... a Pressed Reform To examine the possibility of a reform that is pressed by the people upon the current communist government of China, we must first analyze the extent of political awareness of Chinese people. First we should not overlook the fact that the majority of Chinese population, especially the peasant and the working class, are being rather politically indifferent. Ironically, due to their sheer ... CCP had been proven effective in controlling the influence of the protests and intimidating further dissentions. Therefore, the people in China are unlikely to push the government in...

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STUDIES OF CHANGE: The Chinese Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution in China was the result of years of discontent among China's people at their outdated government and society, but what were the efficacious, particular motives and conditions for cultural revolutionary Mao Tse-Tung to bring about such major reforms? China; Asia's leading economic power and its ... professor and director of Asia Pacific Studies at the York University in Toronto, identifies that "Mao was born during a time of great social and cultural change," in which Chinese scholars, government officials, and the p...

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... military and the economy that brought on the rebellion, not the individual Sun Yat Sen. It was simply the fact that a republican form of government developed with Sun as it's provincial president that he gained his status from the revolt. "Since 1908 the Tongmenghui had been bitterly divided and ... push for a revolt against dynastic rule it is doubtful whether the revolution would have occurred as it did. His Three Principles ideology informed the Chinese people that there was a possibility for a better future for China. Although there was the conflict in his revolutionary group and he...

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China has been a remarkably successful economy since its adaptation of market-oriented reforms in 1978. The country's real GDP growth has averaged about 9% each year from 1979 to the present (Naughton, 1995). Vietnam has also gone through a terrific economic development after the country's transition process from centrally-planned economy to a market economy and it also gone from a poor to a middle-income country in just 20 years. Over the past five decades, East Asia has emerged as a region with several spectacular stories (i.e. Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan) of catch-up development. Both Chin...

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... British came with ships full of opium. The Chinese population became fixated on opium, and silver began to vanish in China in exchange for the new drug. This vast exchange had begun to disrupt the Chinese economy. The imperialism that the British were bringing on the Chinese people made their economy decline. The Chinese government inevitably stepped up and took control by outlawing ... opium and executing anyone marketing this drug. The government also demanded Britain to stop trading the drug, but the British refused and ... business class emerged with a fresh urban working class. They...

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... publication website cancellations, and even imprisonment for journalists and internet bloggers. Google was a website that battled internet censorship with the Chinese government. The government is forcing the general Chinese public to accept censorship, and it is obvious that the Chinese are eager to find out information. Fortunately, media coverage in China is more diverse than ever before because of their growing ... censorship guidelines are so vague, authorities can deem just about anything as harmful to their economic and political interests. The first white paper on the internet was...

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... markets, and thus the country's economy was doomed to falter from the outset. Another possible conclusion that can be derived from the relationship between Chinese communism and the country's dormant economy is that Mao failed to administer government policies wisely. In effect it was not communism that derailed China's economy, but rather the errors of an individual in a position of power. Mao ... principles, was carefully maintained."6 As China's leader, Deng was unwilling to allow economic development translate into political freedom. Any reform that challenged one-party rule could b...

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... markets, and thus the country's economy was doomed to falter from the outset. Another possible conclusion that can be derived from the relationship between Chinese communism and the country's dormant economy is that Mao failed to administer government policies wisely. In effect it was not communism that derailed China's economy, but rather the errors of an individual in a position of power. Mao ... principles, was carefully maintained."6 As China's leader, Deng was unwilling to allow economic development translate into political freedom. Any reform that challenged one-party rule could b...

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... the prospect of the internal market. In order to receive all the foreign capitals, China has been forced to reform her financial and monetary systems. The Chinese government created a Federal Bank and Chinese discovered for the first time Chinese shares and bonds. Her main partners are Japan, in spite of the disagreement between the two countries, Taiwan, the USA, and then the European Union ... the country. C) The bad sides of the Growth a) The corruption The growth of prosperity leads to a growth of corruption. In China to commit a robbery is an act of corruption. The Chinese governme...

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... in the Five-Year Plan, aimed at developing economic growth and land reform (Cairns). In effort to ameliorate the land ownership, the government murdered millions of landlords in effort to redistribute farmland for the peasants control. Killing millions is no justification for growing a country. ... action, Mao implemented the Anti-Rightist Movement (Xiang). This action effectively suppressed all opposition when he implemented the communes. Mao and his government essentially controlled every aspect of a citizen's life, limiting their potential. Even after all the work Mao did with the Gr...

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... stating that they hold up to communist values, but in truth, they don't. China has a capitalistic economy and the only part of the country that remains communist is the government. The Chinese people have different wages, and no one obtains similar things in China. They are as unequal as people were in the 1700's. Businesses are not owned by the country, and ... . The economy is so profoundly great, as it is capitalistic, which gives them enough profit to fund their country. The reason China should switch over to Capitalism is because the Chinese people would prefer capitalism. They have...

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... book Son of the Revolution, by Liang Heng. This book is an autobiography, and really gave a much better description of the hardships faced by the Chinese people during the rise of Communism, the Cultural Revolution, and during Post Cultural Revolution times. It was one thing to hear in class how, " ... . In the movie we watched in class, it was easy to see that the Red Guard were a group of lackies working for the Chinese government. They carried out the wishes of their commanders. Some times it was to gather scraps of iron, sometimes it was to gather things from ... on walls, finding su...

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... on rival countries for military purposes. Espionage can be used in business, military, economic or political decisions however; it is commonly employed government for defensive tactics. Espionage or spying is illegal in many nations however, it gains profits from agencies to protect the secrecy of information ... out history. The Bible's book of Joshua (The Old Testament) states that the leaders secretly sent out spies to reconnoiter a country. Also the Chinese Military theorist Sun Tzu's, who wrote a book The Art Of War written in 500 B.C, provides instruction for organizing an espiona...

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... specifically, a hypothetical Russian war (which eventually became reality) which enabled the Japanese to solidify a central army against a central external threat. The Chinese, however, with their focus on local disputes could mobilize provincial forces but not unite them. The first clash between China and Japan took place ... 7.7 million pounds from the Boxer Rebellion to establishing cultural projects in China. In 1923, Japan brought over hundreds, possibly thousands, of Chinese students to Japan to study. The remaining portion of the Boxer funds went to establish the Toyo Bunku Kenyuj...

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... theory, based on the Three People's Principles developed by San Min Chu I. These principles were nationalism, democracy, and the people's livelihood. Yat-sen believed that the Chinese reconstruction would follow a progression of stages: military government, tutelage under the Kuomintang, and popular sovereignty (Palmer 356). What Yat-sen didn't count on was Chiang Kai-Shek. Rusty Johnson provides the following summary: Chiang Kai ... army and returned to China where he participated in the 1911 revolution against the Manchus. Between 1913-1916, Kai-Shek helped attempt to overthrow Yuan Sh...

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... Since women wanted more equality, and equality is doled out from the hands of those in power,capitalism was examined. The economic issues of repressed Chinese women were focused on the Land Act and the Marriage Act of 1950. The Land reform succeeded in eliminating the extended family's material basis and hence ... successful and China has proven that they were only panaceas for the real issue. Materialistic approaches could not shadow the issue of the view in Chinese society of the role of women. In the struggle for equality, China did not go to the women to find what they believed to ....

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... pinkeye. TB was wide spread. There were men with open wounds that were still draining. All of them had lice." (8) The American 5 POW's in Chinese camps were not treated with such harshness. In some cases the soldiers were not even captured, they were only inspected and let free. "A group of Americans ... guarded was by a few guards in strategically placed areas. Soldiers also extremely exaggerated the number of enemy units approaching, describing regiments as divisions. Chinese tactics mad the United States forces think they were coming from all directions, they used bugles and whistles...

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The Dragons Village In Yuan-tsung Chen's novel, The Dragons Village, Chen elaborates on the events that occurred during the years of the Chinese Communist Revolution. The "Land Reform" and the distribution of the land brought hope to millions of Chinese peasants that have been fighting poverty and feudalism. Ling-Ling, the narrator of the novel is a seventeen- year old girl who has ... was involved. The American army was already in the North Korea and getting closer to the Chinese Border. Many Chinese were afraid that the radicals would take over and tighten business controls. Like Ling-Ling...

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... ). A State Planning Commission was formed which would direct industrial progress. The State Council was formed in 1954 and would become the main governing body of China. Mao successfully reorganized the Chinese government to insure that the quotas of the First Five Year Plan would be met. With this economic plan Mao was able to effectively turn a feudalistic society into a world power within ... Stanford University. Gurley takes the time to dictate China's economic situation and how Mao tried to solve it. He goes into detail about the "five developments" that Mao initiated: the governmen...

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... 1) Dahl defines "Democracy " as a political system which has the characteristics of being completely or almost completely responsive to all its citizens. (Dahl (1971) Page 2) Since it is almost impossible for a government to be responsive to all of its citizens, Dahl calls our everyday conception of democracy Polyarchy. So, polyarchies "are regimes that have been substantially popularized and liberalized, one which is ... of over 2,000 years of centralized authoritarian rule has buttressed the current regime. In spite of China's economic liberalization, its Communist party-state retains t...

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... As time went on and other countries devolved technologically and there people enjoyed better living standards the people in Russia didn't. There economy stopped growing, government officials became highly corrupt and the populations living conditions didn't improve. When the arms race it didn't help matters any for Russia because they ... weapons. It was at its peak in 1948-53 with the Berlin blockade and airlift, the formation of NATO, the victory of the communists in the Chinese civil war, and the Korean War. Another intense stage occurred in 1958-62 with the Cuban missile crisis, whic...

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... , assembly, association, procession and demonstration (Chu). China has a tight grip on the media of the country, forcing all published information be vetted through the state (Chu). Many assumed the government's ability to crack down on dissent would be destroyed by the increased prominence of a dynamic and nearly infinite internet space. However, China has adapted its censorship policies to the internet ... in the digital realm (Chu). Meaning even with the advances in internet usage, China still maintains its dominance over its peoples freedom of speech. The Chinese people feel they have...

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On 1st October 1949, China became the People's Republic. It was the beginning of a revolution in Chinese society, government, law and economy. Over the last fifty years, China had been through a lot of changes. China started off being run by Warlords ... to join together to share machinery and animals. Also, to avoid another food shortage, the peasants had to sell about twenty percent of their produce to the government at a considerably low price. They had to pay tax on this, which stopped the peasants from thriving. This worked for about five years, and then ... rent. Even though the peasant...

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... in Asia where several countries had succumbed to communism despite America's best efforts to stop the widening and spreading of communism. In China, the Chinese Communist Party had won the elections in 1949 and was now in power. The Soviet's didn't pay much attention to China at that stage ... the Democratic Party of Chine but it was widely accepted that "intervention of such scope and magnitude would have been resented by the mass of the Chinese people, would have diametrically reversed our (USA's) historic policy, and would have been condemned by the American people. - In Korea there...

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... Australian attitudes so much as it reinforced them. For a long time there was a fear among the Australian people of Asian invasion, firstly from the Chinese when they flocked to Australia during the gold rush, and then from the Japanese after World War 1, nicknamed the "Yellow Peril". This attitude was ... the countries in them to protect any country that was also in them from a direct threat from communism. Another policy that the Australian government implemented was the "Forward Defence Policy" which was implemented so defence forces could move forward into Asia to stop any perceived ...

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