But before I introduce you to the impact of Chairman Mao, I will begin with how the two parties came into power. At the end of the Qing dynasty, the government was very weak and could not protect itself against outside invasions. So “by the end of the nineteenth century its self-belief had been shattered. Since the 1840s a number of Western nations, principally Britain, Germany, France and the USA, had forced the Chinese to enter into a series of `unequal treaties ' which obliged them to surrender sovereign territory and accept trade on Western terms.”(Mao Zedong: liberator or oppressor of China?) As a response to this social inequality and racial suppression, the GMD took control and encouraged Chinese youths to possess
But before I introduce you to the impact of Chairman Mao, I will begin with how the two parties came into power. At the end of the Qing dynasty, the government was very weak and could not protect itself against outside invasions. So “by the end of the nineteenth century its self-belief had been shattered. Since the 1840s a number of Western nations, principally Britain, Germany, France and the USA, had forced the Chinese to enter into a series of `unequal treaties ' which obliged them to surrender sovereign territory and accept trade on Western terms.”(Mao Zedong: liberator or oppressor of China?) As a response to this social inequality and racial suppression, the GMD took control and encouraged Chinese youths to possess