"Can Mahatma Gandhi Save China?": A Glimpse of the Discourse on Gandhi in China's Eastern Miscellany.

The rise of Mahatma Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Movement and his methods of nonviolent resistance attracted significant attention among Chinese intellectuals in the early twentieth century. Eastern Miscellany played a leading role in introducing and debating Gandhi's ideas in China, particularly their applicability to Chinese conditions. Drawing on the magazine's archives, this article shows that Gandhi's life, personality, and satyagraha were closely examined as potential strategies for overcoming semi-colonialism and warlordism. Chinese intellectuals actively debated whether Gandhian methods could serve China's liberation struggles. Although many thinkers increasingly interpreted Gandhi and the Indian movement through a Marxist-Leninist framework, influenced by the Communist International, by the 1930s, intellectual interest in Gandhi and his nonviolent philosophy continued in China until the mid-twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]