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he Communist Party of China (CPC), founded in July 1921, is celebrating its centenary anniversary this month. The party was founded against the backdrop of what the Chinese called a “century of humiliation” in reference to the 19th century when the country was overrun by foreign powers. Despite the collapse of the feudal system that existed for thousands of years and the establishment of a republic in 1911, the problems of the country remained. The fruits of the 1911 revolution that swept away the Qing Dynasty (1636-1912) were quickly grabbed by warlords who continued to ally with foreign powers.

The decisive moment of national ening actually came with the May awakFourth

Movement, when national grief turned into defiance following the failure of the victorious imperialist powers’ conference in Paris to restore some of China’s national

The historical choice of the CPC as the core of the national leadership in a broad coalition of the patriotic alliance of people of all walks of life helped to galvanize unity of purpose, distilled national priorities, and sharpened focus on critical variables necessary to drive modernization on a sustainable basis.

the up the country into their of influence. The failure Paris peace conference to ameliorate national condition provided the historical catalyst for anti-imperialist resistance.

With the echoes of the victory of the Russian Bolshevik revolution in 1917 and the lively debate among the Chinese intelligentsia about the theory of Marxism-leninism and its fitness to drive sustainable struggle for national independence and peoples liberation, the founding of the CPC was both epochal and game-changing in the trajectories of China’s national destiny previously hobbled by the stranglehood of feudalist rule and imperialist oppression.