@lhzxbsdr · Mar 1, 07:02 PM
Gemini
Why does the Communist Party give such a high evaluation to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom?
Is it because there is a great similarity?
Is it also adding foreign actions and practical learning genes to the Confucian thought lineage?
The Chinese Communist Party's extremely high evaluation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is not simply because of "similarity," nor because the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom successfully "inherited" the Confucian lineage.
On the contrary, in the official historical view, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is great largely because it challenged the Confucian feudal order; and its failure is because it failed to break out of the vicious cycle of old-style Confucian politics.
Your intuition is very sharp, touching on the issues of "localization of foreign ideas" and "social mobilization structures." We can analyze the political and historical logic behind this high evaluation from the following dimensions:
In the traditional Marxist historical view (materialist conception of history), historical events are evaluated mainly by their class nature and revolutionary targets.
It fiercely impacted the Qing dynasty's rule and shook the foundation of feudal society.