... "Chinese" Dynasty that the Qing had supplanted. It is hardly surprising that these resentments sharpened when things grew rocky in the nineteenth century. Nineteenth century challenges to Qing hegemony were mounted by groups like the Taiping 太平. The Taipings were a revolutionary group with a highly eccentric blend of religious ... for one part of the World's geo-political drama. Two examples make the point. The British fought two wars in the mid-nineteenth century to win the right to sell opium in China. While the Chinese government forbade the use of opium and generally wished to re...

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... rites. (Nish 44) As Buddhism increased in popularity, the Buddhist monasteries became wealthy and powerful forces in the country. In the late 16th century, Nobunaga, one of the early Japanese warlords, attacked the Buddhist monasteries and destroyed Buddhism as a political force, though not as a religion. ... Mongol invasion, developed ceramics and architecture and rebuilt the Great Wall, but remained somewhat isolated from the western world. Beginning in the 16th century, Europeans began arriving to trade with the Chinese, and Christian missionaries began arriving in China. The Jesuit...

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... ) of which the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) took advantage. However in addition to that, there were also significant factors such as the poor conditions during the beginning of the twentieth century in the Republic of China and the Japanese War (1937 - 1945), that led to the insufficiency and weakness of the GMD (Chinese Democratic Party) during the Civil War. Their leader ... 's rule was based on dynasties, which followed Confucian theories. The Chinese thought of their nation as the center of the world, disclaiming any interest in the west. Already during the nineteenth century, China ...

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... Communist Party) took advantage. However in addition to this, there were also significant factors such as the conditions during the beginning of the twentieth century complications in the republic China and the Japanese War (1937-45), that led to the vulnerability and insufficiency of the GMD during the Civil ... then already united nation, the Peoples Republic of China. The discontent in China was rooted in problems, which arose during the early twentieth century. In addition to this the CCP was able to use the situation in order to give people hope as well as help, which ... of the wo...

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... 1911. 1) When the People's Republic was proclaimed in 1949 in Peking, the traditional "northern capital,"" the Communists inherited a country in complete disarray. Since the turn of the century, China had been accosted by revolution and internecine conflict, warlordism, foreign invasion, and chronic calamities like drought, flood and famine. Excessive inflation during the last days of Nationalist rule ... by a flow of silver from the West. Extreme weather conditions and inadequate granary administration induced malnourishment and a vulnerability to pestilence among rural populations. Clea...

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