chinas dynastic cycle

Question 4 China went through dynastic, imperial rule, Western and Japanese encroachments on its sovereignty and territories, nascent national unification under Sun Yat Sen and Chiang Kai Shek, and a successful Communist revolution since 1949 that drove the KMT forces under Chiang to Taiwan. Mao unified China as never before as the world’s largest Communist state but plunged her into economic disaster through his economic experiments and a cultural revolution. After Mao’s death in 1976, Deng …

…itself, although what form this democracy will take has yet to be determined. The main question now is how to get from here to there, and how fast. China continues to move towards "big society, small government." Doing so has unleashed some of the latent energy of the Chinese people, and has resulted in huge economic gains. Bibliography Huntington, Samuel P. (1991), The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. University of Oklahoma Press. p.7.