“…The development of populism as a philosophy by the American philosopher John Dewey largely emphasized on the pragmatic application of ideas and the importance of experiences in shaping knowledge and perception in China, which have been entailed in various discourses (Boyte, 2007; Raber, 2020; Zhu, 2019). Various Chinese scholarships re-examining perceptions about Dewey’s influence on China’s intellectual life have shown that Dewey had a huge impact in the processes of learning and thought as well as on various facets on knowledge, theory and practices in Chinese education and intellectual life (Guo, 2023; Gou & Lee, 2023; Liu, 2023; Ye, 2023), as well as Dewey’s pragmatism in Chinese education and its influence on the New Culture Movement (Wang, 2023; Zhu, 2019).…”