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ON July 23, 1921, the Chinese Communist Party was founded in Shanghai. Since then, the communists in China have metamorphosed many times, but always on the premise that China is destined to be a nation with a unique destiny and a unique purpose.
One of those who were present at the time when the Communist Party was born was young Mao Zedong, a librarian at Beijing University. Like most other communist leaders, he was from a prosperous peasant family, had studied well and was upset with the behaviour of the Chinese elite. The thing which perturbed the educated young ones was that the Chinese elite seemed most eager to accept the total superiority of foreigners, were willing to accept the foreigners’ judgements about all that was wrong with China and were willing to subordinate the interests of China and the Chinese people to the interests of the foreigners. In 1919, the university-educated young ones had risen in rebellion against the Chinese elite in what came to
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