... for consolidation but were prepared for either side to emerge victorious. In 1923, the KMT and CCP announced the establishment of the First United Front between the two parties. In 1925, Sun died without a clear successor. Two key figures arose as possible heirs, Chiang Kai-shek and ... to Nanjing. Chiang clearly had national ambitions, wanting to lead a united China. Sensing this, both Wang and the CCP bolted from the United Front government. Chiang's army delt with both rebellions promptly, smashing Wang's forces at Wuhan and (with the help of organized crime) massacring CCP and ... ...

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... 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, the urban petty bourgeoisie, and national bourgeoisie. Mao also intended to embrace alliances with the Soviet Union in order to help China prosper. In 1935, he initiated ... while he simultaneously committed such irreparable political mistakes as outlawing innocuous liberal movements, thereby driving their members into the Communist ranks. The Communists then in...

• Word Count: 4353
• Approx Pages: 17
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... made with the Viet Minh and the way was open for large scale support. In 1950, the war moved from the passive to the active stage. French troops were concentrated in fortresses in North Vietnam fighting a static war. During this year the Viet Minh swept along the frontier road with ... Vinh Yen, a "set-piece" battle fought along conventional lines that resulted in a decisive French victory. This forced the Viet Minh to revert to a passive stage of revolutionary warfare and gave the French a false sense of security that the Viet Minh could never match them in a "set-piece" battle. The Viet...

• Word Count: 3628
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... that encourages millionaires to join its ranks, and which espouses a market economy in a blend that no one quite knows what to call. At each stage in this cavalcade of "Chinas," one's view of Chinese law was deeply colored by the features of the evolving political landscape as it stood ... control of the local warlord. In this sense the period is quite straightforward. Though there was a long list of figures who strutted across the stage of the Chinese government in this period, the same mix of problems that had plagued China continued to oppress it and fragmentation grew. To borrow Eri...

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... often pray to their ancestors to bring them good fortune. Families often visit the parents of the father to honor their elders. Children often show their respect by kneeling in front of their elders, in return they get red envelopes with money to spend as they wish. It is customary that on the second day married women visit their parents, they ... afternoon celebration. The fifth day is known as the 'breaking the five', referring to the birthday of the Gods of the five directions. Red cloths are placed on the front of businesses as an offer as they reopen. On the sixth day the lion...

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• Grade Level: High School

... ownership) has been a history of class struggles, contests between exploiting and exploited, ruling and oppressed classes; that the history of these class struggles forms a series of evolutions in which, nowadays, a stage has been reached where the exploited and oppressed class-the proletariat-cannot attain its emancipation from the sway of the exploiting and ruling class-the bourgeoisie-without, at the same ... , regardless of political differences. Again, a parallel between the proletariat and the environment can be seen in the manifesto when it says: "they [the struggles] point out an...

• Word Count: 3463
• Approx Pages: 14
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• Grade Level: Graduate