Genesis
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So the Sino-Soviet Split was because the USSR was too liberal with their tech?Bla bla bla CCP pro, KMT trash, blabla, Russia abandoned us bla bla, China strong!!!!11
Come back when you have something concrete not cheaply paid hot air.
While that may be......admittedly i wouldn't know about literacy, but on other things you mention you are not being completely forthcoming, namely the external factors in the timeframe you mention.....China was hit by great depression, then Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, then outright invasion in 1937 and by the time you mention 1949 a civil war has just ended.
Not really a good environment to produce literates etc....unlike post 1949 when CCP had lots and lots of external help, predominantly from USSR.
You also neglect to mention the turmoil in 1912 after fall of Qing when the country fell into chaos and regional warlords ruled and that control over the country was established by KMT only by 1927.
Fair and unbiased assesment eh? :lol
China received FDI as early as 1930's.....perhaps if KMT (reunifying the country in 1927) would have won the civil war the embrio of Chinese dream wouldn't have to be put on hold until 1980's and Deng. I would dare wager that is even the more likely of outcomes....
Economic history of China (1912–49) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As for your last statement, penniless Vietnamese refugees are better at honest debate (when the talk isn't Vietnam) than you will ever be.
In short, your post is a complete fallacy (like we didn't see that coming), comparing two uncomparables, which are uncomparable by mere examination of external factors involved.
Would KMT have been better? On the surface it certainly seems so, until you remember they had purges not better than we did, except, by 1945, had there been no Communists, another civil war would have broke out again anyways, though this time Chang would have the decisive advantage, but a civil war never the less.
By 1980s, Japan was a willing partner, manufacturing was shifting out of the developed world, environmental regulations, higher wages and all those things contributed far more than a willing China in our economic recovery. This is also the reason I am skeptical on some other nation's dream of doing the economic "miracle."
Japan didn't really come into its own until much later, and that was with a far more developed country than China at the turn of 1950s.
I like to think what ifs too, but the thing about what ifs is that it's best left alone, we know what's already happened, and that is good enough.
We also need to remember for all the bad CCP did, it made China the world's biggest atheists, realists, and it made gender equality(though still rather unequal) a thing that people can accept.
I mean today, you be shocked at what a authoritarian Communist China allows, tolerates or even welcomes in China.