TY - JOUR
T1 - Making the "Good Government" with the "Good People": Collaboration Between General Wu Peifu and Endeavor Intellectuals, 1920–1922
T2 - Collaboration Between General Wu Peifu and Endeavor Intellectuals, 1920–1922
AU - Guo, Vivienne Xiangwei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 Twentieth Century China Journal, Inc.
PY - 2022/5
Y1 - 2022/5
N2 - This article examines the collaborative project between Wu Peifu and a group of promi-nent intellectuals led by Hu Shi at Peking University to create a “Good Government” (Haozhengfu) between 1920 and 1922. Challenging the conventional historiography that has either exaggerated the antithesis between warlords and intellectuals or studied them as two separate groups with little social, political, and ideological overlap, this article argues that the Good Government movement is a tangible testimony to their active and constructive ideological engagement and to their intensive networking, through which their social and cultural capital was quickly converted into political power and impact. Even when their collaboration broke down due to their different views on federalism, Wu Peifu’s political thoughts still formed an integral part of the prevailing ideological commitment toward the Good Government.
AB - This article examines the collaborative project between Wu Peifu and a group of promi-nent intellectuals led by Hu Shi at Peking University to create a “Good Government” (Haozhengfu) between 1920 and 1922. Challenging the conventional historiography that has either exaggerated the antithesis between warlords and intellectuals or studied them as two separate groups with little social, political, and ideological overlap, this article argues that the Good Government movement is a tangible testimony to their active and constructive ideological engagement and to their intensive networking, through which their social and cultural capital was quickly converted into political power and impact. Even when their collaboration broke down due to their different views on federalism, Wu Peifu’s political thoughts still formed an integral part of the prevailing ideological commitment toward the Good Government.
KW - Endeavor
KW - federalism
KW - Hu Shi
KW - May Fourth
KW - warlords
KW - Wu Peifu
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85130059231&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1353/tcc.2022.0023
DO - 10.1353/tcc.2022.0023
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85130059231
SN - 1521-5385
VL - 47
SP - 112
EP - 132
JO - Twentieth-Century China
JF - Twentieth-Century China
IS - 2
ER -