The Roots Of Communist China

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that would have
been necessary to cope with the superior science, technology, economic organization, and
military force that expanding West brought to bear on it. The general sense of national
weakness and humiliation was rendered still keener by a unique phenomenon, the
modernization of Japan and its rise to great power status. Japan's success threw China's
failure into sharp remission.
The Japanese performance contributed to the discrediting and collapse of China's
imperial system, but it did little to make things easier for the subsequent successor. The
Republic was never able to achieve territorial and national unity in the face of bad
communications and the widespread diffusion of modern arms throughout the country.
Lacking internal authority, it did not carry much weight in its foreign relations. As it
struggled awkwardly, there arose two more radical political forces, the relatively powerful
Kuomintang of Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek, and the younger and ...

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domestic performance in the political and economic fields, which if anything to get worse.
Clearly the pre-Communist history of Modern China has been essentially one of weakness,
humiliation, and failure. This is the atmosphere in which the CPC developed its leadership
and growth in. The result has been a strong determination on the part of that leadership to
eliminate foreign influence within China, to modernize their country, and to eliminate
Western influence from eastern Asia, which included the Soviet Union. China was
changing and even developing, but its overwhelming marks were still poverty and
weakness. During their rise to power the Chinese Communists, like most ...

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