HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL ASPECTS OF THE REFORMS OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

Abstract

China began to realize the shortcomings of its statehood in the late 1970s. As we critically examine the ways of statehood in China and the former Soviet Union, we see that China's "arrogance" in the international arena, and its overestimation of its own power, was one of the reasons for its spiritual decline. Confucianism as a doctrine has taken a central place in Chinese society. It has stabilized as an ideology of social power that embodies organizationally strong, unchanging forms and ideas, conservative views. Adherence to form, respect for etiquette, even if superficial, not to lose the image - all these features have played an important role in statehood. The norms of Confucianism were seen as a factor of social stability in the countryConfucian doctrine