... New Life Movement Confucian values everyday life ...

... the movement sought to fix everyday life in a second sense by invoking Confucian values to slot people into legible social roles and eliminate the omnipresent possibility of resistance, inscribing feudalistic social hierarchies into the heart of a modernizing society. The movement thereby sought to create...

... Chapter 2 spotlights the ways in which fascists intensify nationalism’s Janus-faced historical imaginary. It specifically identifies tensions between the modernizing ideals of Chinese fascists and their professed desires to revive ancient Confucian values. This position constituted a reaction...