The Roots Of Communist China
Beginning of paper
To say that the Chinese Communist revolution is a non-Western revolution is more
than a clich‚. That revolution has been primarily directed, not like the French Revolution
but against alien Western influences that approached the level of domination and
drastically altered China's traditional r ....
Middle of paper
.... due mainly to the general acceptance of a common, although
difficult, written language and a common set of ethical and social values, known as
Confucianism. Traditional china had neither the knowledge nor the power 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
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