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The Establishment Of A New Democratic China

Posted on:2017-02-12Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:W D ZhouFull Text:PDF
GTID:1106330488454992Subject:Chinese Communist Party
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Where would China go? This was a basic problem that modern China was faced with, which hadn’t been effectively solved by modern Chinese from Hong Xiuquan to Sun Yat-sen. Till 1939-1949, when Chinese Communists represented by Mao Zedong put forward the new-democratic republic outline and founded the PRC, the problem was solved successfully. The stage from 1939 to 1949 is a process of the new-democratic nation-founding thought’s from being put forward to basically coming true. To study Mao Zedong’s nation-founding thought(1939-1949) is conductive to seeking where the PRC came from and where it will go, as well as to giving advice for national reform and development.Under the guidance of historical materialism, this dissertation studies the historical background, basic content and main influence of Mao Zedong’s nation-founding thought in the stage from 1939 to 1949 by using literature research method, comparative analysis method and so on. Looking vertically, Mao Zedong’s nation-founding thought(1939-1949) includes three stages: the new-democratic republic outline(1939-1944), the coalition government proposition(1944-1947) and the PRC conception(1947-1949). Looking horizontally, Mao Zedong’s nation-founding thought(1939-1949) solved three essential issues: what to found, who would found and how to found. Around these issues, this article focuses on the development history, the main content and the essential features of each stage. Content study mainly deals with state system, economical and cultural policies, leaders and supporters, nation-founding ways and means, etc.The basic viewpoints of this dissertation are as follows:Mao Zedong had been thinking about the problem of nation-founding for a long time before 1939, which laid a good foundation for prososing the new-democratic republic outline. The patriotic thought in his teenage was the origin of his nation-founding thought. From 1911 to 1920, his basic idea was to found a bourgeois republic. From 1920 to 1935, he advocated worker-peasant democratic dictatorship for the most part. From 1935 to 1939, in order to unite to resist Japan, Mao changed his nation-founding idea and put forward the slogan “people’s republic” and then “democratic republic”.At the end of 1939 and the beginning of 1940, where China would go became a serious problem once more. Mao Zedong put forward the new-democratic republic outline systematically, which was a complete nation-founding outline including nation-founding target, nation-founding supporters and nation-founding ways. For a national regime, it was a long-term planning; for local anti-Japanese democratic regimes, it was a general program and a concrete program. The outline was innovative, predictive and practical. It had an important significance for guiding the CPC’s revolutionary and nation-founding practice. In the mid of 1944, in order to solve the problem of resisting Japan and founding a new nation under the new situation, Mao Zedong put forward a new concrete program: the coalition government proposition, and drove a series of tough negotiations with the KMT. However, there were short of enough historical conditions of founding a coalition government based on Kuomintang-Communist cooperation in a country with deep-seated deposition tradition as well as in the world where capitalist ideology was more and more opponent to socialism. After 1947, Mao Zedong presented up to the times another concrete program: the PRC conception, which developed and broke through the coalition government proposition. In this conception, the nation-founding target was people’s democratic dictatorship; the main nation-founding reliable power was the four classes; the main nation-founding way was to struggle against Chiang Kai-shek and found a new China; a series of political and economic new systems were designed. The conception guided and facilitated the establishment of the PRC.Mao Zedong’s nation-founding thought(1939-1949) has a deep-going realistic enlightment as well as a profound and lasting historical significance. It has developed the nation-founding thought of Marxism-Leninism, rebuilt the nation spirit of China, guided the practice of revolution and nation-founding and laid the system foundation of national development. What’s more, it has multiple revelations for people to insist on developing various forms of ownership, to improve national governance, to seize the characterastics of social development stage, and so on. Of course, the new-democratic nation-founding thought is not perfect. It has some historical limitations, such as not knowing enough well of public ownership as well as capitalism, depending on analytical method of class and class struggle too much, being weak of the awareness of rule of law, and the like.In a word, Mao Zedong’s nation-founding thought(1939-1949) is a complete and systematic nation-founding theory, which scientifically solved the important theoretical and practical problem where modern China would go. It includes one outline and two concrete programs. It’s theme is “to found a new democratic China”. The new democratic China would not have been built up without Mao Zedong’s new democratic nation-founding thought.
Keywords/Search Tags:1939-1949, Mao Zedong, nation-founding thought, new-democratic, coalition government, the PRC
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