ABSTRACT
The Chinese Civil War could not have been a case of Gandhi mounting a campaign of nonviolence, for there was no side in China to play the principled role of the British. The issue has salience, because a particular, if unstated, theme in the scholarship of the Chinese Revolution has been the moral failure of the Kuomintang (KMT) to grapple with the plight of the populace. Hence Chiang Kai-shek took steps which indicate he believed the amalgamation would reinvigorate the KMT at no loss to the youthful, revolutionary spirit of the Youth Corps. In addition to representing the KMT Wang Sheng himself had become a party member when he entered the Central Military Academy. Chiang Ching-kuo, for instance, whom Heinlein does not mention in his account, was still Political Warfare Chief in Youth Corps Headquarters, effectively the leading figure in that organization.
