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Article: From The May Fourth Movement to Communist Revolution: Guo Moruo and the Chinese Path to Communism.(Book review)
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- June 22, 2009
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From The May Fourth Movement to Communist Revolution: Guo Moruo and the Chinese Path to Communism. By Xiaoming Chen. (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 2007. Pp. xi, 156. $60.00.)
In 1925 Guo Moruo [1892-1978], who was giving up medicine to pursue a literary career and who had converted to Communism one year earlier, commended Confucius "for having already developed a concept of Communism over two thousand years ago" (101). To readers who follow current developments in China in popular magazines, newspapers, or blogs, this may no longer seem so surprising; Confucius has made a comeback. In recent years, statues of him have gone up across China, and ...