ABSTRACT
The linear progression in Western history contrasts sharply with the dynastic cycles in Chinese history. Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, the Chinese Communist Party worked for the renewal of the nation's bottom structure. The practice of maintaining a rigid moral standard is by no means limited to contemporary Chinese historians. China's social backwardness, combined with an abundance of manpower, had dictated a strategy of inviting the enemy into the quagmire and bogging him down with a protracted campaign, which could not have been executed by an army of quality but lacking in numbers and depth. Chiang Kai-shek had a plan to reduce the Chinese army to a force of eight hundred thousand men, organized into sixty-five infantry divisions, eight cavalry brigades, sixteen artillery regiments, and eight regiments of engineers. In 1987, the CCP published The Annals of Major Events of the Chinese Communist Party, with a first printing of fifty thousand copies.
