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Since the foundation of the political teachings of Mao Tse-tung and Liu Shao-chi is dialectical materialism and historical materialism, further studies on this subject can best be made in terms of the historical conditions of China and be approached from the basis of class analysis. Marx and Engels did not make any extensive study of the economically underdeveloped regions of the world during their life times, but Lenin and Stalin dealt with such problems generally and even specifically in relation to China. Both the orthodox Soviet views and the official Chinese Communist line have affirmed that modern China in the period beginning in 1840 (Opium War), and continuing up to the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, was semi-feudal and semi-colonial in her social character. One cannot, in the final analysis, find notable distinctions between the views of Mao and those of the Soviet theoreticians on China’s semi-colonial and semi-feudal nature, although Mao developed the subject in greater detail.
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Chen, Y.P. (1966). Chinese Conditions. In: Chinese Political Thought. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0493-5_3
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