Li, Dajia, "1920 Niandai chuqi shanghai shangren de minzhi yundong: dui junfa shiqi shangren zhengzhi liliang de chongxin pinggu" [The Shanghai merchants' popular government movement of the early 1920's: a reevaluation of merchants' political power during the warlord period] (1999)

Title : "1920 Niandai chuqi shanghai shangren de minzhi yundong: dui junfa shiqi shangren zhengzhi liliang de chongxin pinggu" [The Shanghai merchants' popular government movement of the early 1920's: a reevaluation of merchants' political power during the warlord period]

Author(s) : Li, Dajia

Year : 1999

Type : Journal article

Subject : History

Keywords : political

Journal : Zhongyang yanjiuyuan xiandaishi yanjiusuo jikan (Bulletin of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica)

Volume : 32

Start page : 291

End page : 347

Language:Name : Chinese

Support : Print

Abstract : Some historians assert that merchants gained political power in the warlordism and weak government conditions of early 1920's China, but the experience of Shanghai merchants belies this view. Although they participated in popular self-government movement activities (such as the Eight Organizations' National Convention, 1921-22, and peace and troop removal efforts), the merchants' role was secondary, and the movements' gentry leaders found solutions to every political problem they faced to be blocked by further questions related to power and authority.