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Not true, see the Mandate of Heaven and its emphasis on Right of Rebellion: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_of_Heaven https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma

Not true, see the Mandate of Heaven and its emphasis on Right of Rebellion: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_of_Heaven https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_of_Heaven If famines persisted, it was seen as as the doing of the emperor and that they were unworthy and thus could be replaced by anyone who had military strength, the Han dynasty founder was essentially a middle-class policeman. Moreover emperors have long been got rid of by the Chinese Revolution of 1911, if people are sheeple, why would they violently depose their emperor? You seem to also have forgotten the Tiananmen protests and subsequent massacre, which were against the Cultural Revolution and Great Famine.

baybal2 8y ago
That's all not in small part because the best and brightest people of the generation killed each other in a civil war. With all Jiang Zemin's flaws, his best move was to "politically castrate" the party, and distance intra-party affairs from state governance. This is what made the two decades of progress possible: civil servants without little red books instead of brains. In the current CCPs internal lingo, there is a term "Marxist ghosts" that was around since Jiang first took reign. The party has been long purging Marxist hardliners, but so far, have not came to full realisation why they have to do so other than "because they screwed up"