ABSTRACT
Chen Renbing recounted one of the most unforgettable experiences of his life, a reception Mao Zedong gave at the Imperial Palace. Intellectuals may have been willing to consider that in republican China, Dr. Hu Shi, Columbia University graduate and spokesperson for John Dewey, was wrong to tell students to dissociate themselves with Anti-Japanese protests and resume classes towards acquiring conservative and mature outlooks. As world and domestic issues prevailed, reform movements to "improve conditions" within China gave way to ideological issues. Chen Renbing spent time and energy garnering financial and political support in Nanjing as a China Democratic League liaison man in anticipation of the Communist victory. Chen Renbing's generation "turned inward on its own cultural tradition and outward toward the modern West" in search of China's position in the modern world when revolutionary changes touched aspects of the nation's political, economic and social structures.
