The Making and Unmaking of the Chinese Radical Right, 1918-1951

"What does "radical right" mean in China? If it is difficult to understand its meaning in the political discourse of twenty-first century China (as the current CCP regime claims to represent the left and the liberalist forces the right), we could understand it as an enduring ideology specific to the Chinese context in the Republican era. In particular, the Chinese Youth Party with its version of national socialism can be a good lens through which to view this ideology. Incorporating my interview with Mrs. Zhao Yusheng, a minor member of the CYP, I define the "radicalness" and the "right-ness" of the CYP first, and then discuss its historical and historiographical importance in the making and unmaking of the Chinese radical right from the early 1920s to late 1940s"--

List of figures, maps, and tables; Acknowledgements; Note on the text; Chronology; List of abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. Origin of the Chinese political right in the May Fourth; 3. "Young China" in Europe: The rise of the Chinese political right in the age of extremes, 1919-1924; 4. Ideas and politics in warlords' China: The CYP's national socialist movement, 1924-1937; 5. Pen and gun: The Chinese Youth Party's military mobilization, late 1920s-mid-1930s; 6. Going local: The Chinese Youth Party in Sichuan, 1926-1937; 7. Farewell to revolution: from national socialists to democratic socialists; 8. Conclusion; Appendix; References; Index.