... 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 Eric Hobsbawm's terminology, an empire was falling apart, and there was no nation to replace it. I do ... structural terms. While they broadly accepted the tenets of Maoism, they were prepared to compromise to achieve economic goals. They sought stability and material progress. They saw development of the economy as the way to ma...

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... deeply into the profits that the Chinese had been making from their own goods. In an attempt to shut off the opium trade, the Chinese outlawed opium in 1840, but the British went to war and forced them to allow it. After the loss, China entered in an agreement that in effect gave foreign control over the entire Chinese economy. This slap in the face brought on the first ... of many rebellions to change the traditional government. This was an indication of what China was going to look forward to in the future. By about 1897 western philosophy had appeared ... western skills such as gun ...

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... showed how hypocritical and uncanny the Americans were to the Asian minorities. Ranging from th e times of the Chinese in California to the migration of Japanese and Korean workers on the sugar plantations in Hawaii, all faced various forms of racism and dealt with individual problems in their own fashions. Race riots bring about a heated topic of controversy, however the basis of independence and justice ... steam laundry, cutlery, and contribute to the transcontinental railroad. From the first moment Asian immigrants stepped onto the land they were viewed with disdain in California. I...

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... subsidies; we can presume this money could be used to help industry once again because we know that industry is a sector requiring a lot of capital and still widely present in the Chinese economy. Another good point for China is that they did not really suffer the slowdown of 2001 or at least they underwent it but not so much as many other countries ... same time the exports have soared 50% in 2001. But China is already limited in arable lands and in water resources but problems such as air pollution, soil erosion or the fall of the water table is not really encouraging for the followin...

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... co-ethnic employer to employee relationship is particular to Los Angeles, in most garment producing industries in American cities and in Europe, there is normally a co-ethnic relationship between contractor and employee, for example the Chinese in New York tended on the whole to employ other Chinese immigrants, thus creating an ethnic economy, an economy based upon strong ethnic ties, one where ethnic entrepreneurs employ co ... have their rights abused by employers with impunity because the vast majority of them are illegal immigrants and therefore without rights. So in essence the imm...

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... spend even a fraction of what we are spending, especially a nation such as the Communist State of China. Though with China and the problems that it is having with Japan and the Philippines it does not do anything good for political relations with other nations. China has not made ... only been recent incursions into other countries land such as the islands that Japan currently owns. China is not taking more territory to better its economy. China is looking to increase security and take what they believe is rightfully theirs. I do not believe that China is trying to fight ... some occasi...

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