And to understand that change I want to go back to the beginning and just to trace what has happened to the Chinese Communist Party since it was formed in nineteen twenty one  when it had a mere  I hope everybody can see that, it's not very  large today  and I don't think I can  any better than that  In nineteen twenty one when it was first founded, it had a mere fifty seven members and it didn't grow very much for a number of years.