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    “The people and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.” This quote by Mao is key to understanding Chinese Communist Party (CCP) thought, especially during the Chinese Civil War and the war of liberation from the Japanese. These events were key to the CCP’s eventual victory over the nationalists. They were key not only in terms of military victories, but in persuading the Chinese people that the CCP cared for them far more than the “authoritarian” nationalist. And that a nationalist China would lead to the return of imperialism and misery for a majority of peasants. They were able to show that they were in tune with the people’s thought through an opposition to Japanese imperialism, its ability to organize people…

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    The American Civil War took place between the Union and the Confederate and the Chinese Civil War of 1946-1949 took place between Kuomintang and the Communist Party. Both played important roles in countries’ history, the American Civil War and the Chinese Civil War of 1946-1949 have some similarity such as the effects and consequences of the war, but the purpose of the war and the treatment toward citizens during the war time are different. In fact, both the American Civil War and the Chinese…

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    in the final outcome of the Chinese civil war Foreign countries were interested in China for all the benefits they could get from their lands, these countries were USA and URSS USA supported GMD allowing them made key advantages. USA supported them with 3 billion in large supplies of arms throughout world war 2 and aids, also, USA transported some GMD forces by sea and air to the north of china and the US troops took control of Tianjin and Beijing to control them until the GMD could control them…

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    Q7. The Nationalists and Communists faced an arduous ongoing Civil War in China, the only brief pause they took was to fight the Japanese who had come to take over China. Soon thereafter, the Communists and Nationalists went back to their ways during the Civil War. The leader of the Communist party was Mao Zedong, together they controlled a massive area in northwestern China, mainly the north. The Communists mobilized peasants for guerilla war against the Japanese in the northeast. Due to the…

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    Topic 6: An Analysis of the Peasant Nationalism, Maoist Marxism, and the Second United Front in the Communist Victory of the Chinese Civil War This historical study will define the themes of peasant nationalism, Maoist Marxism, and the Second United Front in the communist victory in the Chinese Civil War. The civil war between the Kuomintang (KMT) of the Republic of China and the Communist Party of China (CPC) from 1927 to 1950 involved lengthy battle between capitalist and communist forces.…

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    During the Chinese Cold War and Chinese Revolution, multiple leaders had contradicting opinions of how to rule the country. Revolutionary leader, Mao Zedong, once said,” The ultimate perspective of the Chinese Revolution is not capitalism but socialism and communism” (N.pag.).Throughout his education, Mao Zedong believed that communism could help China grow stronger, and he also saw the importance of all people during revolutions (Zedong N.pag.). Mao wanted the Chinese Government to become…

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    story to focus on the shift of women’s gender identity during the modern era of Chinese civil war. As Barlow points out, Manzhen in “Mother” makes the change from an individual female character to an asexual political entity when she forms a sisterhood with her friends at the normal college. (Barlow, p.15) The protagonist known only as old woman or Granny in “New Faith” also becomes a political force identified with the Communist Party that Ding Ling associates with a better future for women,…

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    Taiwan China Relations

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    operation: to unite the KMT and CCP under one government, ruled by KMT. Long story short, the plan failed, the civil war between the two persisted, and the CCP eventually got the upper hand. The Marshall Mission was understood to be a huge loss for the United States, because it had essentially lost China to communism, what America would consider, “the ‘fall’ of mainland China to communism.” (Milestones:1945-1952) Following the success of the Chinese Communist Party, Chiang-Kai Shek’s Kuomintang…

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    Modernism In China

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    China has roughly five thousand years of history, but this paper will begin in 1840, when the Opium War of 1840— an Anglo-Chinese war fought between the United Kingdom and the Qing in China over conflicting viewpoint of diplomatic relations and trade—took place. The Opium war led to a great weakening of the Chinese people and the start of the Self-Strengthening Movement (SSM) that lasted from 1861 to 1895. The movement yearned to strengthen the nation by preserving traditional Confucian values…

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    How Chinese Culture is Shaped by Mao Zedong and the Great Leap Forward Through the passage of time, China, one of the four earliest civilizations on earth, has been through many different changes in its 5000 years of recorded history. China started out as numerous nomadic tribes who merged to become the seven small kingdoms that battled each other for the control of China, then Qin Shi Huang united China and imposed a uniform currency, scale and language. 19 dynasties followed Qin, each met…

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