Brfore the Chinese Communist Revolution, China was amoung the poorest nations. Ranking in the bottom ten countries in terms of GDP, the average person in China had a salary of around 450 yuan anually. This is a disturbingly low 65 USD per year. Mainly an agricultural country, much of China's citizens were serf's for landlords or the wealthy elite. Agricultural goods such as rice, beans, and other such produce, barely sustained the country's economy. By the turn of the 20th centruy, the poor were becoming more and more impoverished while clique's of corrupt officuals were lining their pockets with wealth. Small uprisings against this opressive "People's Republic of China" have been atempted, only to be beaten down and opressed yet again. In 1924, the Soviet Union set up a base in the heart of Shanghai, gifting these opressed chinese peasents a alternate ideology other than nationalism, namely, communism. More importantly, the Chinese Communist Party(CCP), was established, funded, and supplied by the Soviet Union.
As a result of the People Republic of China being backed by the U.S. Government, China was heavily influenced by western powers. Most officials utilized connections gained from higher positions to secreatly make deals with the U.S. usually in the forms of bribes. These same officials also created clear policies that made it almost impossible for people in lower classes to rise to the upper class, renforcing their power selfishly. Peasents, as a result of this, were left with very little political power, and had no means of deafending themselves from physical, social, verbal, and even s**ual abuse. This systematic corruption almost destroyed China, along with the opression of the peasents by the feudal lords.
The Chinese Communist Revolution is not the first Chinese revolution against this issue, but the first Chinese revolution that suceeded. There have been many other small revolutions and uprisings in the past, however these revoltions were powerless against the Kuomintang(The right wing chinese forces). Policies and social views made it so that those who supported even a hint of Communist vision were ostracized, abused, and sometime even killed. Even peaceful revolusions were brought down brutally, like the non figerative "massacure" that occured in the Shanghai Massacre
Steming from Soviet influence, Communism slowly emerged in China over the cource of decades from the learly 1920's to the late 1940's. What drove so many people to turn to Communism is the promise of a fair equality amoung all citizens. This equality, in comparison to the opressive class system of the People's Republic of China is much more acceptable to the peasents, who have been horribly wronged by these landlords and wealthy officials. Seeing the sucsess of Communism in Soviet Russia, many Chinese citizens turned to become Communist. Radical ideologies and schools of though began to emerge, all surounding the idea Communism. There is a large veriety of reasons that people turned to Communism. Some wanted to reject the current system, while other agreed with the vision of Communist China, either way Communism rapidly gained influence in China.
Born to a propserus merchent family, in 1887, Chiang KaiShek did not exactly have a solid upbringing. He was noted to be "stubborn" and a "mischivious" child. After his father passed when he was 7 years old, he was raised by his mom under financial strain. It was in this enviorment where Shek discovered his intrest in military affairs. China at this point in time was turbulent, unstable, and radical, which greatly influenced the beliefs of Shek. After studing abrod, Shek became inspired by Sparten military ideals which became part of how he handled conflicts. After joining the anti-Qing revolutionary group, Shek rose the ranks and eventully reached the top of the Kuomintng.
Chian KaiShek is the primary leader, responsible for the People's Republic of China. Backed by U.S. support, Chiang KaiShek was untouchable due to financial and personal safety. Even with all this power of China, Shek was still responsibe for many of the problems that plauged China at the time. Narrow minded decisions had caused a great divide between social classes. Much of the abuse and tribulation lower class citizens had to go through were ignored, even though these peasents had despreatly pleaded and avocated for something to be done. As a result of great political instability, China faced one of the highest unemployment rates of the early 19th century.
Mao ZeDong was born to a wealthy farming family in central China. His father had made spent much money and time to thorughly educate Mao, resulting in Mao gaining vast knowledge about history, maths, chinese literature, and other forms of acedemics. Impressivly, this education was initally disproved by his father, but Mao eventully overcame this resistance and gained acsess to a thorough schooling. Reading books on everything from electricity to politics, Mao ZeDong spent much of his time thinking about the state of his country, and why there were so much technology unavalible the people of China. These books also provided him with a exreamily, high level of literacy, allowing him to express himself especially well. Due to much turbulence within the Chinese rulling system, Mao had discovered his talent for politics. Using his extensive comprehension on Chinese litteracy, he wrote his first articles, condeming the weakness of the current rulling class and avocating for a more equal rulling system. Later on, Mao would join the Chinese Communist Party and emerge as its undisputed leader.
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