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Liberalism "correction"

Posted on:2012-08-04Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L XiaoFull Text:PDF
GTID:2206330335498481Subject:China's modern history
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After World Warâ…¡, lots of intellectuals (even all over the world), being agreed by mere coincidence, made an appeal at least in principle to the society for supports to build the "political democracy" and also "economic equality'This intellectual movement almost formed a grand social tendency, liberalism intellectuals recurredto socialism theory for guarding their own academic standpoints. With the help came from socialism, they spared no effort to modify the old liberalism theory framework, and made it accommodated its shape to the new tide. This knowledge trend can be called as a notable "alienation", and China was also deeply influenced by the international environment, in order to withstand the impact from Soviet Russia's communism "up-growth" condition.But when the CPC-KMT civil war entered into a deadlock situation and the Cold War structure was formulated and came true, Chinese liberalism intellectuals tried their best to re-correct their former modification, and brought liberalism theory back to the right track.This MA paper mainly focused on TsiangT'ing-fu's attitude transformation which towards and off socialism and the Henry Wallace's politics transition about his liberalism allegation (especially emphasize on its China echo). The author hoped that all these work could offer readers a special observational dimension about liberalism doctrinal interpretation during late 1940s China, and contribute some new ideas to the existing academic achievement, clarify some essential myths in the history of Modern China political thoughts.
Keywords/Search Tags:Liberalism, Socialism political democracy economic equality, Henry Wallace, TsiangT'ing-fu
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