Why the Republic of China Could Conquer the People’s Republic of China

For people reading this, the Republic of China controlled China loosely from 1911 until it lost control of mainland China due to losing the Chinese Civil War from 1927 to 1949 against Mao Zedong, leader of the Communist Red Army.

The Republic of China emerged from the 1911 Chinese revolution that destroyed China’s dynastic administrative system with the government controlled by the Confucius administrator philosophers, court eunuchs and members of the Imperial family.

The system that governed China with its bureaucratic centralised state survived for over 2000 years in various forms from the formation of China, which was first united by the Qin dynasty in 221 BC.

From that period until the 20th century, which was the most recent, Chinese dynasties typically ruled for less than 70 years.

China would enter a period of internal civil wars and warlords fighting for control of China, with the most recent warlord period lasting from 1916 until 1927.

Though China has experienced several golden ages lasting centuries, this has only happened three times in China’s long history. They are in order of age as follows.

China’s first golden age was during the Han dynasty, which lasted from 202 BC until the final destruction of the dynasty in 220 A.D. by the first Cao Wai emperor Cap Pi, thereby ending the Eastern Han Dynasty.