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This timeline of modern American conservatism lists important events, developments and occurrences that have affected conservatism in the United States. With the decline of the conservative wing of the Democratic Party after 1960, the movement is most closely associated with the Republican Party (GOP).
In terms of style the Federalists distrusted the public, thought the elite should be in charge, and favored national power over state power. Republicans distrusted Britain, bankers, merchants, and did not want a powerful national government. The Federalists—notably Hamilton, were distrustful of "the people", the French, and the Republicans. [35]
The harsh realities of the Opium Wars, the unequal treaties, and the mid-century mass uprisings of the Taiping Rebellion caused Qing officials to recognize the need to strengthen China. The Tongzhi Restoration was named for the Tongzhi Emperor (r. 1861–1875), and was engineered by the young emperor's mother, the Empress Dowager Cixi (1835 ...
The fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911 marked the final failure of the Confucian moral order, and it did much to make Confucianism synonymous with political and social conservatism in the minds of Chinese intellectuals. This association of conservatism and Confucianism lent to the iconoclastic nature of Chinese intellectual thought during the ...
The New Middle Kingdom: China and the Early American Romance of Free Trade (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017). Kissinger, Henry. On China (2011) excerpt; Latourette, Kenneth Scott. The history of early relations between the United States and China, 1784–1844 (1917) online; Li, Jing. China's America: The Chinese View the United States ...
Historically, the conservative has favored liberty for the higher orders and constraint for the lower orders." And, he goes on, it has historically defined itself against the movements it opposes.
In recent decades, Chinese conservatism has experienced a national revival. [134] The ancient schools of Confucianism and Legalism have made a return into mainstream Chinese thought. [ 135 ] [ 136 ] [ 137 ] Wang Huning , widely regarded as the grey eminence and chief ideologue of the CCP, has criticized aspects of Marxism and recommended that ...
The values the Republican Party once cherished and promoted have been corrupted and abandoned