China had eliminated most of its traditional ways, it had distanced itself from foreign interventions and knowledge, and it had adopted a unique Communist model which ruled social, economic, and political transactions from a purely Marxist-Leninist perspective (Spense, 1999). While initially the Communist model helped China to recover from the poverty and problems caused by the Chinese Revolution, this model would not succeed over the long-term. As a result, even Mao Zedong would face political exile and obscurity. However, while Mao Zedong would sit out of Chinese politics for a while, this would not be the last China would hear from …show more content…
He grew up in a transitional generation. The impact of this would be that he would develop a revolutionary personality. This personality would motivate him to overthrow China 's traditional government and culture, and to replace it with a more modern and functional one, at least in his opinion. However, even though he pushed for a Communist government for China, Mao Zedong did not want China to suffer the same problems as the Russians, and so he created a China-specific Communist Model that made China unique among Communist nations. Unfortunately, this did not protect China from the shortcomings of Communism, and eventually this model would be altered beyond