China: A Century of Revolution [1911 -1949] Part 1

Editor's Introduction: This is the first of a 3 part, 6 hour series of the history of the Chinese Revolution. We plan to publish Parts II and III in the future. Watch this if you want to understand China, how it arrived at its place in the world today, and the principles, mistakes and successes of China's revolutionary communist party and the methods of counter-revolution including everything from deadly foreign imperialist agendas to economic and military strategies and tactics.

In Part One, you will see how the US used the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to save their own ass in WWII against Japan and how later President Truman abandoned the CCP in the US anti-communist panic - and how they gradually wormed their way into the corrupt anti-communist Chiang Kai-shek regime, despite his embezzlement and corruption ... and lost. The Chiang Kai-shek and his party leaders eventually fled China for Taiwan where the US protected them. From Taiwan, Chiang Kai-shek's mission was to overthrow the communist government in China and the US continues their support for that effort today.

At the time of the Mao/people's victory over the US/Chiang regime the people of China's communist party had a joke, "Our equipment all came from the United States and Chiang Kai-shek. There was a joke among the soldiers. They said that Chiang was the best supplier of American weapons. That was the joke. They said that after we win, we'll give him a medal that weighs a ton because he did such a good job for us."

Most important for us in today's world is the process, the "trial and error" experience of revolution as it occured in the Chinese Revolution in the middle of the 20th century. We see some of the same kinds of things happening in the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela today but clearly, President Chavez and his government have studied and learned from historic revolutions like this one and what we are witnessing now in Latin America is a product of lessons learned ... mistakes to avoid ... intelligence and methods to apply. This documentary shows the treachery and stupidity of Chiang Kai-shek and the US State Department and the intelligence (and errors) of Chairman Mao Zedong and most of all the courage and endurance of the Chinese people. Watch this educational, deeply emotional and mind altering documentary. Question: What lessons are to be learned by the resistance to imperialism today in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Africa, Iran and South America from China's Century of Revolution?

"No death ... No Victory."

"It is easy to seize power, but difficult to maintain it.

- Les Blough, Editor

Epilogue: In 1975, 26 years after Chiang came to Taiwan, he died in Taipei at the age of 87. He had suffered a major heart attack and pneumonia in the months before and died from renal failure aggravated with advanced cardiac malfunction at 23:50 on April 5.

Madame Chiang Kai-shek, one of the most influential women in the recent history of China and Taiwan, died at her New York home, aged 105.

Madame Chiang was born Soong May-ling on China's southern Hainan island in 1898.

Her family background illustrates the changes and opposing ideals which split China during the 20th century.

Her father, Charles Soong, was educated in the US, and both she and her two sisters received a western education, unusual for Chinese women at the time. In 1949 Chiang's forces lost the civil war to Mao Zedong's Communists, and Madame Chiang fled with her husband to the island of Taiwan.

Her supporters admired her as a force for international friendship and understanding.

But her detractors viewed her as an arrogant "dragon lady", entrenched in what they regarded as a corrupt regime.

Madame Chiang remained a powerful figure in Taiwan until the early 1970s, when her husband's health began to deteriorate.

When his son by a previous marriage, Chiang-Ching-kuo, took over as leader, Madame Chiang's influence waned.

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