Further information: The modern Chinese intellectual tradition [ ] The modern Chinese intellectual tradition of the turn of the twentieth century is defined by two central concepts: and. Iconoclastic revolution/anti-Confucianism [ ] By the turn of the twentieth century, a proportionately small yet socially significant cross-section of China's traditional elite (i.e. Landlords and bureaucrats) found themselves increasingly skeptical of the efficacy and even the moral validity of. These skeptical iconoclasts formed a new segment of Chinese society, a modern intelligentsia, whose arrival, or as historian of China would label it, their defection, heralded the beginning of the destruction of the gentry as a social class in China.

The fall of the in 1911 marked the final failure of the Confucian moral order and it did much to make Confucianism synonymous with political and in the minds of Chinese intellectuals. It was this association of conservatism and Confucianism which lent to the iconoclastic nature of Chinese intellectual thought during the first decades of the twentieth century. Surabhi Tv Serial Free Download on this page. Chinese iconoclasm was expressed most clearly and vociferously by during the which occurred between 1915 and 1919. Proposing the 'total destruction of the traditions and values of the past', the New Culture Movement was spearheaded by the New Youth, a periodical which was published by Chen Duxiu and was profoundly influential on the young, whose first published work appeared on the magazine's pages. Nationalism and the appeal of Marxism [ ] Along with iconoclasm, radical anti-imperialism dominated the Chinese intellectual tradition and slowly evolved into a fierce nationalist fervor which influenced Mao's philosophy immensely and was crucial in adapting Marxism to the Chinese model. Vital to understanding Chinese nationalist sentiments of the time is the, which was signed in 1919.