POL SCI 143A Study Guide - Final Guide: Renminbi, Maoism, Deng Xiaoping
5 Dec 2017
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Very dynamic! lead to periods of disunity and fragmentation. Uprising in wuhan, spread quickly to surrounding provinces. Empire fell with little violence, no one was willing to defend it! Empress had died w no successor, leadership vacuum. Yuan shikai was supposed to defend the empire, but was disloyal and opportunist. 1912-27: warlord period, united under dictatorship of chiang kai shek. Partly based on western democratic thinking, partly on marxism. 1927-35: ccp had to struggle to survive against chiang kaishek. Social policies eliminate all the landlords and mobilises peasants. Ccp was a bandit group with popular support behind japanese lines to mobilise. Whereas gmd was more formal, had troops nationalism. 1945: war ends, tried to organise truce (under us pressure) Deng xiaoping undermined this by saying: whatever works is right . Kruschev focused on foreign policy as an instrument of international revolution. Links china to central asia and s-e asia. To avoid isolation and danger (unlike n. korea)
