Two years after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, it became apparent to many of China's leaders that economic reform was necessary. ... By 1978 "Chinese leaders were searching for a solution to serious economic problems produced by Hua Guofeng, the man who had succeeded Mao Zedong as CCP leader after Mao's death" (Shirk 35). Hua had demonstrated a desire to continue the ideologically based movements of Mao. ... Mao's successor, Hua Guofeng, had "tried to prove himself a worthy successor to Mao by draping himself in the mantle of Maoist tradition. ... This policy--deno...

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Mao Zedong encourages this by stating in his work On Practice that you can "discover truth through practice and through practice verify and develop truth." ... Zedong argues that truth is both developed and verified through practice. ... An opposing view to Zedong's beliefs is presented by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki in The Meaning of Satori. ...

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Chinese Economic Reform Two years after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, it became apparent to many of China's leaders that economic reform was necessary. ... By 1978 "Chinese leaders were searching for a solution to serious economic problems produced by Hua Guofeng, the man who had succeeded Mao Zedong as CCP leader after Mao's death" (Shirk 35). Hua had demonstrated a desire to continue the ideologically based movements of Mao. ... Mao's successor, Hua Guofeng, had "tried...

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Due to the civil war, after the Japanese invasion and occupation, between Mao Zedong and his communist forces and the nationalist forces of Chiang Kaishek in 1945 - 49, the physical activities carried out where of a military style, they would do marching exercises, and use guns etc. to train. ...

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Stalin Essay Stalin's Childhood The man who the world would come to know as Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, on December 21, 1879, in the Georgian village of Gori, a small town in the southern reaches of the Russian Empire. He was the third child born to Vissarion Dzhugashvili, a poor shoemaker and his wife Yekaterina, who worked as a house cleaner. The young Iosif was the only one of their children to survive childhood. Stalin's father Vissarion was an abusive hard drinking man who eventually failed as an independent artisan and left his fam...

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How has the issue of gender superiority evolved in China? The existence of women throughout China's history was that of total inferiority. As the Chinese society developed women became subordinate to men. Even when death comes, this lesser position was brought out in the discoveries of ancient graves. They showed the wife's corpse in a bowing position towards her husband. ...

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