中国读本丛书-谋幸福 谋复兴 谋大同：中国共产党是怎样的党（英）

作者简介

李东方，中央党史和文献研究院第一研究部助理研究员。主要从事中共党史和理论研究，著有《长征与中国共产党的政治理念传播：基于政治社会化理论的分析》（专著），《历史性变革——我们中国这五年》（合著），《生态文明：从理论到行动》（合著）等，先后参与《中国共产党的九十年》《中国共产党历史组织机构辞典》《中国共产党全国代表大会史》等著作的编写，在报刊发表文章多篇。

内容简介

China is an ancient civilization with a long history. With its diligence and wisdom, the Chinese nation created the world’s leading ancient civilization and made a significant contribution to the development and progress of mankind. However, in modern times, some Western countries have gone through the bourgeois revolution and completed the industrial revolution one after another, and have rapidly become stronger. At this time, the Qing dynasty opted to cut itself off from the outside world, being ignorant of the general situation of the world and arrogant. It cruelly exploited its people internally, which made the people suffer a lot. By the 1930s and 1940s, the decline of the Qing dynasty was deepening day by day, and crises loomed from within and the outside. In 1840, Britain, then the number one capitalist power in the West, launched the Opium War to invade China, opening the door of China with strong ships and artillery, forcing the Qing government to sign the first unequal treaty “Nanjing Treaty” and forcing China to cede territory and pay indemnities. Since then, Western aggressors have swarmed in, and successively launched the Second Opium War, the Sino-French War, the Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895), and the Siege of the International Legations, forcing the Qing government to sign one humiliating treaty after another, which severely infringed China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. The imperialist countries either invaded and occupied China’s territory, or blackmailed China’s “reparations”. They divided “spheres of influence” on Chinese land, set up concessions, station troops, and used the privileges granted by unequal treaties to manipulate China’s financial and economic lifeline, thus dominating Chinese politics and grabbing huge interest in China. Under the dual oppression of imperialism and feudalism, the Chinese people, especially the peasant group, which accounts for the vast majority of the Chinese population, became increasingly impoverished and bankrupted in large numbers. They lived a life of hunger and coldness with no political rights. The level of poverty and unfreedom of the Chinese people was rare in the world. “中国读本”丛书，以让世界更好地读懂中国为出发点，重点向国外读者介绍中国道路、中国理论、中国制度和中国实践。