Youwei WENG, Li WANG. Modern China’s Regime Change and the Rebuilding of National Central Power[J]. JOURNAL OF UNIVERSITY OF JINAN (Social Science Edition), 2022,32(3):58-69.
Youwei WENG, Li WANG. Modern China’s Regime Change and the Rebuilding of National Central Power[J]. JOURNAL OF UNIVERSITY OF JINAN (Social Science Edition), 2022,32(3):58-69.DOI:
China has experienced great changes unseen in several thousand years
with internal and external troubles rising
and the original order difficult to maintain. In the face of such crises
the Qing rulers stuck to the interests of the royal family group
who had neither strength nor wisdom to control the overall situation and neither virtue nor ability to win support from the gentry and the people. Local powers took the opportunity to grow
and eventually the 1911 Revolution took place
which led to the establishment of the Republic of China. However
the Republic of China started with no foundation and there was no force powerful enough to support its normal operation. As a result
the local powers in the early Republic of China gained strength. Conflicts continued
and each power resorted to force as the main means to solve problems. The country's political life was militarized
national power was localized and armies were privately owned by warlords. Such a situation could not be changed easily even after the establishment of Nanjing Nationalist Government. The fundamental reason is the absence of national central political power. Regime changes and the rebuilding of the national central power in modern China show that the formation and establishment of the CPC as the national central power is the result of the evolution and development of modern Chinese history
and the result of the CPC's victory in the struggle amidst blood and fire for the country and the nation.