Chapter 10 Ten China Today

Dr. Sun Yat-sen, the founder of the Republic of China, had passed away when Zhu Pin arrived in Beijing in 1930.His mantle was passed on to a young man - Chiang Kai-shek. Chiang Kai-shek led the Northern Expedition in Guangdong, which eventually reunited China.The Kuomintang troops marched north, easily reorganizing the warlords of the provinces.By the end of 1926, the Kuomintang had reached Hankou on the Yangtze River. In April 1927, the Nationalist Government was established in Nanjing, and in June 1928, the Nationalist Army occupied Beijing.There were still many powerful warlords entrenched in the north, but the KMT adopted a different strategic arrangement, and these warlords were subjugated, absorbed, and fragmented.By the winter of 1930, a unified country under the Kuomintang rule had been established.

The seven years from 1930 to the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War in 1937 were the seven years of national reconstruction.The Kuomintang is in its heyday and has not yet entered old age.Young China is full of hope, confidence and optimism.Men wear roll-up sleeves and girls wear short-sleeved shirts for government jobs.China, reunified after twenty-five years of division and repression, is gradually becoming a unified modern country.Air forces are training; ports are being built; railroads are being rapidly extended; hospitals, universities, and museums are being built.Just before the start of the Japanese invasion of China on July 7, 1937

(Marco Polo Bridge Incident outside Beijing), a double-deck steel bridge near Hankou has just been completed. The memory left by the Japanese to the Chinese is deep and terrifying.A strong, unified and modern China shattered the dream of the "Great Asian Empire" clamored by the Japanese militarists under the rule of the Japanese Emperor. From 1937 to 1945, the Chinese people waged an arduous war of resistance against Japan.People across the country migrated westward to lands free from Japanese occupation, mainly to the mountainous regions of Sichuan Province, where the Kuomintang government established a temporary wartime capital in Chongqing.All factories, as well as machinery and equipment, were transported inland along the Yangtze River by boat and manpower.Men, women, and children migrated inland with carts, boats, mules, or any other means of transportation possible, carrying the baguettes.China lost a large area of ​​rivers and mountains after retreating.Chiang Kai-shek's strategy was to "keep the green hills alive without worrying about lack of firewood." This strategy was supported by people's anti-Japanese sentiment, and they never succumbed to the superior force.

The Pearl Harbor incident broke out in 1941, and China officially became an ally of the United States.But before 1940, under the pressure of Japan, Britain closed the Burma Road, which was the only material supply line from foreign countries in China. Thousands of Chinese workers and farmers worked hard to build it. However, China is rapidly facing the danger of economic collapse.After the hopes of the first post-war year, the country was demoralized, hopeless and bewildered.The Kuomintang army was short of food and clothing, neglected, and degraded to a pitiful state. From July 1945 until May 1946, Soviet troops occupied Manchuria.The battle between the Kuomintang and the Chinese Communist Party for Manchuria has begun. "China experts" declared to Chiang Kai-shek's allies that the Chinese communists were not communists.Under external pressure and against such judgments, the corrupt Kuomintang army was forced from Chaerhan

(Kalgsn) retreat.This strategic railway center controlled the gateway to Manzhouli, which opened the door for the Chinese Communists, who were vying for Japanese military equipment.The poorly equipped Chinese Communist army marched into Manchuria, and three years later they captured and bombarded Jinxi with cannons for seventy-two hours. After the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, the corruption of the Kuomintang became more and more prevalent, and people became increasingly dissatisfied with inflation.The Communist Party of China is victorious. In 1949, the Communist Party of China completed the unification of the mainland, and Chiang Kai-shek's government fled to Taiwan, where it became a bastion for those Kuomintang veterans.

In Asia, the number of Chinese is steadily increasing, which is not a good thing, overpopulation means more poor people.Too many flowers will not bloom brilliantly if planted too close together.Now it is officially announced that China's population has reached 650 million. About 10 million Chinese have emigrated overseas, such as Thailand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Africa, North and South America, and Europe.Chinese people live alone or in groups, and they can be found in every corner of the world.In Newfoundland, Teninidas, Dresden, Paris, London, New York, and Helena... They have no rights to consular protection, permeate everywhere like water and live for practical purposes, they Never think about it.They have always understood that the best protection is good deeds, work hard, focus on their careers and save frugally, they have nothing but these and few relatives, and they live tenaciously all over the world.

Overseas Chinese usually get rich through their frugality, hard work and wisdom, but in Europe and America, they often keep their own way of life.This return to their own people's way of life has prevented them from integrating into the country in which they live.They are still Chinese.These common hallmarks are: focus on one's own career, not seeking political protection, common sense, good-natured humor, and extreme emphasis on personal relationships.They still have personalities; they may or may not be rich, but they love that state of being.They believe that the purpose of all civilizations is to enable people to exist as independent and self-respecting individuals, free to pursue their own careers and pursue their own goals.