The struggle to lead China has caused the country to undergo mass socio-economic changes on more than one occasion, from the fall of imperialism in 1911 to the rise of the Nationalists and Communists. ... Sun Yatsen, who advocated nationalism, socialism and democracy and believed that the country ought to be governed by the Chinese people, not foreigners (Gay, K. 2008). Throughout his school life, Mao and his peers read radical newspapers, studied world history and, according to Jonathan Spence, Chinese history specialist and former Professor of History at Yale University, Mao would read "what...

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It was also an event for which no definite argument had been published, so it was optimal for this task. ... It is also one of the major turning points of Mao's character, which, in the eyes of those who would vilify him, he begins to reveal himself as a monster. ... The subject is also advantageous as at several points the Sino-Soviet histories overlap. ... Events casting the Cultural Revolution in a negative light include the influence of the Chinese Communist Party, the rise of Occidentalism, availability of new evidence and the death of Lin Biao. ... Foreseeing the rise of revis...

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