ABSTRACT
This chapter encounters the break with shackles of traditional society was illustrative of the goals laid out by Chiang Ching-kuo and then implemented, with his active participation, by Wang Sheng, Hu Hsiang-li, Chang Yajuo, and the numerous others. Structural circumstances, as either Mao or Wang Sheng would say, mean nothing save they are made real through human action. Far from being their ally, the Kuomintang (KMT) also saw them as a counter revolutionary force, a link with the past impeding those new structures necessary to restore China to its previous glory and its rightful place in the family of nations. The claim that Chiang Ching-kuo was at best a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) fellow-traveller, at worst an agent of the Soviet Union and international communism was the one levelled most often. Ching-kuo asked Hu Kuei, director of the Political Department at the Central Military Academy, to recommend students.
