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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, March 20, 1968
Professor discusses Chinese nationalism
By Cynthia Smith Kansan Staff Reporter
Nationalism has had a short history in China, a history professor from the University of California at Berkeley said Tuesday night.
"The past of nationalism in China is the modern past," Joseph Levenson, professor of history, said in his speech about "The Past and Future of Chinese Nationalism."
Levenson said parai Ls can be drawn between Communist China and China under the Manchu dynasty, but the two differ because of nationalism.
The Manchu dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1912, thought China to be the center of the world. The Communists have ruled China since 1949 and see China as a nation among nations, Levenson said.
Levenson said there were similarities in the Manchu takeover and the Communist takeover in China. They both involved an invasion of outside forces, rebellion within and the defection of a Chinese general, he said.
In the Manchu takeover, the Manchus were the invading force. A Ming general defected and helped the Manchus penetrate the Great Wall. Peasant rebels captured Peking, and held it until the Manchus took over, Levenson said.
In the Communist takeover, the Japanese were the invading force. The Communist party was the rebel force. General Wung Chiang Wei was the defector, Levenson said.
Levenson said the Communist revolution was a cultural as well as a political revolution. The Communists broke with the Confucian tradition in China. They felt the Confucian tradition weakened nationalism, Levenson said.
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The Manchu dynasty did not break the Confucian tradition. They became essentially Chinese in order to rule China. They still held the concept that China was the center of the world.
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Levenson said the concept of nationalism began to develop in China in the nineteenth century when the Western nations began invading China and imposing a series of unequal treaties. China began to realize that it was not the only civilized nation in the world. It began to see itself as a nation that needed to advance.
Levenson said the bourgeoisie that Communists had to fight was an international bourgeoisie, rather than a national one. China had begun to become cosmopolitan, he said. They had an interest in European literature and Western technology.
The Communists said the Kuo-mintang party, which ruled China from 1927 to 1949, stiffled nationalism in China because of their failure to repel the Japanese invasion of China which began in 1933, Levenson said.
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The Communist problem was to find a way to break with tradition and remain Chinese, Levenson said. The leaders feared an adoption of Western technology would lead to an adoption of Western ideology.
100 will discuss new penal plan
Nearly 100 welfare department staff members, county attorneys, police officers, and state and local parole and probation officers will attend the Seminar on Probation and Parole March 28 and 29 in the Kansas Union Jayhawk Room
The participants will discuss new developments in the Kansas penal system, new resources available for implementing parole programs, treatment, and supervision of alcoholic offenders, frequent complaints about probation and parole, approaches to individual and group counseling, and the use of volunteers in the parole process.
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At this time, only seven states—Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, New York, and Massachussetts—are expected to withstand Wallace's effect on both party tickets by November, 1968.
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In California primary The most significant effect of the American Independent Party has been in California, where Republican and Democratic conservatives were swayed to the Wallace movement, enabling he former governor to get on the primary ballot in that state.
The impact of the Wallace
campaign in the midwest will be damaging; this part of the country being the heart of the Bible Belt, haven of the conservative vote, and center of Republican indecision and Democratic disenchantment with the Johnson administration.
At this time it seems that Wallace may contribute to the reelection of President Johnson. But, as disenchanted voters await the Republican nomination and a final word from Sen. Robert Kennedy, critics and politicians can only sit and watch the Wallace campaign in awe.
Next: Eugene McCarthy.
Room 101?
What is it? O'Brien's Pad? No.
But, Room 101 really does exist
It is in the Kansas Union just off the main lobby.
It is the scene of Reading Dynamics demonstrations (Tonight at 7:00 & 8:15 p.m.)
Room 101? See you there. Don't wait until 1984.
Individual Tickets for THE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS are now on sale in the SUA office in the Kansas Union.
MARK VAN DOREN—Friday, March 22, 4:00 p.m. $.50 Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet
OSCAR PETERSON—Sunday, March 24, 8:00 p.m. $2.00 The reason for Oscar Peterson's fantastic success and popularity is his complete mastery of the piano.
ED EMSHWILLER—Monday, March 25, 8:00 p.m. $ .75 Underground film "Relativity"-"a metaphorical work about man's place in the universe."
HARKNESS BALLET—Tuesday, March 26,8:00 p.m. Free Admission In the front ranks of American ballet companies with KU-ID
HENRY GALDZAHLER—Wednesday, March 27, 8:00 p.m. $ .75 Clear perception of art in any form
AL CAPP-Thursday, March 28, 8:00 p.m. $1.50 "Raw truth amazes Americans." He will answer written questions submitted prior to his performance.
NEW CINEMA FESTIVAL—Friday, March 28, 8:00 p.m. $1.00 The experience is a combination of the pleasing,the shocking,the the amusing,the horrifying,the commonplace,and the bizarre.
ELLA FITZGERALD—Saturday, March 30, 8:00 p.m. $3.00 "The foremost female vocalist...has a tremendous capability to communicate through music.