John Dewey's Social and Political Philosophy in the China Lectures: Introduction

Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 53 (1):3 (2017)
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In 1919–1920 John Dewey visited China, where he extensively lectured. Was had been initially planned as a short trip became a long-lasting experience of social and cultural discovery that lasted nearly two years1. Dewey’s arrival in China coincided with the ouburst of the May 4th Revolution, a nationwide student movement aimed at democratizing Chinese politics and society. Dewey’s Lectuers have to be seen in the context of this context, particularly as several leaders of the May 4th movement had been students of him at Columbia. Friendly dubbed “Mr. Democracy”, Dewey played at the time an important role as intellectual leader, and his series of lecture had been widely publicized in Chinese newspapers and...

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