CHRONICLE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA

CHRONICLE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CHINA

作(编)者:The Institute of Party Literature of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

出版社:Central Compilation & Translation Press

出版时间:2021-08

After 1840, due to the invasion of China by Western powers and the corruption of Chinese feudal rule, China was gradually reduced to a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. Achieving national rejuvenation became the greatest dream of the Chinese nation; striving for national independence and people’s liberation and achieving national prosperity and people’s happiness became the historical task of the Chinese people. Many patriotic pioneers who devoted themselves to the cause of national progress fought and explored unremittingly. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the Westernization Movement, the Reform Movement of 1898, and the Yihetuan Movement all failed. In October 1911, Sun Yat-sen led the Revolution of 1911, which overthrew the Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China, ending the autocratic monarchy that had ruled China for more than2,000 years and creating a modern national democratic revolution in the full sense of the word. However, it still did not change the semicolonial and semi-feudal nature of the old China, failed to change the miserable fate of the Chinese people, and did not complete the historical task of achieving national independence and people’s liberation. China looked to new social forces to open up new paths to save the country and the people. The New Culture Movement, which broke out in 1915, set off a trend of intellectual liberation in Chinese society. The October Revolution in Russia in 1917 gave great encouragement to the oppressed peoples in the East. A group of progressives in China began to embrace Marxism. In addition, the Chinese working class grew rapidly along with the development of the national capitalist economy. This made the rise of a new great people’s revolution inevitable.