Total Westernization (Chinese: 全盘西化; pinyin: quánpán xīhuà) is a trend of intellectuals in Greater China, first proposed in 1915.
[1] Chen Xujing, Hu Shih, and others believed that the invasion of the late Qing dynasty by Western great power was due to the backwardness of Chinese monarchical culture.
They should go beyond the three Open Door Policy, maintain an independent perspective, and find the ability of the Chinese nation to create culture.
There were views that regarded total westernization as a bourgeois liberalization proposition and proposed that China should follow the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics formulated by Deng Xiaoping.
Western sexologists were translated into Chinese during that period, including Hirschfeld, Ellis, Bloch, Krafft-Ebing, Freud, and Carpenter.