... is an analysis of the Cultural Revolution typical of the earlier historiographical phases. Along similar lines, and in the Marxist Tradition, Leftist writer and co-founder of Worker's World Party, Sam Marcy, interprets the Cultural Revolution as an inevitable social progression, a struggle against revisionism, and a triumph of Revolutionary progress over Political Reactionaries . His writings on the Cultural ... Revolution's instigation. By allowing for the partialities existing from the time a work was published, and those of the historian, and comparing a variety of sources, a happy me...

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... the abdication of the Qing emperor in return for his own appointment as president of the republic. Also in 1912, a new revolutionary party was formed. This party, called the Guomindang, believed in parliamentary democracy and the principle of electing the officials. Because Yuan disagreed with GMD's ideas, he ... pursued. This was because the landlords and the warlords were cruelly taking advantage of the people, making their life miserable. Democracy, which he never reached, was no issue for Chiang, due to lack of basics in such a political leadership. He never gave the people a right ...

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... leader. While working in the Peking University library under Li Dazhao, Mao became a member of the CCP. His political ideology was formed in the 1930's when he rose to party leadership. Mao believed that China's Marxist revolution would be victorious for the peasant class. Mao's political platform included rousing the nation's masses to create a united front including the peasantry ... and fortify China's southern, eastern, northern, and northwestern borders, he reinforced the Chinese examination system and consciencesally worked to appeal to the Chinese. With his attempts, Manchu rule re...

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... mainland, Taiwan began its ascent from tyranny to democracy. The factors which helped lead towards this democratization are very straightforward: First, Taiwan had reached a socioeconomic level that fulfilled the precondition for democracy; e.g., high per-capita income Second the lack of landlords and big capitalists and the cross ... March 18, 2000, Taiwan held its second free presidential elections, which resulted in Chen Shui-bian, a pro-independence candidate from the Democratic Progressive Party . This ended over fifty years of Nationalist rule in Taiwan. Although this is promising...

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... his agricultural policies, but also at his personal ideology and his economical policy. A very curious situation appeared that intellectuals inside and outside the party were sent to factories, communes, mines, and public works projects for manual labor in order to transform their stubbornly reactionary thinking. Instead, ... only five or ten years could be accomplished simply by the sustaining mobilization of masses. During 1950s and 1960s, the personality cult around Mao reached grotesque heights: "Mao was an infallible semi-divine being". Mao was compared to the sun and people believe...

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... government creates and develop concept of Big China. It is economical and political integration on the basis of the Asian Pacific region. Capital flows between China Hong Kong and Taiwan reached the amount of 650 billion. GDP of China is almost 10 trillions. (World Bank 2014) The main geopolitical advantage of China is humanitarian attitude in internal and external policy ... influence. Such attitude is based on the process of Chinese economical integration into the world market economy. New essence of Chinese geopolitics was created during XVII Congress of the Communist party. Firstly ne...

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... him according to his abilities, to him according to his needs." But this did not happen in the Soviet Union. Since Stalin was the sole party leader he controlled all means of production but he did not distribute the goods evenly. This led to widespread famine and starvation which was just one ... everyone was an angel, it must be expected that people will take advantage of the system. Another concern is the power a communist society allows one party complete control. It has been said that, "absolute power corrupts absolutely" and so far this has been evident in such nations as the Sovie...

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... 1965 the brothers Niccolò and Maffeo Polo, joined a diplomatic mission which was going to the court of, Kublai Khan, the Mongol ruler of China at the time. When they reached the court of Kublai Khan they were happy to see that he welcomed them nicely and expressed a great desire to learn more about Christianity. Since Khan had such an interest ... southern edge of the Takla Makan Desert to Lop Nur (in present-day Xinjiang), and across the Gobi Desert. In 1275 they reached the summer court of Kublai Khan at Shangdu. Marco's account records that the khan warmly welcomed the party and arr...

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... uncontrollably, politicians began to legitimize governmental control of the population. In a speech at the Third Session of the Fifth National People's Congress in 1980 the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Hau Guofeng presented China's predicament in the beginning of 1980. For a long period in the past, chiefly in the 1960's, we slackened our efforts with regard to family planning. As ... grow substantially in the coming years. Young people under 30 years of age account for about 65 per cent of the total population, or around 630 million. Some have already reached the age of fert...

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... to deal with the current problems involving Taiwan. The issue that I am mainly concerned with is the one-China principle which is set to have Taiwan ruled by the Communist party and no longer be a democratic entity and China would have sovereignty over Taiwan. Clinton had long urged that the USA continue to abandon talks with Taiwan and stuck to that ... Marxist type economy practices as those of the past. China was a favored nation and in that it has found much economic prosperity, the trade deficit in favor of China has reached a 4.3 billion-dollar mark. The United States is the third...

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... Chinese living in extreme poverty will rise to 90 million," Wen Jiabao, the new China's premier, said at a press conference in Beijing. Other important challenges include the legitimacy of the Party leadership and systematic corruption and social polarization, etc. President Hu Jintao understood these challenges very clearly. The theory of "three represents" is to be used to meet these challenges. The ... in the Asian-Pacific region, because US is the most important member of WTO and holds the biggest international market. Two-way trade between China and the United States has reached 92...

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