Kuo Ping-Chia’s China: New Age and New Outlook

A nice 1960 Penguin Special edition of Kuo Ping-chia’s China: New Age and New Outlook (originally published 1956). You can read Kuo’s interesting bio, his move from the Nastionalists (he advised Chiang at Cairo) to broadly supportive of 1949 from his home in America. Kuo (1908-2004) believed that the Nationalists ultimately failed to provide the revolutionary and economic leadership demanded by the masses. And that by neglecting agrarian needs, the KMT lost its vital foundation, including the traditional support of city merchants and rural gentry. Meanwhile the Communists successfully synchronised popular aspirations for peace, order, and national unification with structural reform.