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1、Page 91landhungry officials so that the society could carry out the timehonored Confucian rituals. One of the leaders of the association, Xu Zixiu, refused appointment as a teacher at Chengdu University in 1926 because, it is said, he would not serve on the same faculty as Wu Yu,
2、 who had publicly denounced his own father fifteen years previously. Wu Yu and Xu Zixiu fought and maligned each other for twentyfive years, each earning a large body of admirers and remaining fully engaged in scholarly and political life.7Chengdu in the 1920s was no pluralistic
3、seedbed for cultural innovation, nor was it perpetually isolated in the immutable grip of tradition and warlord terror. During Qing times, Chengdu had been the capital of one of the richest agricultural provinces in the empire.8 The New Policies administrative reforms of the last
4、 ten years of the imperial era, concentrated as they were in the provincial capitals, had introduced a range of new institutions and ideas about urban planning. As the priorities of those who sought wealth and social prominence shifted from civil administration to the arts of war
5、 in the militarized early years of the Republic, many of these institutions lost their funding and languished. Nevertheless, the ideals of administrative rationalization and social order promoted in the late Qing continued to influence the thinking of older members of Chengdu's e
6、lite.In the 1920s, new visions of urban organization and culture developing in eastern China found supporters among a younger generation of Chengdu elites, who briefly looked to Yang Sen as their champion. While in Chengdu, Yang Sen supported people who thought of themselves as p
7、rogressive reformers, in touch with the currents leading China toward the future. Unfortunately for these ambitious young progressives, Yang Sen's approach to urban reform, unlike that of his lateQing predecessors, took little account of local politics. The history of his attempt
8、 to remake Chengdu demonstrates that, ev
