... an entire civilization and culture. In fact, many attempts were made throughout the 1900's for reformed "family planning", which aimed at decreasing the average household size through only planned births. Mao Zedong, the Communist reformer of the state of China, the "people's" leader, first expressed his thoughts and concerns on population in 1949; "Even if China's population multiplies many times, she is ... fully capable of finding a solution, the solution is production." (Xizhe, 17) Mao Zedong's views were certainly embraced as he encouraged the population to have many children to ma...

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... role as a rogue nation of Maoist political zealots who sought total isolation from the developed nations of the international community. In the post-Mao years, China quickly became a reformist socialist society that waivered between ideology and pragmatism. That quickly led to a commitment to economic development under ... . In a very important way these goals could only be embodied in the person of the heroic leader of the Communist Party, Mao Zedong 毛澤東. We have never come to understand the combination of ability, charisma, fate and ambition that allows the 'great leader' .....

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... is an enigmatic country by today's standards concerning economic values and political ideals. The "communist" government that Mao Zedong brutally sculpted and administered has gone through an intensive transformation. The days when Marxism and Socialism supposedly provided ... past twenty years, its government has not made any significant progress towards democracy. The Chinese economy stagnated during the social-oriented rule of Mao in the 1950's. Instead of focusing on the modernization of the country's agricultural-based economy, China's leader intended to install the many ... theorie...

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... is an enigmatic country by today's standards concerning economic values and political ideals. The "communist" government that Mao Zedong brutally sculpted and administered has gone through an intensive transformation. The days when Marxism and Socialism supposedly provided ... past twenty years, its government has not made any significant progress towards democracy. The Chinese economy stagnated during the social-oriented rule of Mao in the 1950's. Instead of focusing on the modernization of the country's agricultural-based economy, China's leader intended to install the many ... theorie...

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... party, shortly after the Treaty of Versailles in 1920. The two factions held civil war for more than 20 years before the CCP won control of China under Mao Zedong. During the Rule of Mao the government enforced many policies favoring socialist and communist policies, such as: Cultural Revolution and the Five-Year Plan, in which the government tried to equalize the social ... equality and contempt against the west. During the latter half of the 20th century Deng Xiaoping emerged as the new leader of China, and instituted many policies contrasting his predecessor Mao Zedong. Deng Xiaoping...

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... 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 escaped Jieshi's brutal attack was Mao ZeDong. He believed the way to power was through the peasants and not through the wealthy. At this, time Communist parties began to redistribute already owned landed to peasants. The Communists ... had occurred was China becoming a Communist country. After years of fight over nationalism and communism, China was united under Communist rule. This nation faced many challenges ...

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... for nearly thirty years made it exceedingly difficult to gather knowledge of the country's population. Under the political control of Mao Zedong, there was no second-guessing his stand on population; he felt that population control was a western idea. It wasn't until Mao's death when China was able to address its population problem. In 1978, it was estimated that China's population was roughly ... ...

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... been a controversial issue for over 25 years and is still one today. China has always had a problem with over-population. The problem of a growing population is dated back to the Mao Zedong era when the population was just over 602 million people. He believed that if there were more people, then there would be more workers. The Chinese government noticed the problem ... ...

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... been a controversial issue for over 25 years and is still one today. China has always had a problem with over-population. The problem of a growing population is dated back to the Mao Zedong era when the population was just over 602 million people. He believed that if there were more people, then there would be more workers. The Chinese government noticed the problem ... ...

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... the Universe" thus holding special powers. From, the beginning, Falun Gong was considered an illegal organization and the Chinese Government tolerated it and tried to control it with subtle tactics. Mao Zedong, founder of the Communist party, banned Qigong for it's superstitious and unscientific nature. After his death, the government tolerated it, though laws existed under which practitioners could still be persecuted ... ...

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... my conclusions. rom the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1950 to the early 1970's, the governmental policy was one that favored a fast growing population. China's former leader, Mao Zedong, believed "that a large and impoverished population was an asset for national development" (Aird 229). Instead of focusing on the population as the source of growth, China's following leader Deng Xiaoping ... ...

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... Communist Party of China). The Communist Party of China (CPC) took power in Beijing and the KMD leadership fled to the island of Taiwan. The Chinese leadership, and most prominently Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Liu Shaoqi, Chen Yun, and Chu Teh ("father" of the People's Liberation Army), consolidated power quickly and moved to gain the confidence of the Chinese population, particularly by ... ...

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