TEACHER’S NOTE: Students should be given the opportunity to hypothesize about why democratic reforms failed in China and why Marxism was adopted. Like Russia, China was not an industrialized nation.
How did China alter Marxist theory?
To what extent are the stages of the Communist Revolution in China similar to those of other revolutions?
What roles did such individuals as Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) and Mao Zedong play in the Communist Revolution in China?
How successful was Mao in meeting the needs of the Chinese?
What were the successes of the Chinese Revolution under Mao?
How might a Chinese perspective of “liberation” differ from that of a Westerner?
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Ching Chun Wang: A Plea for the Recognition of the Chinese Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1913
Sun Yat Sen: Fundamentals of National Reconstruction, 1923
Mao Zedong (1893-1976): Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan, March 1927
Mao Zedong, Chang Kai-Shek is Provoking Civil War, August 1945
Mao Zedong (1893-1976): In Commemoration of the 28th Anniversary of the Communist Party of China, June 30, 1949, excerpts
Mao Zedong (1893-1976): Quotations of Chairman Mao
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Lu Ting-yi: Let Flowers of Many Kinds Blossom, Diverse Schools of Thought Contend!, 1956
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Dean Acheson: United States Position on China, August 1949 An acute critique of Nationalist/Kuomintang failures.
John K. Fairbank: China: Time for a Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, April 1957 Evaluation of US policy options toward newly Communist mainland China.
James C. Thomson Jr.: Dragon Under Glass: Time for a New China Policy, The Atlantic Monthly, October 1967 Argued that the time had come for the United States to reconcile itself with Communist China.