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1、FEATURESImpactoftheTraditionofSoiidarityandUnityuponCurrentCliineseForeignPolicyByTaoJiyifJ^Uptothepresent,fewAmericanandChinesescholarshaveexaminedcurrentChineseforeignpolicyfromatraditionalChineseculturalperspective.Inthisarticle,IexplorecurrentChineseforeignpolicyfromthestandpoin

2、tofthetraditionofsolidarityandunity[tuanjietongyiS^^—]inChinesehistoryandculture.THETRADmONOFSOLIDARITYANDUNITYINCHINESEHISTORYANDCULTUREInabookentitled,'TheWorldto1500:AGlobalHistory",LeflenS.Stavrianos,acontemporaryAmericanhistorian,suggestedthatthetwoimportantcharacteristicsofChi

3、nesecivilizationwereunityandthecontinuity.[1]Generallyspeaking,hewasright.Chinaisacountrywith5000yearsofcivilization.TheChinesenationisabigfamilycomposedof56nationalities.Asearlyas"theThreeDynastiesofXia,ShangandZhou"[xiashangzhousandaiE^j^^'f^^](fromthe21thcenturyBCto256BC),peopleo

4、fthesenationalitiesbegantoestablishclose-knitlinksandjoinedhandsindevelopingthevastlandofthecountry.ChinabecameavastunifiedcountryintheQinandHan[^iX]Dynasties.Afterunification,themeasuresoftheimperialgovernmentsandtheage-oldChinesecultureforgedastrongfoundationforfutureethicharmonya

5、ndnationalunity.Despiteoccasionalpoliticaldivisions,ethicharmonyandnationalunityhadremaineddeep-rootedinancienthistoryoftheChinesenation.SolidarityandunitywereinscribedintheheartsoftheChinesepeopleaspartoftheirnationalidentity.Inmodemtimes,thecorruptionoftheimperialQing*govemmentand

6、incursionofimperialistforeignpowersweakenedChina.Againstthisbackground,peopleofallethnicgroupsinChinaunitedtoliftthemselvesfromtheirhistoricalplightundersemi-colonialrule.Dr.SunYatsen[#4^ill](1866-1925),China'sforerunnerinthedemocraticrevolution,wasthefirsttoputforwardthesloganof"re

7、juvenationofChina."HeledtheRevolutionof1911tooverthrowtheautocraticmonarchyinChina.Afteronehundredyears'stmggle,Chinahasnowstoodupagainasagiant.ThefoundingofthePeople'sRepublicofChinain1949markedanunprecedentedunityeventoftheChinesenation.Anewtypeofrelationshipofequality,solidaritya

8、ndmutualassistancea