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Question.6:'Ultimatelly the Guomindang failed because it never understood the character of the social conditions prevailing in China'. Discuss. China traditionally was a conservative nation basically found on confuciaism where by they had a hierarchical structure, authority of which was by the mandate of heaven. In other wards the ruling authority (emperor) derived legitimacy from this notion. This implied that, their power to rule or condemn any offence was justified by heavenly mandate, so the subjects (Chinese citizens) were to obey with no questions or complaints. We realise that China for a long time up to1'over two thousand years,' remained deliberately closed to foreign influences because of their strong cultural sentiments, which according to them were superior to any other nation, but in 1840 Western nations (France and Britain) used their military might to impose themselves on China such that by 1900 many Chinese ports (over fifty 'treaty ports') were in the foreign...

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