... China, the current official ideology of communism is quickly losing its credit in the public, one may expect possible political and ideolocial reforms in the country. However the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) never clearly indicates that if it intends to loosen control for the potential reforms. In this essay, I will first discuss the relevance of a reform that is pressed by the ... of a new legitimate ideology, by analyzing the feasibility of ideological alternatives. Possibility of a Pressed Reform To examine the possibility of a reform that is pressed by the people upon the cur...

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... ceased and transportation was barely functional. All the hardships left citizens suffering from famines. To kickstart the growth of China, the Communist Party, and its delegates were put into most key government and military official positions. The new laws created in China were headed by its ruler. The ... at their discretion. They controlled all industrial production, agriculture and more. And the biggest problem is that there was no one that could stop the Communist Party (The Rise). The fact that Mao Zedong and the government could control everything without any question leads to the...

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... Chiang Kai-Shek can be considered solely responsible for the failure of the KMT to maintain control of China? He manage to practically exterminate the communist during the long march, However later when he should have been rallying the support of the Chinese Peasant and working to improve China's economic conditions ... was short lived however, and so was he because Yuan died in 1916. From 1916-1927 various warlords rulled China. In 1921 the CCP Chinese Communist Party was formed and soon after merged with the Kuomintang as the first United front. In 1925 Sun Yat-Sen died and leadership ...

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... time in Changsha's library where he studied economics and the writings of a revolutionary from the west, Karl Marx's and Communism. There he met other intellectuals of radical communist thought who helped form the Chinese Communist Party. On May 4, 1918 there was a demonstration of people against the western form of government, and for the new radical Marxist Communism. Later referred to as the May ... fourth incident it set the ball rolling for Mao and the CCP. Mao soon became a full time Party worker. He wrote several reports on Communism. Most of all he ... time in Changsha's librar...

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... . During this time some people turned towards the ideas of Marx and Lenin. They believed themselves that they could also have a strong, organized party that would be able to transform China into a great powerful nation. Their beliefs helped them create a Chinese Communist party in 1920. Between the 1920's and the 1930's, Chinese citizens were fighting over having China become nationalist or ... communist. The nationalist leaders saw the communist parties as a threat. Eventually, ruler Jiang Jieshi crushed all communist parties and anyone that supported communism. A communist who had esca...

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Mao Tse-Tung was a principal Chinese Marxist theorist, a soldier and a statesman who commanded China's communist revolution. He was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party from 1935; he was chairman of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death on 1959 ... in the republican army while regularly studying alone in the provincial library. He established connection with intellectual radicals who later figured prominently in the Communist Party of China (CPC). He later returned to Hunan where he engaged in militant political activity, while living as a primary-school principal Mao ....

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... many historic events of these nations. An example include China's Great Leap Forward (1958-1961), led by the Communist Party of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of this economic and social campaign to rapidly transform the country's agrarian economy into a communist society through immense industrialization8 agriculture and collectivization9. Private ownerships were abolished, and agricultural collectives were created. People gave ... further developed in many countries. For example, China's leader Mao begins to adapt and carries out a series of social, economical and political movements ...

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... or not. I have divided my presentation into three parts. First I would like to give you an overview of the situation in China during the communist and the Mao period. Then, I will move on to the opening of the Chinese market since 1978. Finally, we will compare the Chinese case ... brief description of the future of China. 1. CHINA OF MAO (1949 - 1976) AND DEMAOISATION Let's begin with A) The setting-up of the classical communist from 1949 to 1955 Military forces occupied two thirds of China in 1949. Politic institutions were created based upon the Soviet model. In February 1950, a ... p...

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... quot; and from that time one, he considered himself a Marxist (Meisner, M. 2007). As a Marxist, Mao believed in Karl Marx's theories published in The Communist Manifesto (1848), and from the beginning of Mao's dictatorship in 1921, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials applied Mao's theories that people's lives should be controlled by the government, accomplishing this through fear and terror campaigns (Biography.com, 2014 ... of the CCP, enduring rivalries, failures and hardships all to maintain his totalitarian control over China's people for just over 50 years. During his reign of p...

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... and administered has gone through an intensive transformation. The days when Marxism and Socialism supposedly provided guidelines for Chinese economic policies have passed. Now the government exists as a quasi-communist authoritarian regime supported by a market economy. Economic progress is commonly associated with democratization, and in many cases this theory holds true. Taiwan is the exemplary East Asian model ... over to government officials in the wake of Deng's reforms. Although the government played a smaller role in the management of the nation's economy, " the Leninist-style sy...

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... and administered has gone through an intensive transformation. The days when Marxism and Socialism supposedly provided guidelines for Chinese economic policies have passed. Now the government exists as a quasi-communist authoritarian regime supported by a market economy. Economic progress is commonly associated with democratization, and in many cases this theory holds true. Taiwan is the exemplary East Asian model ... over to government officials in the wake of Deng's reforms. Although the government played a smaller role in the management of the nation's economy, " the Leninist-style sy...

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... be was that of the Soviet Union and China. Although their governmental structures were similar in design, their own particular views on the Communist idea, among other things, differed greatly. Sino-Soviet History The winds of change were blowing over Eastern Europe and China towards the end ... Nevertheless, the Guomindang were able to seize power in 1919 and Chiang Kai-shek was installed as the new leader of China. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was then incorporated into the Guomindang, in order to consolidate power within the country (4). The inherent ideological differences and p...

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... of changes. China started off being run by Warlords who were overthrown by the Kuomintang in 1913. In 1921, the Communist party was formed and Civil war broke out between the Kuomintang and the Communist. This lasted right up to 1949. China had also been through a war with the Japanese, several famines, and ... a constant battle against inflation. When the Communist Party came to power, it seemed to be everybody's dream come true. They bought such promises, that everyone was certain they were going to ... what a bad idea it was and stopped, but it was too late. Over five million people...

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... On 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 for the future of Taiwan, what lies in store for China? ... dismal past of democratic attempts? The answer, since the late 1970s, has been internal reform. Deng Xiaoping became the leader of the Chinese Communist Party in 1978, and immediately began the task of reforming an ailing super-nation so that it could rise to its proper lev...

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... businessperson is therefore willing to prepare and persevere on profit in the China Triangle (This includes Hong Kong, Taiwan and China). The term "Greater China" was termed by former Communist Party Secretary, Zhao Ziyang, as reunified China that included Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China. It merged into one independent called the "MegaChina". In 1997, Hong Kong and Mainland ... along with the introduction of new technologies (hardware and software) could increase productivity into the enterprise environment. At the third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Chin...

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... businessperson is therefore willing to prepare and persevere on profit in the China Triangle (This includes Hong Kong, Taiwan and China). The term "Greater China" was termed by former Communist Party Secretary, Zhao Ziyang, as reunified China that included Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China. It merged into one independent called the "MegaChina". In 1997, Hong Kong and Mainland ... along with the introduction of new technologies (hardware and software) could increase productivity into the enterprise environment. At the third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Chin...

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... a biased filter as Gurley objectively analyzes Mao's policies. Gurley had said that he wanted to produce a book that carefully weighed the aspects of a Communist economy rather than one that "promoted capitalism."(pg. 2). Gurley does an excellent job of breaking down China's economy. Also, what enhances the credibility ... was a long course of confession, further confession, interrogation and the criticism and study of the works of Marx, Mao Tse Tung and other Communist writers designed to "alter completely the class standing, outlook, and educational influence to which the individual in...

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... their commanders. Some times it was to gather scraps of iron, sometimes it was to gather things from homes that were deemed anti-party, such as western books, pictures, etc. basically anything that had any association with western thought. In some instances it was shown that ... Guard, you were given assignments. These assignments included but were not limited to producing and hanging propaganda or criticism posters, collecting anti government, anti communist materials such as books and pictures, painting the words of Chairman Mao on walls, finding suspected "Capitalist Roaders" and brin...

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... continuos military disasters, lack of weapons and the large amount of Red Army Soldiers" that died. The reasons for this was political victory is because Mao Zedong became the Chinese Communist Party Leader, all peasants after the long march favoured Communism and the news of Communism was spread throughout China. The Long March started after Chiang Kaishek launched his fifth and biggest ... soldiers of the red army went out on retreat, which was planned by the trio of Bo Gu, Zhou Enlai and Otto Braun. The idea was to withdraw to the communist base on the Hunan-Hubei border where the se...

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... up free trade affected China inadequately, leading China into chaos, such as the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. There is no determined reason why Mao Zedong, then Chairman of the Communist Party and the principal leader of China, unleashed millions of youths, soldiers and later adults, male and female against the historical, educational, artistic, musical, and cultural institutions and the people of ... the economist, students, and scholars in newspapers and discussion groups of what was wrong with this system. In the beginning of 1989, just before the death of Hu YaoBang, then Part...

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... make sure that it is on the self of everyone's library! Wait, no, no I won't. Basically, this is a story of a young girl growing up in Communist China, facing all of the downfalls of the political party, and ending up being criticized by everyone just because of her family's political background. Ji-Li, our protagonist, explains all that went on in great detail ... ...

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