... defeat of the Taiping rebellion. Qing officials, such as Zeng Guofan, were the ones who stopped the rebellion and also carried out much needed reforms to end corruption in the bureaucracy and revive the Chinese economy. In the later part of the 19th century these leaders were the ones who were responsible for China's self-strengthening movement, and it's goal was to counter the ... 's pressure. Unlike the Chinese they did not have huge revolts that endangered the government but they tried to improve themselves as much as they could throughout the 19th century. During the first half of th...

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... subsidies; we can presume this money could be used to help industry once again because we know that industry is a sector requiring a lot of capital and still widely present in the Chinese economy. Another good point for China is that they did not really suffer the slowdown of 2001 or at least they underwent it but not so much as many other countries ... same time the exports have soared 50% in 2001. But China is already limited in arable lands and in water resources but problems such as air pollution, soil erosion or the fall of the water table is not really encouraging for the followin...

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... Ready to sell to the Chinese the British came with ships full of opium. The Chinese population became fixated on opium, and silver began to vanish in China in exchange for the new drug. This vast exchange had begun to disrupt the Chinese economy. The imperialism that the British were bringing on the Chinese people made their economy decline. The Chinese government inevitably stepped up and took ... communism, China was united under Communist rule. This nation faced many challenges after becoming Communist. Mao had to overcome poverty, starvation, illiteracy, and disease, which lingered i...

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... perception and affected their decision over what to do about some critical decisions. Granted, opium was a serious problem, but even the most simplest of life forms, barbarians, can cause major problems. After China losing the Opium Wars, they marked the entrance of western imperialism into China with Treaty of Nanking. If China perceived the West as a real threat and not as ... helped undermine the confidence of the Chinese people in their own government. This also alienated another group of people in a society plagued with inequalities: from peasant to gentry. The two elements describ...

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... French, which meant that the government lost a lot of the support from the Chinese population. The Opium War was just one of these occasions. Along with the humiliating Treaty of Nanjing in 1842, the Chinese people were left with next to no faith in their government, as well as addiction problems which were causing societies to break up and become very uncomfortable place to live ... . In addition to this, the massive outflow of Chinese currency to foreign opium providers was causing a major silver shortage in China, meaning that the economy was worse than ever ... . However, the Treaty ...

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... around Tiananmen Square, including the Great Hall of the People, built in 1959, where the national legislature meets. Several blocks east of the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square is Wangfujing Avenue, the city's most famous shopping district. III. Economy Print section As the nation's capital and political center, the particular economic role of Beijing has been a topic of ... major hub for shopping, retailing, and trade, and international products and brands are now commonplace. Since the 1980s joint ventures with foreign companies have become common, and the local economy not only i...

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... astronomical and musical instruments, and glasses impressed the Chinese officials, although Western ideas never won acceptance at court. Before the arrival of the English and the Dutch, the inflow of vast amounts of foreign silver led to an increase in inflation, but the arrival of the Europeans disrupted the silver trade. This strained the Chinese economy and caused the value of silver to rise ... relative to the value of copper. In 1514, the Portuguese arrived in China and the Portuguese ships became involved in the regional trade network, carrying silk to Japan in return for Japanese...

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... building, it meant corruption. The government increased taxes, seeing that people were making more money, it also used the state of the economy to boost the emperor's power. The Tang Dynasty also suffered from isolation that hindered its growth in the world. The next dynasty was the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty was much like the Tang Dynasty before it. The Song ... over. A good government is one that interacts with the people, and how well the laws are written and followed through. The Chinese ruled dynasties had severe problems in doing this. Take in account the golden era for exampl...

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... magnitude of savagery the bandits possessed. Not surprisingly, all of these disastrous factors led to a rise in suicides. The clarity in which Mr. Spence illustrates these events gives the reader an interpretation which is overwhelming. A clear insight to T'an-ch'eng's economy and it's economic policies is explained in chapter two, The Land. T'an-ch'eng's government had a rather simple philosophy, the more a ... a schedule of nine tax payments. People were required to pay more during the harvest seasons and less during the hottest midsummer months. Chinese government was structured and ...

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... stable with a strong central government, economic revolution, agriculture improved by its infrastructure and that led to an increase in population, which led to urbanization, the interaction with others, and the spread of Chinese culture and art with poems, paintings, and other pieces of literature. Like the other dynasties, the Tang ... instead of using the paper money that the Yuan offered they changed it into silver coins, which eventually caused economic problems (people had to pay taxes now). Then in 1644, the Ming Dynasty fell and the Qing dynasty took over. On the other hand ther...

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