New Life Movement

…launched a campaign, the so-called New Life Movement, to inculcate Confucian morals.

…she launched in 1934 the New Life Movement, a program that sought to halt the spread of communism by teaching traditional Chinese values. In 1936 Chiang Kai-shek was taken captive by Zhang Xueliang, a warlord who believed the Nationalist government should stop fighting China’s communists and instead concentrate on resisting…