Mao Zedong's Commentary To The White Paper Book And His Viewpoint On Modern Chinese History

This essay starts with Mao Zedong's commentary to the White Paper book, by means of combing and reviewing the study achievements of senior historian, inspects the main content, the characteristic and the influence to the Modern history research of Mao's viewpoint on Modern Chinese history. Moreover, this essay proposes views on Mao's limited viewpoint on Modern Chinese history.This essay has first induced the main content of Mao's viewpoint on Modern Chinese history, including the basic concept, views on the imperialism aggression and summary to reasons and the fighting rules of China's revolution.On this foundation, the essay holds that,Mao studied Modern Chinese history with close attention to reality politics, his research served for the reality revolution struggle, helped the politics and nurtures the human; His viewpoint on Modern Chinese history took revolution and the class struggle as the master line, and was filled with the historical diagnostic method.Mao's viewpoint on Modern Chinese history had laid the foundation for the establishment of the Marxism Modern Chinese history discipline system, also had the profound influence to this field.Based on the analysis to the nature and basic contradiction of China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, Mao made a conclusion that the modern China's primary mission was to carry on a democratic revolution opposing imperialism and feudalism, include an old democratic revolution and a new democratic revolution. In the new democratic revolution, the first...