Arguably, the China History commenced in 1912 after the Qing Dynasty. In 1890s, the Boxer rebellion appeared to be the final wheeze of the Chinese nationalism which was under control of the Qing. The Qing faced various challenges in his regime; there were a number of warlords he also had a challenge from the foreign powers. Immediately after the Boxer rebellion, there was 25 years of the warlordism which botched the democratic revolution in the control of the Sun Yat-sen, an enhancement of the Marxist Leninist elucidation. Ultimately there was a faction nationally under the Kuomintang; the movement enhances the resistance against the Japan which was under a fight with the Chinese government.
Perhaps, there was integration of the republic in 1928 under the national party of Chinese or the Kuomintang, in the early phase of modernization and industrialization, the country was caught in some unrest. The conflict was between the nationalist party which was formerly the communist party of china remnant warlords, Kuomintang (KMT) administration, and Japan (Fairbank 23). The economic development like industrialization and the general modernization was standstill during this moment of war resistant in opposition to Japan. On the other hand, there was a serious rebuilding of all the economic developments during this war time. Japan was targeting to be the most industrialized society away from the backward feudal system. They aimed at successfully challenging the west in military and economic developments.
The alliance between the community party of Chinese and the Kuomintang was faced with a lot of challenges posed by the war with Japan. During this time every development progress was put on halt, the China now plunged into a civil war which made restrain China from emerging to be a strong state. Much of the China resources were used in the war against Japan, which was frightfully expensive; this made the development of the Chinese government both in the military empowerment as well as, economic progress. Furthermore, various challenges in democratic issues in China existed. Certainly, in 1970s there were various changes in the democratic recognitions; that is peoples republic of China from the republic of China (Fairbank 30).
The reason why China failed to be a strong nation is evident during the Warlord Era between 1916 and 1928. This is because there was changing alliances of local warlords’ battle for power of the Beijing administration after the death of Yuan Shikai. Although there were several warlords that attained control of the regime in Beijing in the warlord era, there was no governance or control over them. Other warlords never recognized the transitory regimes in this era and were a ruling unto them. This warlord period ended in 1927. The China State was also negatively affected by the World War I as well as the brief Manchu restoration (Fairbank 50). Li Yuanhong took over the Presidency and Duan Qirui took over the Premier after Yuan Shikai's death. This was followed by the reinstatement of the Provisional Constitution as well as convinced of parliament.
Undeniably, the problem arose because both Li Yuanhong with Duan Qirui had several conflicts. One of the most conspicuous one was China's World War I entrance. It is clear that China had continued to be neutral since the occurrence of the war. This went on until when the United States recommended all neutral nations to unite the Allies. This was aimed at condemnation of Germany's exploitation of open submarine warfare (Fairbank 63). Although the Premier Duan Qirui supported joining the Allies targeting opportunity of securing advances from Japan to increase his Anhui Clique forces, he was opposed by President Li Yuanhong. The two parties in the parliament had ugly debates concerning the China’s entry. This resulted in dismissal of Duan Qirui from the government by Li Yuanhong in May 1917. Hence, this contributed enormously towards the failure of Chinese State to emerge a strong state in the subsequent years.
Work cited
Fairbank, J. The Cambridge History of China. New York: Wiley, 2001.
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