Issues in Studies of Socialism in Modern China

Socialism is one of the most important social ideological trends in modern China.It has always been the cause the forerunners of Chinese people chose to pursue.Socialism has existed in various modern ideological trends in the modern era just as nationalism does.Since the May Fourth Movement,to be more accurate,since the founding of the Communist Party of China,development of socialism in China has followed two different routes.One is the socialist ideas and practice of the Chinese communists and the leftist intellectuals under the leadership of CPC,the other is the socialist ideas and pursuit of the Chinese intellectuals with newspaper editors and university professors as their backbones.The two maintain different understanding and interpretation of socialism.The Soviet Union is the first socialist country in the world.Its model of socialism has heavily influenced the Chinese intellectuals.The belief that planned economy is a basic property of socialism,which has left far-reaching impact on the modern Chinese people's conception of socialism,has been fostered from the conclusion of the USSR's first five-year plan by the Chinese intellectuals in the early 1930s.