Cheng Kuan-ying (1841–1920): A Source of Sun Yat-sen's Nationalist Ideology?

Chong, Key Ray

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“…After writing an initial draft of his 1894 memo, Sun also visited Zheng in Shanghai on his way to deliver it to Li, an occasion where he also met Wang Tao. Wang helped to edit Sun's memo and provided him with an introduction to a member of Li's secretariat (Bergère 1994, p. 39;Chong 1969). After Sun subsequently became more familiar with foreign developmentalist ideas, he continued to draw on the ideas of these earlier Chinese thinkers, highlighting the need for China to succeed in 'commercial war' in order to avoid a 'drain' of the country's wealth (Sun [1921, p. 186, Sun 1922.…”

Section: Building On This Chinese Traditionmentioning

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Neglected Chinese Origins of East Asian Developmentalism

Helleiner

2021

New Political Economy

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East Asian developmentalism is often depicted as a derivative ideology with its origins in the diffusion of Western thought to the region, first to Japan after the 1868 Meiji Restoration and then to the rest of the region in the twentieth century following the Japanese example. Recent scholarship has challenged that perspective by highlighting important endogenous roots of the developmentalist ideology of Meiji Japan. This paper shows that Chinese developmentalism also has deep local origins in China's own intellectual history that long predated the importation of Western (and Japanese) political economy to the country in the early twentieth century. It also demonstrates that locally-originated Chinese developmentalist ideology diffused beyond China's borders in ways that influenced the emergence of 'developmental mindsets' elsewhere in the East Asia region in the nineteenth century, including in Meiji Japan. Rather than being a laggard in the regional embrace of developmentalist ideology diffusing from the West, China was a key source and exporter of this ideology to the region. For these reasons, Chinese thinkers deserve a more prominent place in histories of the origins of East Asian developmentalism, and of developmentalist thought in general.

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Section: Building On This Chinese Traditionmentioning

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Neglected Chinese Origins of East Asian Developmentalism

Helleiner

2021

New Political Economy

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“…These links that Sun drew between economic development and Chinese autonomy and power were strongly influenced by Chinese ‘wealth and power’ reformist thinkers of the late 19 th century, particularly Zheng Guanying who had been advocating for the country's economic modernization on similar grounds since the 1870s (Chong, ; Wu, ). Sun also followed Zheng in arguing that Chinese nationalism needed to be strengthened among the Chinese people in order to fight foreign domination effectively.…”

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Multilateral Development Finance in Non‐Western Thought: From Before Bretton Woods to Beyond

Helleiner¹

2019

Development and Change

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Recent initiatives of China and other emerging powers to create new multilateral development lending institutions (MDLIs) are often portrayed as efforts to build upon and/or reform an idea pioneered by Western officials during the Bretton Woods negotiations. However, recent literature has shown that support for MDLIs also had deeper non‐Western roots in the pre‐Bretton Woods era. What led thinkers outside the West to propose MDLIs in that earlier period? How might their ideas be relevant to current non‐Western initiatives to create new MDLIs? This article addresses these questions with a special focus on the ideas of China's Sun Yat‐sen (1866–1925) and Peru's Víctor Raúl Haya de la Torre (1895–1979). Although their intellectual journeys were quite distinct and their specific proposals differed, these two thinkers advocated the creation of MDLIs for similar reasons that stemmed from their anti‐imperialist sentiments. Their ideas find some echoes in current non‐Western initiatives.

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The Legacy of Sun Yat-sen's Railway Plans

1987

The China Quarterly

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Dr Sun Yat-sen is known both as a revolutionary and as a planner. As a revolutionary, he is honoured by many for being the father of modern China, whereas his development plans are often criticized for their naivete and idealism. The main focus of Sun's proposals for development was the expansion of China's railways, and it is often assumed that his 1921 railway plan map has had a significant impact on the contemporary network. This assumption appears to have originated in the work of Victor Lippit who stated that Sun's. plans influenced Nationalist proposals of the 1940s and those plans heavily influenced communist railway development in the 1950s.1 Lippit notes that 80 per cent of the mileage completed between 1950 and 1958 was included in Nationalist projections of the early 1940s and that the early 1960s was a period of little mainline development. Indeed, if Sun Yat-sen's map were taken as the base instead of the 1940s‘ plan, Lippit would have found an even higher correspondence. Twenty years have elapsed since Lippit made his study and the purpose of this article will be to reassess the significance of Sun Yat-sen's plans for the development of thec Chinese railway network up to the mid 1980s, and to give some idea of the influence of Sun's writings on the contemporary and future network.

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Cheng Kuan-ying (1841–1920): A Source of Sun Yat-sen's Nationalist Ideology?

Cited by 6 publications

References 2 publications

Neglected Chinese Origins of East Asian Developmentalism

Neglected Chinese Origins of East Asian Developmentalism

Multilateral Development Finance in Non‐Western Thought: From Before Bretton Woods to Beyond

The Legacy of Sun Yat-sen's Railway Plans

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