ABSTRACT
A frame of reference for the relationship between China and the world is the first three decades after the establishment of the People's Republic of China, which is called "the Mao Era". In China's relations with the outside world, struggle was greater than cooperation, suspicion prevailed over coordination, and conflicts overwhelmed dialogue, with a posture of "rebels" against "the powerful". During the first three decades, China largely inherited the basic ideas and practices from the revolutionary war to deal with foreign affairs, and it can be regarded the primary stage for China to position itself in the contemporary international system. In the field of foreign affairs, the relationship between continuation of revolutionary tradition and adaptation to international practices constituted the subtle and complex "double variation" of China's foreign affairs, only with the former always having an overwhelming advantage over the latter. "Revolutionary movement" is occurred one wave after another and imposed direct pressure on diplomatic works to turn "Left".
