what were the factors which contributed to the rise of the Communist party in china
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Answer:desperate conditions for the rural peasantry throughout the first half of the 20th cent.--like the Soviets, the CCP grew around a nucleus of urban, educated middle-class intellectuals but drew its strength from the rural poor; the CCP had "street cred" when it talked about supporting the proletariat--any peasant could look to examples of dirt-poor peasants who fought their way up the ranks to PLA field marshals, they could look at real CCP land reform, they could look at industries nationalized by the CCP, and so on...love em or hate them the early CCP walked the talk
weak, ineffective, and corrupt governments from the end of the Qing, through the warlord era, and the Republic--in that power vacuum some stable regime was going to eventually establish itself
KMT incompetence in the during the Japanese invasion and the immediate post-war liberation of occupied territories--the CCP waged a very effective propaganda campaign against the KMT portraying them as vacillating at best and conspiring against the Chinese people at worst: it wasn't at all true but KMT failure to remove and prosecute conspirators with the Japanese in vast liberated areas badly hurt their public image, and outraged Chinese who lived under Japanese control for years...also hyperinflation and logistical mismanagement indicated to many liberated Chinese that the Japanese were actually more competent governors
like many post-colonial Communist regimes the CCP offered a vision of national unity and a national ideal that spoke directly to the aspirations of the Chinese people
decent leadership--barring Mao's excesses and the Cultural Revolution--the CCP cultivated a technocratic, pragmatic leadership that often did act in what they considered the best long-term interests of the Chinese nation
list of positive accomplishments--simplified Chinese characters, drastically increased literacy, educated for women, dramatically raised life expectancy (with some obvious setbacks), slowed China's runaway population growth, built massive infrastructure and mitigated the catastrophic floods that have repeatedly devastated China, and put China on the geopolitical map as a regional, nuclear power that commanded respect