1. Speculations on Law and Society in Modern China
... the centre of that vision was nationalism. He wanted China to play a role in the world of nations as a peer. He could only see this being accomplished by the strengthening of the central government. He stripped the newly constituted representative assembly of its power and, in the end, attempted ... allows the 'great leader' to emerge, but it is certain that by any definition Chairman Mao fit the bill. It was only later that his personality cult would come to dominate national discourse, but even at this point his thought was well formed by twenty years of experience ... modernize....
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