The annual population growth 1912-1949 was 0.47% while that of the time period 1949-1976 was 1.7% while fertility rates were constant, and indeed, lower in the 70's. Why is this? In chemistry the most basic reactor model is input - output + generation - annihilation= accumulation. There is absolutely no other way to go. If we neglect migration (which is actually quite accurate for that time period) then why was the accumulation 3 times lower? I'll tell you why: because the annihilation (death rate) term was higher. Why was it higher?
Well, you might say that's because of the Japanese invasion. But that's an outright lie too, you see, because if Mao really starved that many people, it would've been the same order of magnitude as the Japanese invasion, and cause a similar drop in the population growth - but it didn't. We are missing 100 million people from the KMT era, where are they? Does your peanut head daddy have an answer?
Of course not. Peanut head was busy drowning people in the 1938 Henan Floods (a google term right there) and killing millions overnight to slow down Japan by 1 week.
Also, what's wrong with reforming traditional culture? The ROC was the one who started it. Read Lu Xun. He was a huge critic of traditional culture, and indeed, Lu Xun was correct. Indeed, I believe you have a weak foundation in modern literature, otherwise you would've known that the KMT had the same ideology. Also what's so great about traditional culture today? Cultures change. You're deluding yourself if you think otherwise. Why is it that in one of the cities with the most modern culture, Beijing, 100 people will stop a train from running over a man, while in traditional Guangdong a 2 year old gets run over multiple times?
Poorest country? Under peanut head's watch our GDP per capita was lower than Congo at the time. You know how to measure poverty? GDP is just a number, especially at that time period. The important thing is life expectancy and hard capabilities. Guess what the life expectancy in the ROC era was? How about death rates? Any leading edge technologies?
We aren't going to turn back the clock for you, or for anyone else. The old sick man of Asia is dead and buried since 1949, and none of that has been thanks to the likes of you. Xi already said, the history from 1949-1976 is an integral part of our history, and no one can ever deny it, and surely not the likes of you.