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Ep. 302 | Chinese Anarchists of the Late Qing

The China History Podcast

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What Is Anarchism?

Anarchism in china came right after the boxer rebellion. That's when anarchist writings began showing up on the radar of intellectual circles. For a dozen or more years, translators were kept busy bringing all the latest po theories and ideas from all the great anarchist thinkers in the west to china. The word for anarchy in chinese is wo chung fu chu e. That means the idea or ism of wo chungfu, no government. That's the inner essence of anarchism.

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