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...created modern China after overthrowing the Qing imperial dynasty in 1911. May-ling married the young Kuomintang (KMT) general Chiang Kai-shek in 1926, a year after he'd taken control of the party and the year before the onset of a bloody civil conflict between the KMT and Mao's communists - a conflict that also marked a parting of ways of the Soong sisters, as Madame Sun Yat-sen made common cause with the communists...
...ensuing three decades, "One China," and the inexorable shift towards opening the Chinese economy to the West following the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, began to change the terms of the relationship between Beijing, Taipei and Washington. Where Chiang had once represented the authoritarian strongman presiding over a booming capitalist economy offering low-cost manufactured goods to the U.S. market and raising the living standards of its people, today that role has been usurped on the mainland by the Chinese Communist Party. The tension across the Taiwan Strait remains high, but its terms have changed. Today, Beijing's claim...
...echoes from the Nanjing Decade won't go away, providing an intriguing template from the past. In each case, the ruling party could draw support from the living memory of the chaos that preceded its rule: the postimperial warlord era for the nationalists, the Cultural Revolution for the post-Mao communists. But the fundamental question of the basis of a regime's legitimacy is as pertinent today as it was in the 1930s...
...Lately he's suffered other self-inflicted wounds. On a trip to China in July, he purportedly told his hosts that he respected Mao Zedong, whose soldiers killed thousands of South Koreans when China entered the Korean War in late 1950. On policy issues he has repeatedly flip-flopped. Foreign businesspeople say they have no clue what he wants to do about labor-union strife, which has badly damaged the South's economy. He went to the U.S. earlier this year to pledge support for Washington's hard-line stance on North Korea, then backpedaled furiously on his return...
...some of my schoolmates and I, disgusted with the shadow of totalitarianism, organized a student movement on campus. It was the first of its kind since the Communist Party took over power in 1949. Through public forums on campus and brochures, we openly criticized the former Communist autocrat Mao Ze Dong and China’s one-party system and appealed for democratic reforms. We drafted a proposal asking the government to grant freedom of the press that gained more than 600 signatures both on and off campus and was submitted to China’s highest legislative body...