... were so intertwined throughout traditional China. The second article was named, "The Needham Puzzle: Why the Industrial Revolution Did Not Originate in China." Although most all factors that were present in the Industrial Revolution in England were seen in China, nothing of the sort took place in China during the 14th ... the adverse man-to-land ratio does not exist. Evidence shows that little demand for new technology cannot be a cause of why the Industrial Revolution did not occur in China. In order to understand the Needham Puzzle, the supply side of technology needs to be addressed. W...

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... proclaimed in 1949 in Peking, the traditional "northern capital,"" the Communists inherited a country in complete disarray. Since the turn of the century, China had been accosted by revolution and internecine conflict, warlordism, foreign invasion, and chronic calamities like drought, flood and famine. Excessive inflation during the last days of Nationalist rule had arrested commerce and destroyed ... peasants from the necessity of resorting to usurious loans, shows the inability of Chinese agriculture to provide capital for industrialization. Additionally, Imperialism was an impediment...

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... of China's leaders that economic reform was necessary. During his tenure as China's premier, Mao had Harris 3 encouraged social movements such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, had had as their basis of ideology such as serving the people and maintaining the class struggle. By 1978 "Chinese leaders were searching for a solution to serious economic problems produced ... 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...

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... tend to consider myself attached to or associated with is that of the "modified" hypothesis presented by Justin Yifu Lin in his article titled "The Needham Puzzle: Why the Industrial Revolution Did Not Originate in China". Lin's argument basically consists of three parts. The first part supports why China was "probably the most cosmopolitan, technologically advanced and economically powerful civilization ... in the world [by the fourteenth century]" (Lin, 270). He explains that economic and industrial growth is dependent on technological innovation which is in turn dependent on experime...

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... the nation, causing increasing discontent. Stalin also maintained his power throughout all of his economic policies, unlike Mao, who after the Great Leap Forward re-established himself through the Cultural Revolution. Despite this, Mao's economic policies were also successful. More than half of China became irrigated and the railway network virtually doubled in size. Mao's reforms also motivated peasants to ... work together and embody a Communist worker. This is in contrast to Stalin's reforms which produced "Stakhovanites"." Stalin and Mao's economic policies were motivated by a need ...

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... resulted from deregulation of prices and change in relative price ratios that created the need for reallocation of resources in order to correct the industrial structure inherited from centrally planned economy. The end of Cultural Revolution in China in 1976 revived the two competing forces of institutional centralization and accelerated growth, which in contrast requires decentralization (Riskin, 1987). ... made extraordinary efforts to build their socialist economies, but they experienced failure rather than success. China was impoverished by the Cultural Revolution, while the Vietnam...

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The Social Impact of the economic reforms in China. In 1978, under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping China embarked on an economic revolution. The excesses of the Cultural Revolution, the loss of a generation of intellectuals and the neglect of the economy in a bid to return to "pure socialism- through "ideological remolding- and "thought reform- left China's economy in ruins. ... Deng's main priority was to therefore reverse the effects of the Cultural Revolution , with emphasis on the economic sector even abandoning the centralized system in an attempt for immediate revival of the economy based...

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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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... would already have built trust and established relationships. POLITICAL CLIMATE The current political system in China is a one party system, Communist Party of China that won the "new democratic revolution" in 1949 and subsequently founded The People's Republic of China. The Community Party of China's victory meant that the party was the only ruling party of China, setting economic ... the Chinese government will continue to open up their markets for a variety of sectors, including the energy sector. In the mid 2000s, a global environmental movement began a major push to reduce industria...

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... due to the lack of transportation and communication means. With new technologies, means of transports became faster and cheaper in the 20th century like airlines, highways, railways, ports ). The container revolution in the 1960's is one of the main innovation in the transportation sector that considerably helped global trade to develop, as it provided the capabilities to support more complex and ... industrialized, will efficient transport means be as necessary as they are today. In conclusion, transport and communication means have always played a very important role in global trade, ...

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... were forced to pay an annual tribute as 'vassal states'. However, by the nineteenth century, the economic and military superiority of the West over China had become apparent. As the Industrial Revolution proceeded, particularly in Britain, western European powers sought raw materials and markets in China. When Western nations appeared in the Far East, China viewed them with disdain and mistrust: disdain ... society if they were going to survive. A belated attempt at reform finally came after 1901. However, these reforms came too late and in fact further undermined Manchu control. In 191...

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... path to socialism led to the tensions. One of the reasons behind the tensions is ideological. For example, the Chinese emphasis on the peasant revolution instead of following the Soviet emphasis on the urban working-class revolution was something that the Chinese could not change because they did not have an urban working-class. Thus, we see that ideological causes that the ... socialism. However, the Soviets viewed this plan with much suspicion and saw it as China wanting to veer away from the Soviet economic model of large scale, centrally directed, urban industrial production. Khrush...

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... . However, despite it role in cultural integration, it also leads to blending of cultures and the corrosion of unique cultural differences. Economic face in its major part involves financial and industrial dimensions. Globalisation increases substantially and creates new opportunities for the technologically advanced and developing nations. It has lead to a massive pull and fascination of foreign investors and foreign capital. This ... has allowed its firms to break up the production process into distinct steps and to produce goods in whatever location. This has enabled them to minimize ...

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... banks and post offices and regularizing commercial laws. Government could even fund trade and railroads which led to agricultural output. Thus, by 1900 Japanese economy was fully launched in an industrial revolution. There were clearly evident similarities and differences between China and Japan's role of the state in each of their economic developments....

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... 's uneducated decisions. According to Josh Brooman's 'China since 1900', Industry was the main focus of the GLF as Mao's plan was to make China one of the world's leading industrial nations. Mao thought that by simply producing masses of steel China would be able to solve its economic problems, therefore he wanted as much steel produced as fast as possible ... , having established its legitimacy by freeing the peasants from landlordism The state had become the ultimate landlord.' Despite the fact that Mao was a peasant and that he led the peasant revolution his attitude towards peasa...

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... countries being part of the group of 77+. Carbon monoxide in the atmosphere has increased to 383 parts per million (ppm) from about 280 ppm at the start of the industrial revolution, a 37 percent increase (Umair, 2012). According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), it is estimated that China and India will account for 45 percent of global energy demand growth by ... ...

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... prosperity in the end."" Deng Xiaoping, 1987 The building of the "market-socialist economy- in China, is understood to be one of many great Chinese experiments, a continuation of the "permanent revolution- that Mao upheld. The financial fragilities created by a growing public debt (particularly when one includes the debt owed to state-owned banks by state-owned enterprises), rising unemployment, and the ... controlling the number of state-owned enterprises destroyed by market economy implementations, a complete release of such enterprises from any government support or authority might r...

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... little, or in its pure form no government intervention in economic affairs. This type of system advocated by Adam Smith was practiced by both British and American governments during the industrial revolution and led to productive but unstable economies consisting of booms and recessions. Many entrepreneurs became very rich but the number of wealthy people was small when compared to the number ... ...

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... individuals. Likewise Xiaoping continued to pursue the quota policy in order to gather enough food for the ever increasing population of China. Both Zedong and Xiaoping stressed the development of industrial society in order to catch up with other wealthy nations. During the 1950's Zedong asked U.S.S.R. for aid to industrialize China. Although Zedong brought in outside assistance, it was from a Communist ... could grow to become a serious threat to the state. He needed to have absolute control over China in order to fulfill his dreams of establishing absolute communism. During the Cultu...

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