Dardess: Blood & History in China C by John W Dardess (PDF)

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From 1625 to 1627 scholar-officials belonging to a militant Confucianist group known as the Donglin Faction suffered one of the most gruesome political repressions in China’s history. Many were purged from key positions in the central government for their relentless push for a national moral rearmament under the Tianqi emperor. While their martyrs’ deaths won them a lasting reputation for heroism and steadfastness, their opponents are remembered for fatally degrading the quality of Ming political life with their arrests and tortures of Donglin partisans. John Dardess employs a wide range of little-used primary sources (letters, diaries, eyewitness accounts, memorials, imperial edicts) to provide a remarkably detailed narrative of the inner workings of Ming government and of this dramatic period as a whole. Comparing the repression with the Tiananmen demonstrations of 1989, he argues that Tiananmen offers compelling clues to a rereading of the events of the 1620s. Leaders of both movements were less interested in practical reform than in communicating sincere moral feelings to rulers and the public. In the end the protesters succeeded in commemorating their dead and imprisoned and

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Editorial Reviews: About the Author John W. Dardess is professor of history at the University of Kansas.

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⭐Dardess’s book on the Donglin Faction, a super-Confucius group within the Chinese government from 1625-1627, was subject to one of the most brutal oppressions in China’s history. Dardess provides excellent examples of torture, repression, and generally nasty stuff that befell the highly moral Donglins.Dardess uses the example of the government’s treatment of the Donglin as a parallel to the treatment of the protestors in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Basically, he devotes the last chapter to this theory. An interesting theory that I think Dardess proves fairly well. The incident at Tiananmen Square is not an isolated event. It can be traced to the continued repression of democracy and transparency of the Chinese communist government over the years. Similarly, Dardess argues that repression of the Donglin Faction too stems from a parallel issue, though with a much more moral bent. Overall it is an interesting, if dry, read.

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