The Chinese Proteus - 1.Chester C. Tan: Chinese Political Thought in the Twentieth Century. (Garden City: Anchor Books, 1971. Pp. viii, 390, $1.95.) - 2.Shirley Garrett: Social Reformers in Urban China: The Chinese YMCA, 1895–1926. (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1970. Pp. 221, $7.50.)

1973 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-144
Author(s):  
Peter Moody
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
Urban China ◽  
Garden City ◽  
Chinese Political Thought ◽  
Social Reformers

Chinese Political Thought in the Twentieth Century.

1972 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 414
Author(s):  
Ping-chia Kuo ◽  
Chester C. Tan ◽  
Derek J. Waller
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Chinese Political Thought

American Snobs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Coit
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Edith Wharton ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
The Political ◽  
Henry Adams

Arguing that Henry Adams, Henry James and Edith Wharton articulated their political thought in response to the liberalism that reigned in Boston and, more specifically, at Harvard University, American Snobs shows how each of these authors interrogated that liberalism's arguments for education, democracy and the political duties of the cultivated elite. Coit shows that the works of these authors contributed to a realist critique of a liberal New England idealism that fed into the narrative about 'the genteel tradition', which shaped the study of US literature during the twentieth century.

Breeding Better Babies in the Eugenic Garden City: ‘Municipal Darwinism’ and the (Anti)Cosmopolitan Utopia in the early Twentieth Century

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-290 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Currell
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Core Beliefs ◽  
Garden City ◽  
New Town ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
National Body ◽  
Practical Level ◽  
The Way

Showing how ‘modernist cosmopolitanism’ coexisted with an anti-cosmopolitan municipal control this essay looks at the way utopian ideals about breeding better humans entered into new town and city planning in the early twentieth century. An experiment in eugenic garden city planning which took place in Strasbourg, France, in the 1920s provided a model for modern planning that was keenly observed by the international eugenics movement as well as city planners. The comparative approach taken in this essay shows that while core beliefs about degeneration and the importance of eugenics to improve the national ‘body’ were often transnational and cosmopolitan, attempts to implement eugenic beliefs on a practical level were shaped by national and regional circumstances that were on many levels anti-cosmopolitan. As a way of assuaging the tensions between the local and the global, as well as the traditional with the modern, this unique and now forgotten experiment in eugenic city planning aimed to show that both preservation and progress could succeed at the same time.

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