Although many things divide them today, Communist and Nationalist Chinese agree in their admiration for Sun Yat-Sen, known as the father of modern China. ... In 1912 the Republic of China was proclaimed. ... China joined the Allies in World War I, and at the Versailles peace conference the Chinese demanded an end to foreign spheres of influence in their country. ... The years from 1928 to 1937 are known as the Nationalist era in Chinese history. ... But Communist China was admitted to the United Nations in 1971, and in 1972 US President Richard Nixon visited China, beginning the normalization ...

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"What do the Chinese Communists want? ... They want the world" - Statement from Richard Nixon in 1960's Kennedy-Nixon President TV debates in Waugh,S., (2001), Essential Modern World History, Thomas Nelson: UK Yet if the US were to try and contain China, it would need the support of at least some South East Asian states. ... In Chinese eyes, this was a provoking and totally unwarranted interference in a purely Chinese affair. Because of this interference of USA in Chinese foreign affairs, China sees that the US stands in the way of her strategic goals . ... However, the Vietnam War ge...

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-Why have the approaches to the construction of history changed over time? This essay was originally to deal with debates regarding Soviet Russian history. ... This seemed to be a trend for many aspects of Russian history. Consequently, this subject was dropped in favour of studying the history of the Chinese Communist Party, as it was an area which I was keen to learn about, overlapped in many places with Soviet history and had a relatively large amount of data published about it. ... The subject is also advantageous as at several points the Sino-Soviet histories overlap. ...

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STUDIES OF CHANGE: The Chinese Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution in China was the result of years of discontent among China's people at their outdated government and society, but what were the efficacious, particular motives and conditions for cultural revolutionary Mao Tse-Tung to bring about such major reforms? China; Asia's leading economic power and its most populous country, is a highly diverse and complex country with an equally diverse and complex history. ... Throughout his school life, Mao and his peers read radical newspapers, studied world history and, accordi...

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To answer this, I have selected three countries in East Asia who are close to China in geographical terms and also very similar to China before the Foreign Direct Investment swarmed into China in the 1990s; India, the Philippines, and Vietnam. ... Another key reason why investors will remain in China is the Chinese government structure. ... Furthermore, because the Chinese government is communist, it gives China a huge advantage over other developing democratic countries for many reasons. ... In the 1970s, the Chinese government launched a project to establish the Special Economic Zone near th...

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The Chinese economy stagnated during the social-oriented rule of Mao in the 1950's. Instead of focusing on the modernization of the country's agricultural-based economy, China's leader intended to install the many values and doctrines of communism into Chinese society. ... Thus China's market economy was scrapped in favor of one that promoted self-reliance. ... Communist nations have a history of playing minor roles in the world market, and China under Mao was not an exception, "At the outset of its economic reforms in the late 1970's, China was an insignificant partic...

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Marxism proposes that, as history develops, feudalism gives rise to capitalism, then socialism, and finally the ideal classless society is realised. ... History has taught unequivocally that Marx was simply mistaken. ... History has proven that gradual change, rather than revolution, has been the most successful route to a fairer and more affluent society. ... In China one of the last remaining Communist regimes, gradual changes are being introduced to create a capitalist, democratic state. ... If Marxist socialism was successful then why would China be making a retreat from it? ...

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Deng Xiaoping got away from Mao Tse-tung and came up with the second revolution, this dealt with reforming China's declining economy system and giving them the opportunity of improving and saving such damaged economy. As well as permitting China to open out to the world with an improved and reformed economic system. ... In the late 1900s, the reform included efforts to boost foreign trade through the establishment of about twelve different state companies that controlled imports and exports along China's southern coastlines. ... Even though both reforms seemed to have potential and e...

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"For the first time in the nations history Americans were asked to fight and die to contain an idea". ... Despite this support, America's Korean campaign was unsuccessful, this was to some degree the fault of President Truman, who had not believed that the Chinese government would be prepared to intervene and he also underestimated the military power of China. Therefore, not wanting to engage in an all-out war with China and the Soviet Union, which would most likely have led to the Third world war, Truman was forced to negotiate, and thus the Korean War ended in stalemate on July 1953 ...

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Communism have existed in many countries of the world such as Italy, East Germany, France, the Union Soviet, China, Cuba, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, North Korea, Poland, Romania, and Vietnam. Even Albania, this small country, couldn't escape from this phenomenon that captures all these countries at least once in their history. ... Albanians did a hard and long war to win their independence, dealing with strong countries such as Italy and Germany, and when finally they archived this goal, a new, harder stage was going to be written through the pages ...

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(Tonkin Annam and Cochin China were regions in the North, Central and South Vietnam. ... The Chinese had no sympathy for the French and when they withdrew, they left Ho's government in place. ... The French forced the Viet Minh into the country areas and first Indo-Chinese war had begun. ... By the end of 1949, the situation had radically changed with the success of the Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army (PLA) against the Nationalist Chinese. ... In the South, "Cochin China", the communist-led forces were too weak, lacking in arms and effective leadership, to prevail against ...

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During the same period, China underwent several transformations, which included opening up the economy to the west and increasing foreign investment. ... Even though the desire of the Chinese citizens to end the Communist regime and establish a democracy resulted in the government returning to its conservative roots, the revolution was a wake up call to the west to act against the oppressive acts of the Chinese regime. ... For example, it would be incorrect to label the Chinese economy as entirely communist because it is clear that it is opening up to the West. ... The modern approach st...

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In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. ... China previously the world's other major communist economy announced that it would privatize most state industries. ...

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In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. ... China previously the world's other major communist economy announced that it would privatize most state industries. ...

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Revolutions are and will always be a turning point in history, whether it was the French Revolution, a political overthrow, or the Industrial Revolution, a new way of living. ... Communism rained over the world in countries such as Russia which at the time was the Soviet Union and countries like China. ... These reforms changed the course of England's history and how the government was perceive by it's citizens and how the government should protect the rights of it's people. ...

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Marx's theory of history is an account of the different stages of government through history. His analysis describes capitalism as the first stage followed by socialism and finally communism. Marx believed that socialism is where workers recognized their interests and became "class conscious". This ...

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