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Chinese Cultural Renaissance


The Chinese Cultural Renaissance or the Chinese Cultural Renaissance Movement (Chinese: 中華文化復興運動; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Wénhuà Fùxīng Yùndòng) was a movement promoted in Taiwan in opposition to the cultural destructions caused by the Communist Party of China during the Cultural revolution.

Chiang Kai-shek, the then President of the Republic of China who launched the movement on November 1966 - on the 100th anniversary of Sun Yat-sen's birthday - by publicly announcing the official start of the renaissance movement. It was the Kuomintang's first structured plan for cultural development on Taiwan. Chiang himself was the head of the movement promotion council. Future president Lee Teng-hui was also involved in the movement and served as the president for the cultural renaissance.

Chiang announced ten goals:

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.


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