... . Under the KMT this stable situation was not achieved; if anything the decay in centralized control worsened. D. The Communist Achievement This chaotic history makes the accomplishments of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP; in Chinese: Zhongguo Gongchandang 中國共産黨) especially impressive. Victorious in the Civil War of the late 1940s, the CCP recreated China as a nation. When Chairman Mao 毛主席 declared the creation ... toward material improvement became the central theme in society, though the Four Modernizations were accompanied by the Four Cardinal Principles 四個基本å...

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... is an analysis of the Cultural Revolution typical of the earlier historiographical phases. Along similar lines, and in the Marxist Tradition, Leftist writer and co-founder of Worker's World Party, Sam Marcy, interprets the Cultural Revolution as an inevitable social progression, a struggle against revisionism, and a triumph of Revolutionary progress over Political Reactionaries . His writings on the Cultural ... Revolution's instigation. By allowing for the partialities existing from the time a work was published, and those of the historian, and comparing a variety of sources, a happy me...

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... to escape some form of oppression . . ."". In the countryside especially, Esherick notes that as early as 1971 Mark Seldon had identified a demand for "fairness- (gongdao) among the peasants. The party made tremendous efforts to combat favoritism, corruption, and bribery. Idlers and paupers were forced off farms they had squatted on without working. Given that their lives were so bad before ... , and the decision to retain an inflationary import substitution economy until labor absorption could be confirmed, Taiwan enjoyed amazingly low unemployment. In 1968, it became even more amazing a...

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... was in the late 1930's when Japanese tried to occupy China. After Japan surrendered in 1945, the end of the Second World War, the civil war accelerated. The climax was reached in 1949, when the leaders of Kuomitang were deported and communists established the People's Republic of China. 1.3 The People's Republic of China Many reforms were made right after the People ... 's Republic of China was established. The legislation was renewed to correspond Communist party's program. Organisations of local and state government were restructured. Economic life confronted also huge changes such as ...

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... the abdication of the Qing emperor in return for his own appointment as president of the republic. Also in 1912, a new revolutionary party was formed. This party, called the Guomindang, believed in parliamentary democracy and the principle of electing the officials. Because Yuan disagreed with GMD's ideas, he ... pursued. This was because the landlords and the warlords were cruelly taking advantage of the people, making their life miserable. Democracy, which he never reached, was no issue for Chiang, due to lack of basics in such a political leadership. He never gave the people a right ...

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... developed a New Culture movement, which was pro democracy and education, but rejected Confucianism and "the old ways." Furthermore, they declined the democratic systems of Great Britain and France(1). Chinese Communist Party (CCP) A rebellion, called May 4th Movement took place, demanding a more Socialist system. At this stage, the Soviet regimes and their withdrawal from the war started to appear to the Chinese ... organized his own nationalist government at Nanjing, in 1928. He was unable to unify China because of his desire to alienate the CCP and the peasants. Democracy, which he ne...

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... leader. While working in the Peking University library under Li Dazhao, Mao became a member of the CCP. His political ideology was formed in the 1930's when 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 ... and fortify China's southern, eastern, northern, and northwestern borders, he reinforced the Chinese examination system and consciencesally worked to appeal to the Chinese. With his attempts, Manchu rule re...

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... uncontrollably, politicians began to legitimize governmental control of the population. In a speech at the Third Session of the Fifth National People's Congress in 1980 the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Hau Guofeng presented China's predicament in the beginning of 1980. For a long period in the past, chiefly in the 1960's, we slackened our efforts with regard to family planning. As ... grow substantially in the coming years. Young people under 30 years of age account for about 65 per cent of the total population, or around 630 million. Some have already reached the age of fert...

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... Chinese living in extreme poverty will rise to 90 million," Wen Jiabao, the new China's premier, said at a press conference in Beijing. Other important challenges include the legitimacy of the Party leadership and systematic corruption and social polarization, etc. President Hu Jintao understood these challenges very clearly. The theory of "three represents" is to be used to meet these challenges. The ... in the Asian-Pacific region, because US is the most important member of WTO and holds the biggest international market. Two-way trade between China and the United States has reached 92...

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