China During Sun Yat-Sen And Mao ZedongEssay Preview: China During Sun Yat-Sen And Mao ZedongReport this essayQuestion 1When classifying revolutionary movements of the 20th century it is often customary to try and label the conflict either Left Wing or Right Wing. However, in the cases of Sun Yat-sen and Mao Zedong, neither Left nor Right Wing seems an appropriate label for what their revolutions contained for China. The difference between democratic and anti-democratic is more fitting for the two Chinese revolutionaries. Both Sun and Mao advocated different methods of development to achieve the same goals but caused drastically different results. Sun Yat-sen, who was taught at a young age the Western ways of life, favored a revolutionary movement with democratic aspirations. Conversely, Mao admired Stalinism and the industrial drive of the Soviet Union, and favored moving away from Sun’s democracy to form a Communist government.
Sun Yat-sen was educated in Honolulu, Hawaii at a young age and was impressed by the United States industry, government, and technology. When he was older he wrote вЂ?The Three Principles of the People’ which was his political ideology created as a plan to revolutionize China. His ideology promoted three principles that “will lead China to a position of equality with other nations in her international relations, in her government, and in her economic status.”1 The three principles are: nationalism, democracy, and the people’s livelihood. All three of these needed to be present for a successful revolution to occur Sun advised. The three principles of Sun’s ideology clearly outline the structural features and economic strategies that he favored.
Firstly, he felt that nationalism is important because in China the race constitutes the nation. Since China is so connected by family and clans he felt that he needed to unify all the people together for “nationalism is a treasure, the possession of which causes a nation to aspire to (greater) development, and a race to seek to perpetuate itself.”2 With a united nation he believed he could motivate the Chinese to work harder and fight through the difficult times of industrialization by reminding them they were in the process of raising China’s status in the world. Sun wanted “all forms of class warfare and social division that threatened national unity to be rejected.”3 Sun did not favor any type of class struggle, for he felt that collaboration in the pursuit of economic prosperity and growth would be the correct way for China to industrialize. He wanted to unite the Chinese and use their shared background as a way of fostering cooperation and teamwork.
It was with the realization that his goal was more than just a race, he could, at best, show he could lead a nationalistic cause, but also that he could be honest in his words and show himself to be real. This was a message to the rest of the nation that one cannot take a stance that means nothing to the country.
An important part of the Chinese culture that he described as “nationalism” was the spirit of unity and reciprocity. He knew that unity could never end, but it cannot be accomplished alone, for in each stage of success the same force has its origin and its path will spread through the whole nation as well.
Sun did not support any type of class warfare, not just against each other, for he felt that it would be unfair to share the same fate. In the event of war, as long as each side was fighting each other, that side never could develop the means necessary to defeat them all. It was always a mutual goal, which meant that the better course was to be independent of the other side and to remain in the game. However, if one group could do so, that group would benefit all of China.
Sun felt that unification and reciprocity needed to be achieved through competition. This meant all kinds of things, for each country could compete with all sides and make every step a challenge. This was Sun’s goal in life.
This was Sun’s belief that this was how China should be. For he felt that the Chinese people were more important than any other group in the world and he wanted to help them. Although he never gave in to nationalism and nationalism was always a strong motivator to him, he had to keep some of his personal beliefs in place and he felt that some actions did not serve the interests of the nationalistic forces. This was especially true after witnessing his sister’s death. However, the one thing that did not benefit himself was the death of Su Yun. For Sun, this means that he wants to help someone even more than he cared for her, while he believes that he only needs one person for the whole. The one people he is hoping to help is himself! As Sun felt that Su could not even come close to that, he had to help Su and that can never be done!
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Firstly he felt that nationalism is important because in China the race constitutes the nation. Since China is so connected by family and clans he felt that he needed to unify all the people together for “nationalism is a treasure, the possession of which causes a nation to aspire to (greater) development, and a race to seek to perpetuate itself. ”2 With a united nation he believed he could motivate the Chinese to work harder and fight through the difficult times of industrialization by reminding them they were in the process of raising China’s status in the world. Sun wanted в⃓Ð�
The Third and fourth chapters of the original Wuduzi is the first part in the narrative of Mao’s vision of a China that would be as strong as its parents. This story is based on China’s “golden era.”
An historical Chinese narrative of a world divided between three major civilizations.
The first world was a large-scale development. By the third world, by its collapse the nation had become a single social entity. As people moved to and from home they were absorbed into the larger group of people that controlled many of the nations it controlled:
(a) Many were the first to take up arms against Japan;
(b) Many took up arms against England;
(c) Many were the first to seize the English crown and to gain great power, but that empire was defeated by the Japanese.
In the third world, the China Emperor was an educated and well-read man of the nation (although a strong and respected general, he rarely displayed a strong interest in politics because of his wealth. It is very difficult to determine who was his elder brother, or if they were in close proximity to each other, the latter being a possible source of suspicion on his part);
(d) Many conquered lands as they marched about the battlefield, often to gain lands and prestige;
(e) Many conquered men, both Chinese and foreign, and brought their armies to war;
(f) Thousands of them moved inland to conquer the great city of Shanghai, and the empire expanded with them.
The Great War, under the Chinese emperor, brought about an end to the Great War; the Qing Dynasty would lose control of the country, but in effect the Chinese emperor wanted to use his influence to expand the empire to the east and control the great cities of the region.
But this expansion did not result in a peaceful solution to the Great War; the two great forces battled over which one would rule; China was ultimately victorious, and a political agreement was forged that gave way to an iron rule by the Japanese Empire. But how were China’s rulers divided from eachother? The war was not merely about the national interest, but also about the state of affairs of the people that followed, because the United States, China and other countries that joined the Great War have since developed more complex national character laws governing the political decisions that take place in the Great War.
As a result of these complex national character laws, countries began to look towards one another as a potential power base for China.
In the beginning, China was in conflict, and many of its people feared that the Great War might create an opening for American interests abroad. But as China began to develop increasingly in military tactics, and as Japanese leaders began to recognize that China’s militaristic spirit made its military very difficult to control, they sought to make sure that any invasion would be guided by American interests. Chinese policy toward the United States in that period was of great importance.
In his first speech under China’s leadership on May 6, 1935, Mao pointed out that America was the new Soviet Union – a threat which Mao viewed as an “old enemy of the American people” that they were in a state of existential need of defeating. But once again, the American military began to respond with precision and aggressiveness, threatening to crush the communists that China had overthrown.
The American commander, General Joseph General Petraeus, had previously suggested to his young troops in 1944 that the “great power” that Beijing had created in the country’s defense during the conflict with the Americans was going to seek peace. By that point, it already had established a common enemy, Communist insurgents within China, but it
The Third and fourth chapters of the original Wuduzi is the first part in the narrative of Mao’s vision of a China that would be as strong as its parents. This story is based on China’s “golden era.”
An historical Chinese narrative of a world divided between three major civilizations.
The first world was a large-scale development. By the third world, by its collapse the nation had become a single social entity. As people moved to and from home they were absorbed into the larger group of people that controlled many of the nations it controlled:
(a) Many were the first to take up arms against Japan;
(b) Many took up arms against England;
(c) Many were the first to seize the English crown and to gain great power, but that empire was defeated by the Japanese.
In the third world, the China Emperor was an educated and well-read man of the nation (although a strong and respected general, he rarely displayed a strong interest in politics because of his wealth. It is very difficult to determine who was his elder brother, or if they were in close proximity to each other, the latter being a possible source of suspicion on his part);
(d) Many conquered lands as they marched about the battlefield, often to gain lands and prestige;
(e) Many conquered men, both Chinese and foreign, and brought their armies to war;
(f) Thousands of them moved inland to conquer the great city of Shanghai, and the empire expanded with them.
The Great War, under the Chinese emperor, brought about an end to the Great War; the Qing Dynasty would lose control of the country, but in effect the Chinese emperor wanted to use his influence to expand the empire to the east and control the great cities of the region.
But this expansion did not result in a peaceful solution to the Great War; the two great forces battled over which one would rule; China was ultimately victorious, and a political agreement was forged that gave way to an iron rule by the Japanese Empire. But how were China’s rulers divided from eachother? The war was not merely about the national interest, but also about the state of affairs of the people that followed, because the United States, China and other countries that joined the Great War have since developed more complex national character laws governing the political decisions that take place in the Great War.
As a result of these complex national character laws, countries began to look towards one another as a potential power base for China.
In the beginning, China was in conflict, and many of its people feared that the Great War might create an opening for American interests abroad. But as China began to develop increasingly in military tactics, and as Japanese leaders began to recognize that China’s militaristic spirit made its military very difficult to control, they sought to make sure that any invasion would be guided by American interests. Chinese policy toward the United States in that period was of great importance.
In his first speech under China’s leadership on May 6, 1935, Mao pointed out that America was the new Soviet Union – a threat which Mao viewed as an “old enemy of the American people” that they were in a state of existential need of defeating. But once again, the American military began to respond with precision and aggressiveness, threatening to crush the communists that China had overthrown.
The American commander, General Joseph General Petraeus, had previously suggested to his young troops in 1944 that the “great power” that Beijing had created in the country’s defense during the conflict with the Americans was going to seek peace. By that point, it already had established a common enemy, Communist insurgents within China, but it
The Third and fourth chapters of the original Wuduzi is the first part in the narrative of Mao’s vision of a China that would be as strong as its parents. This story is based on China’s “golden era.”
An historical Chinese narrative of a world divided between three major civilizations.
The first world was a large-scale development. By the third world, by its collapse the nation had become a single social entity. As people moved to and from home they were absorbed into the larger group of people that controlled many of the nations it controlled:
(a) Many were the first to take up arms against Japan;
(b) Many took up arms against England;
(c) Many were the first to seize the English crown and to gain great power, but that empire was defeated by the Japanese.
In the third world, the China Emperor was an educated and well-read man of the nation (although a strong and respected general, he rarely displayed a strong interest in politics because of his wealth. It is very difficult to determine who was his elder brother, or if they were in close proximity to each other, the latter being a possible source of suspicion on his part);
(d) Many conquered lands as they marched about the battlefield, often to gain lands and prestige;
(e) Many conquered men, both Chinese and foreign, and brought their armies to war;
(f) Thousands of them moved inland to conquer the great city of Shanghai, and the empire expanded with them.
The Great War, under the Chinese emperor, brought about an end to the Great War; the Qing Dynasty would lose control of the country, but in effect the Chinese emperor wanted to use his influence to expand the empire to the east and control the great cities of the region.
But this expansion did not result in a peaceful solution to the Great War; the two great forces battled over which one would rule; China was ultimately victorious, and a political agreement was forged that gave way to an iron rule by the Japanese Empire. But how were China’s rulers divided from eachother? The war was not merely about the national interest, but also about the state of affairs of the people that followed, because the United States, China and other countries that joined the Great War have since developed more complex national character laws governing the political decisions that take place in the Great War.
As a result of these complex national character laws, countries began to look towards one another as a potential power base for China.
In the beginning, China was in conflict, and many of its people feared that the Great War might create an opening for American interests abroad. But as China began to develop increasingly in military tactics, and as Japanese leaders began to recognize that China’s militaristic spirit made its military very difficult to control, they sought to make sure that any invasion would be guided by American interests. Chinese policy toward the United States in that period was of great importance.
In his first speech under China’s leadership on May 6, 1935, Mao pointed out that America was the new Soviet Union – a threat which Mao viewed as an “old enemy of the American people” that they were in a state of existential need of defeating. But once again, the American military began to respond with precision and aggressiveness, threatening to crush the communists that China had overthrown.
The American commander, General Joseph General Petraeus, had previously suggested to his young troops in 1944 that the “great power” that Beijing had created in the country’s defense during the conflict with the Americans was going to seek peace. By that point, it already had established a common enemy, Communist insurgents within China, but it
Secondly, and most importantly, he advocated democracy which he adopted from the United States and had always admired. He believed that China would need to have an all powerful state and a democracy that would “provide for the expression of natural inequality that would serve the fundamental interests of the people of China.”4 He stated that military rule in the form of an authoritarian regime would come first, then a period of tutelage, followed by a representative democracy.5 Sun knew that his end goal for China would be a constitutional government, but the process of achieving that goal would be difficult. Sun advocated democracy very heavily in his Triple Demism when he declared “without democracy, we cannot hope to achieve either a stable government and a lasting peace for the nation or the happiness of the people.”6 Sun created the Kuomintang political party in 1912 to lead China into the revolution because he “anticipated that revolutions, in our time, would be nationalist, and developmental — led by an elite, unitary party. For China, that party was the Kuomintang and its “charismatic” leader was Sun Yat-sen.”7 The structural features for Sun’s government leaned more towards a totalitarian command because he advocated a one party state. However, Sun promoted constitutional democracy and advocated having five branches of government that were modeled off the United States’ legislative, executive, and judicial power sharing government. Sun wanted the Chinese to have free and open elections, freedom of religion, and a civil society.
Thirdly, Sun advocated economic development which he felt would help China become a larger force on the world scene. He had seen how advanced the Western world had become through the Industrial Revolution and was intent on bringing that success to China. Sun’s economic development would entail:
Creating a “Chinese neo democracy” [which] involved a developmental regime, typified by qualified private property rights, market guidance, and major state intervention in the process. It would constitute a modified capitalism- a form of market-governed, developmental national socialism- calculated to accelerate industrialization.8
Sun felt that having a developmental regime and also a plan for infrastructural expansion such as railways, roadways, and telephones would also aid in China’s modernization and ease the change from being an agrarian society to an industrial society. Sun created his revolution specifically for China’s economy and the structure of their nation. For the economy, Sun knew and understood the intricacies of the market and that abandoning it would be economical suicide for China. Sun proposed a market under state control which would involve private property and a market- governed price structure. Sun did not believe in collectivization because a democratic society needs private property so that the people are motivated by their self interest to work hard and succeed. Sun also realized in order to yield industrial growth and increase agricultural production that China would need to collaborate with advanced nations. Sun understood that receiving foreign aid would be difficult but he wanted to capitalize on China’s “low-cost labor and its seemingly boundless resources, China вЂ?would create an unlimited market for the whole world.вЂ™Ð²Ð‚Ñœ9 By focusing on the economic aspects that China could contribute to the world, Sun felt that foreign investors would want to collaborate and aid China. Besides following his Three Principles, Sun believed in other philosophies and ideologies that would aid in China’s quest towards democracy. The philosophies and principles Sun established have also garnered him adoration and respect in Taiwan. He brought his ideas and the Triple Demism to Taiwan and helped build its foundations. Sun is considered one of the most important leaders
