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In 1980, Teng Hsiao-p’ing in a speech at a meeting of cadres called by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China commented:
China always used to be described as ‘a heap of loose sand’. But when our Party came to power and rallied the whole country around it, the disunity resulting from the partitioning of the country by various forces was brought to an end.1
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Teng Hsiao-p’ing, ‘The Present Situation and Tasks’, 16 January 1980 in Wen Hsuan 1975–1982 (Beijing, 1983), p. 231.
Sun Yat-sen, San Min Chu I, trans Frank Price (Shanghai, 1927), p. 192, Sun Zhong Shan Xuanji (Beijing, 1981), p. 172.
John C. Kuan, The KMT-CCP Wartime Negotiations 1937–1945 (Taipei, 1982), p. 1.
Stuart Schram, Mao Tse-tung (Harmondsworth, 1967), p. 202.
Liu Shao-chi, ‘How to be a Good Communist’, July 1939, in Hsüan-chi, Vol. 1 (Beijing, 1981), p. 110.
Mao Tse-tung, ‘On New Democracy’, January 1940, in Hsüan-chi, Vol. 2 (Beijing, 1960), p. 670.
Mao Tse-tung, ‘The Chinese People Have Stood Up’, 21 September 1949, in Hsüan-chi, Vol. 5 (Beijing, 1961), p. 5.
Jung Chang with Jon Holliday, Mme Sun Yat-sen (Harmondsworth, 1986), p. 113.
Michael Fathers and Andrew Higgins, Tiananmen: The Rape of Peking (London, 1989), p. 109.
Han Min Zhu, Cries for Democracy: Writings and Speeches from the 1989 Chinese Democracy Movement (Princeton, 1990), p. 51.
Jude Howell, ‘A Silent Revolution’, in China Review (Summer 2000), p. 11.
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Wells, A. (2001). Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles and the Chinese Communist Party. In: The Political Thought of Sun Yat-sen. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403919755_13
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