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"It was the failure if the 1911 Revolution which made certain that the 1949 one would grow; as in a forest an old tree impeded the vigor of a young one, until lighting feels it or the storm strikes it down.

This failure made many of the young students run away. Others gave up, in bitterness, became cynical. Still others died, killed by Yuan [Shikai]. Yuan placed a military governor in Szechuan after 1913, with the task of hunting down revolutionaries...

Wu Yuchang, the revolutionary student who with Lung Ming-chien raised the flag of the republic at Junghsien...had in 1912 already realized what kind of man Yuan was. He went to see Sun Yat-sen and might have even urged him to not trust Yuan Shikai, but he could do little...

The revolutionary party then set up an association, called the Association for Work and Study in France. Why France? Because some French officers helped the revolutionaries in Wuchang and Shanghai with gun-running and military techniques; France had made the French revolution, ans the young students admired greatly the French Revolution. This scheme was to provide young men with a work permit to go to France, where they would work and study at the same time.

In 1914 came the First World War, and France and other countries desperately needed manpower, Chinese workmen to take the place of the Frenchmen fighting at the front, or dead. Many of thousands of workers and students went to France, and among them were Chou Enlai, today's prime minister of china, and teng Hsiaoping, Li Fuchun, and Nieh Jungchen, all prominent in today's government in China. And many others, as students or workers or both, went to France and returned...bringing back with them not only the ideas of the French Revolution, but also Communism.

And the two streams, of those who went abroad and those who stayed in China, like Mao Tsetung and Chu Teh were to meet, and together to complete the revolution begun by Sun Yatsen. And that was in 1949"- Li Jieren as quoted in the Crippled Tree, published 1965 (Chinese names were transliterated with the wade-giles system, so apologies if some of the names are unfamiliar or don't provide results in searches. [Also sorry if this one wasn't as impactful as I intially thought. The surrounding context of the book helps. But...well obviously I can't just copy and paste the entire book here and I just spent too long typing this out to just delete it])