... for Chinese people. As freedom increased within the economic sector, some Chinese citizens began to call for political change to compliment the increased economic openness. Prior to the spring of 1989, a myriad of economic, political and social problems pervaded Chinese society. The economic reforms that Deng Xiaoping initiated, at first boosted the Chinese economy and then sent it into massive disarray causing ... leader, soon turned into a massive student movement calling for political reform. Although the international arena christened the Tiananmen Square student protest during the s...

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... 1928 it controlled the entire country and undertook a reform programme. The years from 1928 to 1937 are known as the Nationalist era in Chinese history. Chiang had received his military training in Moscow and the Communists were initially his allies, but he later decided to purge them from his ... where they established a base. Two years later, Japan invaded China forcing the Kuomintang and the Communists into an uneasy alliance. At the end of the war against Japan in 1945 the alliance collapsed into civil war. Mao had carefully nurtured his support among the nation's peasants, believing ...

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... only inhumane but will ultimately lead to more problems rather than solutions in the future for China. In order to clearly see these problematic facets, one must first examine the history of China and its birth control policies from the time at which it became a significant issue right up until the present, while also predicting what the future might entail. Recently, a ... new law was imposed that affects this policy greatly, but it cannot be scrutinized until first examining the history behind it. For hundreds upon hundreds of years, the country of China has dominated other countries ...

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... to import plants and expand heavy industry could not be sustained" (Shirk 35). Deng took advantage of this economic crisis to discredit Hua and aim for leadership of the party. "Reform policies became Deng's platform against Hua for post-Mao leadership" (Shirk 36). Given this history of economic reform, it is evident that "under the present system economic questions are necessarily political questions" ( ... Dorn 43). Once Deng and his faction had prevailed, it was necessary for some sort of economic reform to evolve. The initial form the new economy took was not a radical one ... CCP ha...

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... a lecture series in 1989 and later had it published in this form. He discusses China and Japan in their international roles and relations from the 1880's to relative present, dividing the periods into "power," "culture," and "economics." I will begin by presenting a brief summary of the book, followed by ... how to properly mobilize an army, as opposed to the scholar-gentry who were charged with the military in China. Japan also began to think of external threats, specifically, a hypothetical Russian war (which eventually became reality) which enabled the Japanese to solidify a central a...

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