work of the Canton YWCA in the 1940s. In the conclusion, I discuss how their memories have shifted according to their contingent “present” identities in different periods of time, and how they are dependent on individual concerns, institutional affiliations and socio-political contexts.

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.

The Survival of the Revolution in France

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. R. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
French Revolution ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
German States ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Government ◽  
United Provinces ◽  
The French Revolution

This chapter details events in 1973, when the issue for France and the world was whether revolution or counter-revolution should prevail. In every country where the government was at war with the French Republic in 1793—in Britain and Ireland, in the United Provinces and in Belgium restored to the Emperor, in the Austrian Monarchy, the small German states and the Prussian kingdom, in the Italian kingdom of Sardinia—there were groups of people whose sympathies lay in varying degree with the declared enemy. Wherever the French Revolution had been heard of there were men who wished it not to fail. Their concern was not only for France but for the future of some kind of democratization in their own countries. For those, on the other hand, who hoped to see the whole revolution undone, these first months of 1793 saw a revival of the exciting expectations of a year before. The Republic seemed a sinking ship, crazed, in addition, by mutiny in its own crew.

scholarly journals A Film Aesthetic to Discover

2007 ◽  
Vol 17 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 47-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dudley Andrew
Keyword(s):  
Human Agency ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Complete Control ◽  
Image Construction ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The World ◽  
French Theory ◽  
Andre Bazin ◽  
Post War

Abstract Challenging today’s ascendant digital aesthetic, this essay retraces one powerful line of French theory which treats film as an art which “discovers” significance rather than “constructs” meaning. Champions of today’s technology find that the digital at last permits complete control over image construction and therefore over “cinema effects.” Opposed to this aesthetic which targets the audience, the French aesthetic stemming from Roger Leenhardt and André Bazin concerns itself with the world the filmmaker engages. An interplay of presence and absence, as well as of human agency in the non-human environment, characterizes the French aesthetic at each phase of the filmic process: recording, composing and projecting. This article focuses on the central phase, composing, and on the terminological shift from “image” to “shot” picked up after Bazin by the Nouvelle Vague and passed forward to our own day through Serge Daney. In short, there is a Cahiers du cinéma line of thought, applied to questions of editing, which emphasizes the filtering implied in shots and the ellipses implied in their order. Conventional editors, on the other hand, manipulate or juxtapose images (using processes known as “compositing” today). The Cahiers line of thought developed in symbiosis with neo-realism and with a spate of post-war essay films of the “caméra-stylo” sort (Resnais, Franju) wherein editing works to cut away and filter out the inessential so that a mysterious or abstract subject can be felt as beginning to appear. Rivette, Rohmer and Godard have passed this line of thought on to a later generation represented by Philippe Garrel and a still later one for which Arnaud Desplechin stands as a good example.

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