To say that the Chinese Communist revolution is a non-Western
revolution is more than a clich'. That revolution has been primarily
directed, not like the French Revolution but against alien Western
influences that approached the level of domination and drastically
altered China's traditional relationship with the world. Hence the
Chinese Communist attitude toward China's traditional past is
selectively critical, but by no means totally hostile. The Chinese
Communist revolution, and the foreign policy of the regime to which it
has given rise, have several roots, each of which is embedded in…
