Fascism, Anti-Rationalism and Political Thought in 1930's China

This study analyzes the emergence and content of fascism in China. Besides presenting an in depth discussion of the fascist ideology, this paper as well comments on research deleopments in this field. These are the key factors in avoiding a superficial or misguided discussion, reducing the research of fascism to questions of political organization. Hence the focus of the dicussion is placed upon the analysis of intellectual, as well as philosophical trends, relying on key elements of fascist thought to provide a point of reference for the analys of Chinese fascism. The goal of this thesis is not to present a distinctive form of “Chinese Fascism“, but rather to understand fascism in China in terms of a global phenomenon.