For two thousand years, China was dominated by a traditional dynastic system. Living with a confuciast ideology, the people of China rarely questioned the authority of the emperor. It seemed that this system of government would never end until it reached the mid-19th century and was forcefully exposed to western thought and politics. Chinese intellectuals, both confused and curious, searched for an ideology that would unite China and bring the nation to the same level as the West. The end result of their work was the communist People's Republic of China.

During the period of Chinese Dynastic Rule, Confucianism was the dominating ideology of the people. The ruling system was a multi-tiered patriarchy and everyone was loyal to the emperor. To the Chinese, the outside world was barbaric and should be kept out of their

Following the Taiping Rebellion, China went through what is called the Self-Strengthening Movement (1840-1890). The focus of this movement was to strengthen the dynasty. As Feng Guifen said,

territory. Because China was self-sufficient, they had a tributary trade relationship with the barbarians to ensure good political relations.

Due to the anger that grew from Manchu political reforms, more ideologies formed in China. Kang Youwei, a reformer who was in favor of turning the emperor into a constitutional monarch, said that confucians are reformers, ready to make change,

Going even further than a constitutional monarchy, Sun Yat-Sen wanted to completely get rid of the dynastic system. He called for a republic in China and issued the Three Principles of People to give the Chinese an alternative form of government.

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According to Youwei, if China

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