摘要
Mobility and mutability; appeals for public support; desires to construct public opinion; claims to reflect the public will. Thus does David Strand describe the early years of the Republic of China from about 1912 to 1924, when political institutions failed but a republican political culture was nonetheless established. Mobility refers to activists and politicians and soldiers who moved all around the country and sometimes abroad, and mutability to their capacity to take on different roles, from conspirator to journalist to senator. Strand＇s richly textured study conveys the political passions of this period, and argues that it shaped how voices would be subsequently raised against even the harshest political oppression
Mobility and mutability; appeals for public support; desires to construct public opinion; claims to reflect the public will. Thus does David Strand describe the early years of the Republic of China from about 1912 to 1924, when political institutions failed but a republican political culture was nonetheless established. Mobility refers to activists and politicians and soldiers who moved all around the country and sometimes abroad, and mutability to their capacity to take on different roles, from conspirator to journalist to senator. Strand＇s richly textured study conveys the political passions of this period, and argues that it shaped how voices would be subsequently raised against even the harshest political oppression
