... People gave up all sense of private ownership, referring to properties, tools, furnitures, jewelry and even their farm animals to the ownership of the commune. All public services were provided by the communes and all materials required for daily life is provided by the communes as well. However, as ... the Great Leap Forward carried on, at around 1959, people within the communes were faced with impossible tasks in labor ordered by the commune leaders. If they were to fail the accomplishments of these tasks, they were considered a bourgeois10 and prosecuted or sent to jail. The decreasin...

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... 1958 Mao made this collectivisation process an essential part of the GLF. Mao seemed to have organised the communes effectively, he divided China's agricultural land into 70,000 communes, each commune made up from 750,000 brigades and each brigade containing roughly 200 households, the whole system was under control of the PRC's central government and everything was to be dictated ... by the government, there was no private farming and peasants needed internal passports to pass from one commune to another. John King Fairbank, the US expert on modern China remarked a contradiction on the...

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... was a movement which should have seen a significant growth in agricultural and industrial production (Teacher source, Unknown #1). The program established large agricultural communes where people, as many as 75,000 in a commune, were required to grow crops (Biograhy.com, 2014). Eventually, the entire countryside was organized into these communes and their aim was to develop a true communist system, but Mao's principal goal ... ...

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... political and commercial divisions between the three China's are rapidly disappearing. The border between China and Hong Kong has started to slowly to remove itself; people on either side are starting to come together. Economic Conditions in Mainland China China is increasing at a steady speed as it continues to sustain rapid economic growth. China's average annual GNP growth rate of 10 ... percent during Deng Xiaoping's (famous Chinese Government) reform program starting in 1978 "outstripped" almost every other country in the world. In 1993, China "s GNP grew by 10 percent, industrial ...

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... political and commercial divisions between the three China's are rapidly disappearing. The border between China and Hong Kong has started to slowly to remove itself; people on either side are starting to come together. Economic Conditions in Mainland China China is increasing at a steady speed as it continues to sustain rapid economic growth. China's average annual GNP growth rate of 10 ... percent during Deng Xiaoping's (famous Chinese Government) reform program starting in 1978 "outstripped" almost every other country in the world. In 1993, China "s GNP grew by 10 percent, industrial ...

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... policy ague that couples are choosing to have no children instead of one, which will in turn harm the national economy. The children of this one-child policy era are starting to reach adulthood and they do not really have a sense of family (Beech). Statistics show that more and more people are even getting to the point of sterilization. Li Yinhe ... ...

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... people. Critics argue that economic development inevitably leads to democratization. Antonio Chiang, for example, states that: This public confidence is very important. It means that people on the mainland are starting to challenge authority, so that the party loses prestige, loses control. This cultural change, this economic base, is very important .the authoritarianism gradually rots, from the inside out. It erodes ... ...

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... people. Critics argue that economic development inevitably leads to democratization. Antonio Chiang, for example, states that: This public confidence is very important. It means that people on the mainland are starting to challenge authority, so that the party loses prestige, loses control. This cultural change, this economic base, is very important .the authoritarianism gradually rots, from the inside out. It erodes ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate