Mainland Failure, Island Success: Comparing KMT Economic and Political Policies in China and Taiwan Introduction One does not need to search very thoroughly to find mountains of work on the rise of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the revolution of 1949 or "miracle- economic growth on Taiwan after the Kuomintang (KMT or "Nationalists-) took power following its retreat from the mainland. ... So let us start with those authors who looked at the missteps that helped explain the CCP's rise to power. ... In the countryside especially, Esherick notes that as early as 1971 Ma...

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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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