The years from 1928 to 1937 are known as the Nationalist era in Chinese history. ... On June 3 and 4, 1989, the Chinese People's Liberation Army brutally suppressed a prodemocracy demonstration in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, killing several hundred people. ... The Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 gave graphic evidence of the risks Hong Kong might face after 1997, and many residents began looking to make new lives abroad, or at least to obtain alternative passports in case of trouble. ...

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Karl Marx set forth the fundamental proposition, which forms the nucleus of the Communist Manifesto: that consequently the whole history of mankind (since the dissolution of primitive tribal society, holding land in common 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...

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Throughout history, China has always been known for its great strength in its number of people. ... In order to clearly see these problematic facets, one must first examine the history of China and its birth control policies from the time at which it became a significant issue right up until the present, while also predicting what the future might entail. Recently, a new law was imposed that affects this policy greatly, but it cannot be scrutinized until first examining the history behind it. ... Between 1989 and 1993, the fertility rate declined from 2.4 to 1.9 children per woman of reprod...

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Taiwan-China Reunification 1. Introduction 1.1 Background In 1949, Chiang Kai-shek's defeated Kuomintang and fled to Taiwan with Mao Zedong's Red Army in hot pursuit. Taiwan was regarded by the United States of America as being of no strategic significance and seemed destined to be taken over...

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The People's Republic of China has been a communist state since 1949, when Mao Zedong declared, after a bloody civil war, that all of China was to be combined under one banner, and that banner was Communism. For many years, China remained where it was, focusing more on its internal problems and economic reform within its own country; therefore, China was not worrying about what was going on in the rest of the world. However, in the 1990's after the Berlin Wall fell and Russia became a Federation with its first President in 1991, China began to look towards the rest of the world. Und...

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