Research Article

Ideological Quest in Nationalist China: Kemalism and the “New Life Movement

Volume: 7 Number: 1 June 30, 2025
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Ideological Quest in Nationalist China: Kemalism and the “New Life Movement

Abstract

In this study, firstly, the culture policies implemented by Chiang Kai-Shek who the leader of the authoritarian-nationalist single-party government in the Republic of China, under the name of "New Life Movement" were examined. Seeking a new path for China in which outside the existing political systems in the Western world, Chiang examined Kemalism and the Republican People's Party (RPP) as examples and drew attention to the connections between his own ideas and Kemalism. The administrators of these republican regimes sought modernization formulas that were suitable for their own historical conditions, and the Chinese leadership saw Kemalism as the ideology closest to themselves. The interest of the Guomingdang (GMD) to the RPP inclueded the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), in the person of Mao Zedong, into the discussion of Kemal Atatürk and Kemalism. In this article, Chiang Kai-shek's political-cultural manner and writings on the citizen project are examined together with the objections of Mao, accompanied by the visits of the representatives of the Republic of China to Turkey and the "Turkey and RPP instructions" conveyed to them by the GMD center, and discussed in comparison with RPP policies in Atatürk's period.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Studies of Asian Society, Regional Studies

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

June 30, 2025

Submission Date

June 7, 2025

Acceptance Date

June 29, 2025

Published in Issue

Year 2025 Volume: 7 Number: 1

APA
Ulusoy, C. (2025). Ideological Quest in Nationalist China: Kemalism and the “New Life Movement. Cappadocia Journal of Area Studies, 7(1), 82-96. https://izlik.org/JA76ES37RN
AMA
1.Ulusoy C. Ideological Quest in Nationalist China: Kemalism and the “New Life Movement. CJAS. 2025;7(1):82-96. https://izlik.org/JA76ES37RN
Chicago
Ulusoy, Can. 2025. “Ideological Quest in Nationalist China: Kemalism and the “New Life Movement”. Cappadocia Journal of Area Studies 7 (1): 82-96. https://izlik.org/JA76ES37RN.
EndNote
Ulusoy C (June 1, 2025) Ideological Quest in Nationalist China: Kemalism and the “New Life Movement. Cappadocia Journal of Area Studies 7 1 82–96.
IEEE
[1]C. Ulusoy, “Ideological Quest in Nationalist China: Kemalism and the “New Life Movement”, CJAS, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 82–96, June 2025, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA76ES37RN
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Ulusoy, Can. “Ideological Quest in Nationalist China: Kemalism and the “New Life Movement”. Cappadocia Journal of Area Studies 7/1 (June 1, 2025): 82-96. https://izlik.org/JA76ES37RN.
JAMA
1.Ulusoy C. Ideological Quest in Nationalist China: Kemalism and the “New Life Movement. CJAS. 2025;7:82–96.
MLA
Ulusoy, Can. “Ideological Quest in Nationalist China: Kemalism and the “New Life Movement”. Cappadocia Journal of Area Studies, vol. 7, no. 1, June 2025, pp. 82-96, https://izlik.org/JA76ES37RN.
Vancouver
1.Can Ulusoy. Ideological Quest in Nationalist China: Kemalism and the “New Life Movement. CJAS [Internet]. 2025 Jun. 1;7(1):82-96. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA76ES37RN