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To say that the Chinese Communist revolution is a non-Western
revolution is more than a clich. That revolution has been primarily
directed, not like the French Revolution but against alien Western
influences that approached the level of domination and drastically
altered China's traditional relationship with the world. Hence the
Chinese Communist attitude toward China's traditional past is
selectively cr ....
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.... was rendered still
keener by a unique phenomenon, the modernization of Japan and its rise
to great power status. Japan's success threw China's failure into
sharp remission.
The Japanese performance contributed to the discrediting and
collapse of China's imperial system, but it did little to make things
easier for the subsequent successor. The Republic was never able to
achieve territorial and national unity in the face o ....
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