... capable of maintaining national unity and upholding China's place in the world. The Red Guards became the group representing the Cultural Revolution. They were also Mao's enforcers to make the changes he felt were necessary to meet his goals of the revolution. Red Guards too over educational institutions. They attacked anything they felt represented Soviet or Western capitalist countries. The smashed the ... other objects that offended them. Police and military were told not to interfere with the Red Guard's work. Organizations analogous to the Red Guards began to form among students an...

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... support, Mao started gain supports from peasants, women and other people. In 1949, Mao took over China and the Nationalist escape to Taiwan and set up a government in Taipei. This revolution was caused by many reasons. The Nationalist government seemed too dictatorial because some strict rules still remained. Women didn't really gain equality with men under the Nationalist government. The idea ... provided by Communist seemed to give poor people some advantages. It insisted to prove the right of women. People then favored in Communist and brought out the revolution. Mao gained power of ...

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... depression. This was the perfect chance for Mao Zedong to come to power and be that leader. For example, most farms were destroyed, industrial work had almost ceased and transportation was barely functional. All the hardships left citizens suffering from famines. To kickstart the growth of China, the ... , limiting their potential. Even after all the work Mao did with the Great Leap Forward, it failed miserably. Over 20 million people starved while industrial work had decreased; the opposite of what was projected. Mao Zedong wasn't prepared for this, and China was rapidly falling (The Ris...

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TASK 1 - Introduction Sport has developed over time from the original Olympics in Ancient Greece to the adaptation of the mob games in pre-industrial revolution Britain. These changes have come about from influences from the media, politics and other countries and cultures. The first section shows a comparison between a democratic country, Britain, and a communist country, ... With this came an emergence of regional and national sports organisations (see appendix 1). In Britain modern sports were developments from traditional sports played in villages and in schools after the industrial revol...

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... should act in the favor of the communist party as a whole, above personal advantages and interests. He created his own Marxist ideals based on revolution of the peasant class instead of the working class. He ensured the humanitarian treatment of the peasant class, the one thing that other previous ... failed to offer. This won the support of enormous amounts of people in tge peasantry. The 2 most important industrial and political contributions are: the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. The Great Leap Forward forced China to become industrilazed and proved that the nation ...

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... to many of China's leaders that economic reform was necessary. During his tenure as China's premier, Mao had encouraged social movements such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution which had had as their bases ideologies such as serving the people and maintaining the class struggle. By 1978 "Chinese leaders were searching for a solution to serious economic problems ... leader after Mao's death" (Shirk 35). Hua had demonstrated a desire to continue the ideologically based movements of Mao. Unfortunately, these movements had left China in a state where "agriculture was stagn...

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... to many of China's leaders that economic reform was necessary. During his tenure as China's premier, Mao had encouraged social movements such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution which had had as their bases ideologies such as serving the people and maintaining the class struggle. By 1978 "Chinese leaders were searching for a solution to serious economic problems ... leader after Mao's death" (Shirk 35). Hua had demonstrated a desire to continue the ideologically based movements of Mao. Unfortunately, these movements had left China in a state where "agriculture was stagn...

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... willingness to reconsider many of the policies that in the past were considered sacred principles of the socialist system. This to many Chinese people was known as China's Managerial Revolution. Beginning with the introduction of new management techniques in 4,000 Siuchuan enterprises in 1979 (also in a fewer number of enterprises in Yunnan and Anhui provinces), a new ... enterprises in the People's Republic, accounting for a 70 percent of total profit making among state enterprises. The Party Secretary Zhao Ziyang, outlined four major tasks for the reform of industrial enterprises. The f...

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... line. Had Mao not seeked more power and made orders he later regretted, then things may have been different. Landlords and Businessmen Before the Communist revolution, China had been a big place for businessmen and Landlords (until the early forties). Most of the major cities had been under the control of ... who were left were treated equally with the peasants. After the revolution, though all landlords had been demoted, the government did not get rid of all the businessmen. This was because, if China was to become the world's biggest industrial nation, they would need intellectuals t...

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... India. Cultural beliefs were a large impact of the imperialism of India and Latin America. There was also a large industrial impact on Africa, and china, which was a branch off of imperialism. This "new imperialism" was obvious between 1870 and 1914. The industrial revolution, which preceded this new imperialism, allowed stronger economics to arise. There was aggressive expansion during this time period, although it ... ships faster. The canal shortened sea route from New York to San Francisco by nearly 5,000 miles. It took nearly 10 years to finish a great success. There was and indust...

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... the British economy and to double the steel production and the harvests. But it was a big failure and cost the life of millions of people. In 1966 began the Cultural Revolution, organized by Mao against the members of the Party. The intellectuals and the artists are persecuted, deported and killed. It's the purge of the Party. The Maoism began to know ... . The Economy began to open up for foreigners. In March 1978, a new Constitution was adopted, which marked a rupture with Maoism. The purchases abroad were limited in order to reform the industrial economy. The prices of the agricultura...

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... casualties. But there was another instance of such disregard for human life on May 10th 1993 in a garment factory near the outskirts of Bangkok that Greider has dubbed "the worst industrial fire in the history of capitalism." (Greider p.337) With approximately 188 dead and 469 injured the factory was reduced to rubble. These violations of rights are more than just social ... for equality? The answer cannot lie in market forces, for it is the same unregulated market forces that cause these inequalities. Perhaps China and the Philippines needs a "moral and social revolution" as John Stuar...

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... were allowed to voice their opinion, with the help of many feminist movements that had taken place, and were allowed to get jobs. Since it was the time of the Industrial Revolution, women were able to get jobs in factories. Most higher status women didn't work, which meant that lower status and peasant women technically had more freedom than the elite and ... ...

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... Europe and China towards the end of World War I. Russia, who was involved in the war at the time, was forced to secede from the conflict in 1917. The Bolshevik Revolution, headed by Vladimir Lenin, had seized power after Czar Nicholas II abdicated on March 15, 1917 (2). He and his family were then executed. The long era of the Czar in ... fact was not lost on him (2). 2. A rift in the communist ideal existed between the two countries. China, being less technologically advanced than The Soviet Union, wished to increase domestic and industrial development faster than that of the Soviet Un...

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... 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 their advantage. They used this power to ... ...

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... that the economic gains from reform were barely sufficient to accommodate a population of one billion, given the natural population growth rate of 1.26 percent, much less provide a base for advanced industrial development. The One-Family, One-Child campaigns have therefore targeted women to limit their childbearing as a "patriotic duty". The family planning policy is implemented by local units of the W.F., barefoot ... person, a woman of benefit to the masses, a woman of communist morality (Anders,46). Women in China must still adhere to the traditional roles set about by their culture....

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... poorer rural areas in search of employment. Since 1949, the country has been under communist rule. There have been periods of great disorder, the worst of which was the Cultural Revolution, officially lasting from 1966-1970. Economic Facts China's economy has been improving rapidly since 1978 when China opened the doors to foreign investment and opened the economy to more private ... electricity networks. Rivers also play a major role in China, both for transportation and for irrigation. China is self-sufficient in food, has a wealth of mineral resources and an increasingly diversified ...

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... ideas were brought to China by students returning from North America and Europe. With the Manchus unwilling and unable to reform the government, the final response of the people was a revolution early in the twentieth century which brought about the fall of the Manchu dynasty and the creation of the Republic of China in 1911. During the corresponding time period, Japanese ... no reservations, took it and turned it to their own advantage. The Japanese were only giving a foretaste of that talent for adaptation which they were later to apply to Western industrial techniques.? (Nish 33) The...

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... . • In the 1950s & 60s, the CCP organised the training of "token" women in male dominated areas, such as flying aircraft and working on high tension power lines. The Cultural Revolution swept away the main organs of women's liberation, the Women's Federations. But during the 11 years of Wen Ge, women rose to a number of prominent positions through their political skills ... 235 members of the Presidium of the National people's congress. • As in all socialist countries it is a moot point in China whether the employment of women in low-paid industrial jobs is liberating or just a new f...

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