The Chinese Cultural Renaissance or the Chinese Cultural Renaissance Movement was a movement promoted in Taiwan

Taiwan

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 to undo the cultural destructions caused by the Communist Party of China

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 during the Cultural revolution

Cultural Revolution

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.

Movement

Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang Kai-shek

Chiang Kai-shek was a political and military leader of 20th century China. He is known as Jiǎng Jièshí or Jiǎng Zhōngzhèng in Mandarin....

 launched the movement on November 1966 - on the 100th anniversary of Sun Yat-sen

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's birthday - by publicly announcing the official start of the renaissance movement. It was the Kuomintang

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's first structured plan for cultural development on Taiwan. Chiang himself was the head of the movement promotion council. President Lee Teng-hui

Lee Teng-hui

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 was also involved in the movement and served as the president for the cultural renaissance.

Chiang announced ten goals:

1. To improve educational standards and promote family education with an emphasis on the Confucian
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    principles of filial duty and fraternal love
2. To reissue Chinese classic literary
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    works and translate important works with a view toward disseminating Chinese culture abroad.
3. To encourage the creation of new literary and art works that are relevant to contemporary society and informed by the ideals of the cultural renaissance
4. To launch the government planning and construction of new theaters, opera
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    houses, auditoriums, and art galleries, as well as stadiums throughout the country, and to improve existing facilities.
5. To utilize all mass media for the promotion of the cultural renaissance with an emphasis upon encouraging good customs and morals.
6. To guide the modernization of national life under the influence of the Confucian Principles of the "Four Social Controls" (propriety, rectitude, honesty and a sense of shame) and the "Eight Virtues" (Loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, love, faithfulness, justice, harmony and peace), a goal to be achieved with the help of the newly launched New Life Movement
   New Life Movement
   The New Life Movement was set up by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his wife Soong May-ling in February 1934, with the help of the Blue Shirts Society and the CC Clique within the Chinese Nationalist Party...
   
   .
7. To promote tourism and the preservation of historical relics
8. To increase support for overseas Chinese education, including the publication of newspapers and the promotion of cultural activities abroad.
9. To maintain close ties with foreign institutions and intellectuals, particularly those whose research focuses on China.
10. To revise tax statutes and regulations in order to encourage wealthy individuals, private industries, and businesses to make donations to government-endorsed cultural and educational establishments.

Chinese culture overlap Taiwanese culture

According to Tsiang Yien-si, the purpose of the renaissance movement was to affirm and restore traditional values in Chinese culture to help enrich the spiritual life in a society that was becoming increasingly materialistic. He said that there was never an attempt to unify Taiwanese culture and Chinese culture.

See also

• History of the Kuomintang cultural policy
  History of the Kuomintang cultural policy
  During the early postwar period the Kuomintang suppressed localism and barred Taiwanese from cosmopolitan life except in the spheres of science and technology...
  
  
• May Fourth Movement
  May Fourth Movement
  The May Fourth Movement was an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing on May 4, 1919, protesting the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles, especially the Shandong Problem...