... the abdication of the Qing emperor in return for his own appointment as president of the republic. Also in 1912, a new revolutionary party was formed. This party, called the Guomindang, believed in parliamentary democracy and the principle of electing the officials. Because Yuan disagreed with GMD's ideas, he ... pursued. This was because the landlords and the warlords were cruelly taking advantage of the people, making their life miserable. Democracy, which he never reached, was no issue for Chiang, due to lack of basics in such a political leadership. He never gave the people a right ...

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... mainland, Taiwan began its ascent from tyranny to democracy. The factors which helped lead towards this democratization are very straightforward: First, Taiwan had reached a socioeconomic level that fulfilled the precondition for democracy; e.g., high per-capita income Second the lack of landlords and big capitalists and the cross ... March 18, 2000, Taiwan held its second free presidential elections, which resulted in Chen Shui-bian, a pro-independence candidate from the Democratic Progressive Party . This ended over fifty years of Nationalist rule in Taiwan. Although this is promising...

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... the balance of trade; they would export more than they import. In 1973, British desired an increase in trading rights but emperor Qianlong refused. Sometime after this demand, China has reached a period of decline. Then the Industrial Revolution had created a need for extended markets in European goods. In the 1800's, Western nations began to use their rising power and glory to ... to peasants. The Communists became known as "The Red Bandits" and Jieshi wanted them gone. He began to organize extermination campaigns to get rid of them. In 1934 the Communist party had made a stand and tra...

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... his agricultural policies, but also at his personal ideology and his economical policy. A very curious situation appeared that intellectuals inside and outside the party were sent to factories, communes, mines, and public works projects for manual labor in order to transform their stubbornly reactionary thinking. Instead, ... only five or ten years could be accomplished simply by the sustaining mobilization of masses. During 1950s and 1960s, the personality cult around Mao reached grotesque heights: "Mao was an infallible semi-divine being". Mao was compared to the sun and people believe...

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... have done. Mohandas Gandhi guided the people of India to self-rule through his plan of non-cooperation and civil disobedience. Even though he was jailed many times, he always reached out to the people and moved them to act. Gandhi studied and practiced Henry David Thoreau's theory of civil disobedience, (Brower, 85). Gandhi would rather be imprisoned than obey unjust ... came for India. Gandhi incorporates every aspect of India as a whole and has knowledge and mental strength to spread his philosophy. Mao Tsetung (Zedong) was apart of the Chinese Communist Party. He studied Lenin's theo...

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Life in China In China life was pretty miserable for many years under the control of Mao Zedong. The future of China lay in the hands of the communist party. Much of the country lay in devastation and ruin. Mao proclaimed that the Soviet Union should be the model for China to follow after and imitate their communism. They copied ... the Soviets one-party system with Mao holding the positions of president of the republic, head of the People's Liberation Army. During the 1950's major reforms altered Chinese society as well as the state ... Southeast Asia. In the 1980's Japanese financial and t...

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