| | Chinese Classes at Florida State University |
 | | The second agenda, sustained by the belief that revitalizing the Chinese nation depended on releasing the power of each societal member from China’s stifling feudal tradition, advocated the individual pursuit of liberty, equality and personal happiness. |
 | | The mission of national salvation, which was primarily empowered by the Confucian ideology of an authoritarian state, entailed reducing the individual to the tool of redeeming the Chinese nationhood and compromising individual values in the name of communal and national interests. |
 | | Since the early decades of the twentieth century, the tension between the two forces has defined the relationship between the state authority of modern China (either Nationalist or Communist) and its largely liberal intelligentsia, and informed the situation in which the violation/promotion of human rights has been conducted. |
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