... was in the late 1930's when Japanese tried to occupy China. After Japan surrendered in 1945, the end of the Second World War, the civil war accelerated. The climax was reached in 1949, when the leaders of Kuomitang were deported and communists established the People's Republic of China. 1.3 The People's Republic of China Many reforms were made right after the People ... 's Republic of China was established. The legislation was renewed to correspond Communist party's program. Organisations of local and state government were restructured. Economic life confronted also huge changes such as ...

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... developed a New Culture movement, which was pro democracy and education, but rejected Confucianism and "the old ways." Furthermore, they declined the democratic systems of Great Britain and France(1). Chinese Communist Party (CCP) A rebellion, called May 4th Movement took place, demanding a more Socialist system. At this stage, the Soviet regimes and their withdrawal from the war started to appear to the Chinese ... organized his own nationalist government at Nanjing, in 1928. He was unable to unify China because of his desire to alienate the CCP and the peasants. Democracy, which he ne...

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... will move into a capitalist front only to prosper. An Inflationary crisis within two years will test the government's reformist mettle: The 14th Communist Party Congress, set the official seal on the fourth wave of economic reform. Market Splintering: l feel that China should allow labour to become freer ... of foreign investment from countries, especially japan, which will hit poor parts of China. China will also be joining GATT soon, and have reached an market-opening agreement with the US in October. I believe that China should allow as much foreign investment as possible because it ...

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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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... Engels. By the summer of 1920 he considered himself a Marxist; a year later he was one of the twelve men to found the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai. In 1927, Mao returned to Hunan and launched a revolt known as the Autumn Harvest Uprising with. Joining this revolt were mostly peasants. ... March. Mao was named head of the Central Committee and his followers replaced most of the other men. On October 25, 1935, The Red Army reached its goal, the Shensi Province far in the northwest of China. In Shensi, they set up their headquarters and founded a new soviet. (Goldston, ... and stren...

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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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... there were over 200 Communists in the State Department (Feuerlicht, 55). And some 57 cases of people who fall into the category of card - carrying Communists, loyalist of the Communist Party, or risks to the nation (Divine, 265). Despite the issue of Communists in America there was a bigger issue, Communist spies. Though the truth of the matter is that all countries ... fall of McCarthy people and countries still spy on each other. Only now the spying has passed the level it was at during the McCarthy years (Feuerlicht, 152). The spying reached its peak when in 1967 it was ordered by pr...

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... idea for private enterprises proved to be a good one. The annual gross domestic product (GDP) has grown over the years to over 544.6 billion dollars by the early 1990s. Agriculture reached even the rural areas. The industrial output through manufacturing, mining, electricity generation and building and construction grew at an amazing rate. (Microsoft Encarta). Prior to WWII the area known as ... peasant farmers to pay their rents. The taxes levied against them by the imperial government caused very little profit to be made. It was not until 1949 when the Communist Party established a un...

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... having more children to help with the work and produce more. Lack of space in Urban area's induced pressure on couples not to have more children. A satisfying compromise was never reached between the two mitigating factors of urban and rural family needs. Thus, an ineffective initiative was implemented. Due to the ineffectiveness of the law, compliance became a problem, especially in the ... the patriarchal interests of the state. In each case there were women who attempted to challenge the privileged status of men. But then there were also women enlisted by the party-state to reorient ...

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