Negotiating a Chinese Federation : : The Exchange of Ideas and Political Collaborations Between China's Men of Guns and Men of Letters, 1919-1923.

• Superior document: Ideas, History, and Modern China
• Author: Guo, Vivienne Xiangwei.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Ideas, History, and Modern China
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 pages)

"This book offers the first comprehensive study of the ways in which China's men of guns (so-called "warlords") and men of letters (May Fourth intellectuals) engaged one another for the making of a Chinese federation between 1919 and 1923. Breaking the constructed dichotomy between the men of guns and men of letters, Vivienne Guo's analysis reappraises Chinese warlordism against the backdrop of the Chinese enlightenment. Exploring the ideological underpinnings and political vigour of the Chinese federalist movement, Negotiating A Chinese Federation provides a fresh interpretation of China's cultural renewal and state-building"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Tables -- 1 Introduction: China's Men of Guns and Men of Letters -- 1 Who Are the Warlords? -- 2 Who Are the May Fourth Intellectuals? -- 3 The Project of Federal Self-governance -- 2 The Point of No Return: Chen Jiongming and the Anarcho-Federalist Blueprint -- 1 The Anarcho-Socialist Mecca: Chen Jiongming and His Huiming Friends -- 2 New Guangdong: Chen Duxiu and the Qunbao Society -- 3 The "Two Chens" Collaboration and Ambiguous "Anti-Warlordism" -- 3 The Moment of Celebration: Zhao Hengti and the Hunan Provincial Constitution -- 1 The Prelude: Tan Yankai and the Self-governance Movement in Hunan -- 2 The Turning Point: The Academic Symposium in Changsha -- 3 The Summit: Zhao Hengti and the Promulgation of the Provincial Constitution -- 4 The Federalist Alliance: Zhang Shizhao, Zhang Taiyan, and Federal Self-governance -- 1 The Beginning: The SSEA and Tiger -- 2 The Catalyst: Sun Yat-sen's Presidential Election -- 3 The National Movement: Federal Self-governance and the Federal Assembly -- 5 The Beginning of the End: Wu Peifu and Good Government -- 1 The Collaboration: Making Good Government with the Good People -- 2 The Breakdown: Wu Peifu's Objection of Federal Self-governance -- 3 Whose Fault? A Lack of Endeavour among the Endeavour Intellectuals -- 6 Into the Warlord Land: The Soviet Emissaries, Dewey, Russell, and the Post-war World -- 1 From Fox to Hedgehog -- 2 Mysterious Visits: The Engagement between Soviet Emissaries and China's Men of Guns -- 3 John Dewey, Bertrand Russell, and May Fourth China -- 4 The Dewey Dynamic: John Dewey's Visits to the Warlord Land -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.