China's Road

sku: 9789811169618
Publication Date: 01/04/2018
Publisher: South Ocean Publishing House

China, a great nation, is the only one of the ancient civilizations where the cultural tradition has never been interrupted. Both the material and spiritual civilizations in ancient China were often joyed a great variety and a splendid glory, making a very important contribution to human development.

Over the course of its history, the Chinese nation has suffered many internal problems and conflicts as well as external challenges and threats, such as natural disasters, social turbulence, national division and external invasion. However, the Chinese nation triumphed over all disasters and pulled through each time, thus managing to consolidate its unified multi-ethnic identity as a country.

The Chinese nation confronted one severe test after another where survival or extinction were equally possible outcomes. Since the Opium War in 1840, many Chinese people have undergone great hardship, as they looked for a developmental path that was suitable for China. Of these developmental paths, two have had the greatest influence on the Chinese people. One is the Democratic Revolution created by the Communist Party of China (CPC), and the other is the socialist road initiated by the CPC. Through objective historical statements and historical pictures, this book hopes to explain to readers why it is the choice of the Chinese people to adhere to socialism with Chinese characteristic.

Chinese modern history started with the Opium War in 1840. At that time, China had already fallen behind the major capitalist countries in the West, and was facing into years of decline.

From the 16th century to the 19th century, when China was still immersed in a feudal society, capitalism had quickly developed in the West, and major capitalist countries had begun to engage in large-scale colonist expansion to other parts of the world.

From 1840 to 1949 China was a semi-colonial semi-feudal country. The principal contradictions in modern Chinese society were the contradiction between imperialism and the Chinese nation, and the contradiction between feudalism and the general public. Striving for national independence and the liberation of the people and realizing national prosperity and the happiness of the people became the historical task of the Chinese nation in modern times. To achieve these objectives, different classes in China struggled tirelessly to drive forward the advance of China, but they failed once and again.

After its foundation in 1921, the CPC accepted the important mission conferred by history and the Chinese people. Shouldering the responsibility for rejuvenating the nation, the CPC united and led the people of all ethnic groups nationwide to overcome the various difficulties and obstacles, and attained a great victory in the New Democratic Revolution. The People’s Public of China (PRC) was founded in 1949.