Introduction
During the First World War, the Chinese government sided with the allies as they had been promised that the German concession would be handed back to them after the war but to their disappointment, they were handed over to Japan. In May 1919 students from different universities in Beijing formed a nationalist movement in China and in early 1920s, Sun Yatsen became the leader of a nationalist party and he accepted soviet aid (Gao, 34). Sun Yatsen forged an alliance with Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and started to re-unify china so that they could fight with the warlords. In 1925, Dr. Sun Yatsen died of cancer and Chiang Kaishek took over, but he allowed nationalist to control some part of China.
Since the nationalists did not like the communists, they launched a massacre to eliminate them and among those who were able to escape, was a young communist by the name Mao Zedong (Vogel, 71). Unlike Yat-Sen, Mao was a communist. He led China revolution of communist and served as the chairperson of People Republic of China. All the communists were being forced to put aside their urban bases and fled to the countryside and so the communist started to run away. Mao, being the leader of the communist and a paramount leader of china, he was recognised as one of the longest merchers in the party elite. It was after Mao’s death Deng Xiaoping took over and started to introduce social and economic reforms. Deng did not hold an office as a head of state, head of government or even secretary general but he served as a paramount leader of people republic of china (Miles, 136)
These three leaders Sun Yatsen, Mao Zedong and Deng Xiao Ping were all after the welfare of the Chinese people but due to different approaches and strategies used, each of them stands to be different from the other. Deng Xiao Ping was instrumental in China’s economic growth, especially the great leap in the 1960s. The policies of economic development that he used were very different compared to those of Mao Zedong and this resulted to Deng Xiao Ping being purged two times during revolution of culture (Clark, 58). However, he still regained his prominence after out-manoeuvring Mao’s chosen successor in 1978.
Deng always used a saying that “It does not matter whether the cat is black or white; what matters is how well the cat catches the mouse”. On the other hand, Mao Zedong had his favourite slogan, which stated that, “better red than expert” (Vogel, 76). These two slogans shows how different these leaders were, because Mao could have put unqualified person in charge of a project so long as the person support him. On the contrary, Deng Xiao Ping would choose the most qualified in his project regardless of his race and this is what led to Deng achieving economic growth in china. Politically Deng was not active and this led to political instability and if only Deng would have agreed to …