According to the view of the relationship between the body and the state since the late Qing dynasty,the"New Life Movement"initiated by Chiang kai-shek in Nanchang in February 1934 was just a more radical way of succee-ding the former body modification project since the onset of modem history in addition to a strategic event to coping with the situation.In terms of the series of newly promulgated regulations,although Chiang kai-shek pretended to restore the tradi-tion virtues of"etiquette and righteousness",he was not simply resorting to the ancient way;instead,he intended to shape the body that conforms to"modem civilization".However,due to his misunderstanding of"modem civilization",and with the proactive intervention of state power and the application of physical political technocracy,the new life movement could only create the docile bodies serving the Chiang kai-shek regime,and not the ideal body with independent,autonomous and progressive characteristics in the imagination of modem intellectuals.
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