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The New Life Movement (Chinese: 新生活運動; Wade–Giles: Hsin 1 Shêng 1 huo 2 Yün 4 tung 5) was a government-led civic campaign in the 1930s Republic of China to promote cultural reform and Neo-Confucian social morality and to ultimately unite China under a centralised ideology following the emergence of ideological challenges to the status quo.
In Jiangxi, the new life movement was driven by the motivation of Chiang Kai-Shek and his encirclement campaigns to eradicate communism in the province. The movement was intended to mobilise society against communism and provide a viable alternative system of administration. Xiong Shihui was the long term governor of Jiangxi in between 1931 and ...
Created in 1934, the New Life Movement was a campaign to revive Confucianism in China and implement several educational and financial reforms. [11] Hemenway was a strong supporter of the movement, though she did not realize at the time that it was inspired as opposition to the nation’s growing Communist Party. Her dedication to the policy ...
After the Kuomintang succeeded in forming a nominal central government in 1930, Yan encouraged Nationalist principles that he viewed as socially beneficial. In the 1930s, he attempted to set up in every village a "Good People's Movement" to promote the values of Chiang's New Life Movement. The values included honesty, friendliness, dignity ...
In a speech in 1934, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek invoked the importance of the four principles as a guide for the New Life Movement. [5] The movement was an attempt to reintroduce Confucian principles into everyday life in China as a means to create national unity and act as a bulwark against communism.
A shorter version of the essay was published in the New York Times in December 2012). Chinese English (translated by ChinaChange.org) New Citizens' Movement, a "manifesto" published on May 29, 2012. Chinese English(translated by ChinaChange.org) To Build a Free China: A Citizen's Journey, Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder, Colorado, 2017. [35]
St. Petersburg, Russia. During the 18th century, the Rococo movement developed as a way of pushing back against the strict, symmetrical Baroque style that was dominant at the time.
The New Life Movement was a government-led civic movement in 1930s China initiated by Chiang Kai-shek to promote cultural reform and Neo-Confucian social morality and to ultimately unite China under a centralized ideology following the emergence of ideological challenges to the status quo. The Movement attempted to counter threats of Western ...