IX. 20th Century China
from the
Tao of China
Home
Questions or Comments?
China Papers
Chinese Alchemy & Monkey
Tao of China
Articles
Chapter 56: The Modern Era of Fragmentation (1911-1950 CE)
The Chinese at the beginning of the 20th century
The plight of the peasantry
Dr. Sun Zhongshan, Nationalism and Democracy (1911>15)
The European Civil War & Carving up China (1915)
An attempt at democracy
Rejected by the West, assisted by Russia
Jiang Jieshi & the Northern Campaign (1925>27)
Mao Zedong (1893-1976)
An expanding ken of Chinese government
Who has the Mandate of Heaven?
Inevitable split between labor and business (1927)
Darkest before the dawn (1927-1933) Annihilation campaigns
6,000 Mile March (1934-35)
The Japanese Occupation & China’s War of Resistance (1937-1945)
China’s Civil War (1946-1949)
Chapter 57: A brief history – Tibet & her Conquerors
The Mongols and Tibet: the political interconnection (1200s>1700s)
The Manchus of China enter Tibetan politics (1700s>1911)
Enter the British (late 1700s>early 1900s)
Dalai vs. Panchen Lama – West vs. East (20
th
century)
The Honeymoon between Red China & Tibet (1951>1956)
Tibetan Heaven, over 40 years of relative autonomy (1911-1956)
Tibetan Power Politics: Internal Religion aligns with External Forces
Chapter 58: Red China (1949-> present)
Red China & the Korean War (1950-1953)
Global Significance of the Chinese Communist Revolution
Land redistribution & the landlord purge
The collectivization of industry: The Anti Campaigns (1951-1952)
Agricultural Cooperatives (1955-1957) & anti-Intellectualism
The Great Leap Forward (1957-1958) & restructuring the family
The Great Leap Backward (1959-1960)
From roses to guns in Tibet (1956-1959)
The Cultural Revolution Group (1962-1966)
The Red Guards (1966-1968)
The Rise & Fall of the Gang of Four (1969-1978)
Through to Tiananmen Square & beyond (1978->)
Chapter 59: The Good, the Bad, & the Same of Communist China
The Bad: Repression of human rights
Harsh measures to stabilize & modernize China
The Good & Bad of abandoning the Confucian Classics
The Good & Bad of Religious intolerance
Red China – part of dynastic tradition, not democratic
Imperial Precedents for strategies of Chinese Communism
Chapter 60: History of Taijiquan
Chinese culture encoded in Tai Chi movements
Tai Chi, the form, & Taiji, the concept
Taiji’s place in Yin-Yang theory
Tai Chi Chuan, Grand Ultimate Boxing
13 phases boxing
Tai Chi’s Legendary & Buddhist beginnings
Chang San Feng & Wu Tang Mountain
Tai Chi’s emergence into history – Chen to Yang
A Meta-Context for the China Papers