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<b>Chinese discourses on the peasant, 1900-1949 By Xiaorong Han</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Both Chen Duxiu, later a co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party, and Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, were critical of the peasants for their ignorance and indifference. Their portrayal was not very different from what Karl Marx wrote about the peasant of India, who cared about nothing but some miserable patch of land and who lived an "undignified, stagnatory, and vegetative life." It is interesting to note that at one point Chen Duxiu and Sun Yat-sen shared the same view about the Boxer Rebellion. Chen attributed the humiliation China suffered after the rebellion of the Boxers in a 1918 article about the demolition in Beijing of the Von Ketteler Monument, buit immediately after the Boxer Rebellion to commemorate the German minister killed by the Boxers. Patriotic Chinese viewed this monument as an extremely humiliating symbol. "How shameful China is! What a curse the Boxers are!" Chen wrote. He warned that the Boxer Rebellion might happen again because the superstition and ignorance behind it still prevailed in China. Sun Yatsen, although praising the Boxers for their spirit of resistance, called the Boxers "bandits," as many educated Chinese of his generation did, and described the Bixer Rebellion as "a widely arrogant and presumptuous action."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>Chinese discourses on the peasant, 1900-1949 By Xiaorong Han</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Both Chen Duxiu, later a co-founder of the Chinese Communist Party, and Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, were critical of the peasants for their ignorance and indifference. Their portrayal was not very different from what Karl Marx wrote about the peasant of India, who cared about nothing but some miserable patch of land and who lived an "undignified, stagnatory, and vegetative life." It is interesting to note that at one point Chen Duxiu and Sun Yat-sen shared the same view about the Boxer Rebellion. Chen attributed the humiliation China suffered after the rebellion of the Boxers in a 1918 article about the demolition in Beijing of the Von Ketteler Monument, buit immediately after the Boxer Rebellion to commemorate the German minister killed by the Boxers. Patriotic Chinese viewed this monument as an extremely humiliating symbol. "How shameful China is! What a curse the Boxers are!" Chen wrote. He warned that the Boxer Rebellion might happen again because the superstition and ignorance behind it still prevailed in China. Sun Yatsen, although praising the Boxers for their spirit of resistance, called the Boxers "bandits," as many educated Chinese of his generation did, and described the Bixer Rebellion as "a widely arrogant and presumptuous action."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->