Revolutionary Nativism
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Revolutionary Nativism

Fascism and Culture in China, 1925-1937

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Revolutionary Nativism

Fascism and Culture in China, 1925-1937

About this book

In Revolutionary Nativism Maggie Clinton traces the history and cultural politics of fascist organizations that operated under the umbrella of the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD) during the 1920s and 1930s. Clinton argues that fascism was not imported to China from Europe or Japan; rather it emerged from the charged social conditions that prevailed in the country's southern and coastal regions during the interwar period. These fascist groups were led by young militants who believed that reviving China's Confucian "national spirit" could foster the discipline and social cohesion necessary to defend China against imperialism and Communism and to develop formidable industrial and military capacities, thereby securing national strength in a competitive international arena. Fascists within the GMD deployed modernist aesthetics in their literature and art while justifying their anti-Communist violence with nativist discourse. Showing how the GMD's fascist factions popularized a virulently nationalist rhetoric that linked Confucianism with a specific path of industrial development, Clinton sheds new light on the complex dynamics of Chinese nationalism and modernity.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Introduction
  5. 1. Hiding in Plain Sight: Fascist Factions during the Nanjing Decade
  6. 2. Spirit Is Eternal: Cultural Revolution from the Right
  7. 3. Spiritual Offenses: The Nativist Prose of Counterinsurgency
  8. 4. Fixing the Everyday: The New Life Movement and Taylorized Modernity
  9. 5. Literature and Arts for the Nation
  10. Conclusion
  11. List of Characters for Selected Romanized Terms
  12. Notes
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index