Chris Miller February 20, 2001 Modern Asia Midterm Paper China's Transformation: Confucianism to Communism For two thousand years, China was dominated by a traditional dynastic system. Living with a confuciast ideology, the people of China rarely questioned the authority of the emperor. It seemed that this system of government would never end until it reached the mid-19th century and was forcefully exposed to western thought and politics. Chinese intellectuals, both confused and curious, searched for an …showed first 75 words of 641 total…

…showed last 75 words of 641 total…ready to make change, According to Youwei, if China did not change its political system, it would perish. He believed that Japan was a good model to follow. Going even further than a constitutional monarchy, Sun Yat-Sen wanted to completely get rid of the dynastic system. He called for a republic in China and issued the Three Principles of People to give the Chinese an alternative form of government. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** Sources of Chinese Tradition