The Place and Role of Improvement and Revolution in the Development of Modern Chinese Society

Improvement could avoid destruction to the greatest extent possible, but the disadvantage was equally obvious, that is, it was not as thorough as revolution. Revolution, on the contrary, inevitably brings great disasters to the society after breaking up the old one. Both paths have been tried in China, but personally I prefer social improvement. Some may say that China's reform movement failed, didn't it? Yes, the Hundred Days' Reform, the largest reform movement in modern China, failed miserably. When textbooks analyze the reasons for the failure, they generally say that Kang and Liang were too politically na?ve, and that they began to place their hopes on an emperor who had no real power, and then took the risk of believing in the speculator Yuan Shikai. I think this analysis is not correct. Who else could a top-down reform rely on if not the ruler! The emperor had no power, how could he seize it without violence? It should be said that Kang and Liang did not make a big mistake in these two initiatives, the biggest mistake was that the object they chose to improve was not the orthodox Chinese ruler. What the Manchu Qing established on the ruins of the Ming dynasty was not a Chinese regime succeeding the Ming dynasty, but an outright colonial regime, which upheld only the interests of the colonial class (the Manchu aristocracy), and where their biggest interest lay was the long term use of China's main ethnic group (Han Chinese) as slaves, which is a fundamental interest that is not negotiable, didn't Empress Dowager Cixi have a saying! "rather to foreign thieves, not family slaves", very image reflects this point, the western oppression again, but only to share some of the spoils of war, and after the improvement of the loss of all, the Manchu will be how to choose, self-evident. Yuan Shikai's revolt was merely a sign that he could see the situation clearly. Even if the mutiny succeeded, it would still end in failure because the improvement touched the interests of the entire ruling class.

Improvement is not an option, so you have to have a revolution, and the negative effects of revolution are evident in China, where the Xinhai Revolution, which plunged the country into a 30-year-long civil war, lost a lot of territory and lost the chance to catch up with the world. The subsequent ****productivist revolution, although basically united China, and long-term prosperity certainly, but the tide of the revolution destroyed China's traditions, and even the inheritance of the written word is cut off, and more seriously, the left-leaning revolutionary ideology, will be China's self-exclusion from the international community, once again missed the opportunity to pout again.

Time has changed, and today's leaders have finally woken up to the painful lessons learned, and have begun to vigorously develop the productive forces and fight for the great renaissance of the Chinese nation.