Unravelling the Threads: Chinese Anarchism and its Fall
Studies of the ideological melting pot that was early 20th century China have long focussed on the two dominant ideologies of the time: communism and nationalism. However, recent scholarship in western academia has increasingly recognised the significant influence of anarchism in Chinese socialist thought and China’s wider political discourse. This video will explore the origins of the Chinese anarchist movements, its significant figures, and analyse its fall. Music from Hoobeza: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp1sxMI-v4XfUEWUrbTpo6w Further reading: Ba, Jin. ‘Chinese Anarchism and the Problem of Organization’ (1907) Dirlik, Arif. ‘”The New Culture Movement Revisited”: Anarchism and the Idea of Social Revolution in New Culture Thinking’, Modern China, 11:3 (1985), 252. Dirlik, Arif. ‘”The Path not Taken”: The Anarchist Alternative in Chinese Socialism, 1921-1927’, International Review of Social History, 34:1 (1989) Dirlik, Arif. ‘“Vision and Revolution”: Anarchism in Chinese Revolutionary Thought on the Eve of the 1911 Revolution’, 12:2 (1986) Dirlik, Arif. ‘Anarchism and the Question of Place: thoughts from the Chinese experience’, in Steven Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt, (eds.), Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940 (Leiden, 2010) Dirlik, Arif. Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution (Berkeley, 1991) Hsu, Rachel Hui-Chi. ‘“Spiritual Mother and Intellectual Sons”: Emma Goldman and Young Chinese Anarchists’, Twentieth-Century China, 46:3 (2021) Jiang, Yihua. ‘A Brief History of Chinse Socialist Thought in the Past Century, Journal of Modern Chinese History, 6:2 (2012) Krebs, Edward. Shifu, Soul of Chinese Anarchism (Oxford, 1998) Müller, Gotelind. ‘Anarchism and Syndicalism in China’, in Marcel van der Linden (ed.), The Cambridge History of Socialism (Cambridge, 2022) Pong, David. ‘Anarchism’, in David Pong (ed.), Encyclopedia of Modern China (Detroit, 2009) Ritzinger, Justin. ‘Portrait of the Master as a Young Anarchist’, Anarchy in the Pure Land: Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism (New York, 2017) Wu, Zhihui. Clarifying the Meaning of Revolution Through Socialism (Paris, 1907). Yu, George, and Scalapino, Robert. The Chinese Anarchist Movement (Berkeley, 1961) Zarrow, Peter. Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture (New York, 1990) Zhe, Lu. Zhongguo Wuzhengfu Zhuyi Shi (History of Chinese Anarchism) (Fujian, 1989) #history #politics #anarchism #communism #economics #chinesehistory #historyofchina #qingdynasty
Studies of the ideological melting pot that was early 20th century China have long focussed on the two dominant ideologies of the time: communism and nationalism. However, recent scholarship in western academia has increasingly recognised the significant influence of anarchism in Chinese socialist thought and China’s wider political discourse. This video will explore the origins of the Chinese anarchist movements, its significant figures, and analyse its fall. Music from Hoobeza: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp1sxMI-v4XfUEWUrbTpo6w Further reading: Ba, Jin. ‘Chinese Anarchism and the Problem of Organization’ (1907) Dirlik, Arif. ‘”The New Culture Movement Revisited”: Anarchism and the Idea of Social Revolution in New Culture Thinking’, Modern China, 11:3 (1985), 252. Dirlik, Arif. ‘”The Path not Taken”: The Anarchist Alternative in Chinese Socialism, 1921-1927’, International Review of Social History, 34:1 (1989) Dirlik, Arif. ‘“Vision and Revolution”: Anarchism in Chinese Revolutionary Thought on the Eve of the 1911 Revolution’, 12:2 (1986) Dirlik, Arif. ‘Anarchism and the Question of Place: thoughts from the Chinese experience’, in Steven Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt, (eds.), Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940 (Leiden, 2010) Dirlik, Arif. Anarchism in the Chinese Revolution (Berkeley, 1991) Hsu, Rachel Hui-Chi. ‘“Spiritual Mother and Intellectual Sons”: Emma Goldman and Young Chinese Anarchists’, Twentieth-Century China, 46:3 (2021) Jiang, Yihua. ‘A Brief History of Chinse Socialist Thought in the Past Century, Journal of Modern Chinese History, 6:2 (2012) Krebs, Edward. Shifu, Soul of Chinese Anarchism (Oxford, 1998) Müller, Gotelind. ‘Anarchism and Syndicalism in China’, in Marcel van der Linden (ed.), The Cambridge History of Socialism (Cambridge, 2022) Pong, David. ‘Anarchism’, in David Pong (ed.), Encyclopedia of Modern China (Detroit, 2009) Ritzinger, Justin. ‘Portrait of the Master as a Young Anarchist’, Anarchy in the Pure Land: Reinventing the Cult of Maitreya in Modern Chinese Buddhism (New York, 2017) Wu, Zhihui. Clarifying the Meaning of Revolution Through Socialism (Paris, 1907). Yu, George, and Scalapino, Robert. The Chinese Anarchist Movement (Berkeley, 1961) Zarrow, Peter. Anarchism and Chinese Political Culture (New York, 1990) Zhe, Lu. Zhongguo Wuzhengfu Zhuyi Shi (History of Chinese Anarchism) (Fujian, 1989) #history #politics #anarchism #communism #economics #chinesehistory #historyofchina #qingdynasty