How much impact did the GLF have on the economic development of China? To a certain extent the GLF's impact on China's economy was a failure overall because of Mao's poor economic planning, he thought that if China increased their industry and agriculture it would make China's economic situation flourish and it would make China 'leap' ahead of the world's leading countries and it would be done through a second five year plan running from 1958 to 1963. ... At Mao's command the Chinese people went to build their furnaces, 600,000 backyard furnaces were s...

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A Brief History After a century of wars and epidemics that left serious damages; the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949. ... Then the average Chinese family had over four children. ... Veritable or not, the policy has caused many irreversible problems for China. ... In Chinese culture, boys are viewed as culturally preferable, resulting in gender imbalance. ... The birth of females in China often results in abortion, abandonment and infanticide. ...

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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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Therefore, with a few words, China's imperial history collapsed. ... The replacement of the Ming dynasty by the Qing dynasty was a crucial moment in the history of late imperial China. ... Ethnic anti-Manchuism sentiments resounded throughout China as the alien dynastic order began their rule over China. ... This very developed system was implemented upon the Manchu's acquisition of China, thereby making China structured and orderly. ... He worked to redefine and fortify China's southern, eastern, northern, and northwestern borders, he reinforced the Chinese examination syst...

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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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In the early morning hours of 2 March 1969, Soviet border security personnel spotted a platoon-sized element of Chinese soldiers crossing the frozen Ussuri River, which forms a natural boundary between China and the USSR. The Soviet border outpost situated on the Ussuri launched a small contingent to intercept the Chinese element. ... China dismissed Moscow's aggressive posture and Mao was reluctant to respond to peace negotiations. ... The evidence for Reisel's assertion was based upon information obtained from intelligence agencies in other Asian countries regarding joint Chinese-S...

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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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Karl Marx once said: "History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches. ... This topic has come to my concern due to my interest as a Chinese to my own nation's history and culture, as well as the significant experiences and stories I was told as a kid by my grandmother, who has spent her childhood in Shanghai during the period of China's Great Leap Forward. ... An example include China's Great Leap Forward (1958-1961), led by the Communist Party of China. ... Analysis and Evidence Marxism was after all an ideology, an imagination of a perfect world, a series of eco...

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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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On 1st October 1949 after defeating the KMD in the Chinese Civil War, Mao announced at the gate of heavenly peace that he was now the leader of Peoples Republic of China. ... Also, Soviet aid had become excessive loans and exploitation of China. ... Collectivization policies produced famines in both China and Russia. ... The reasoning behind their policies is simplified to the desire to destroy the history and culture of the countries, which had long been associated with backwardness and dis-functionality, to create a new socialist society. ... However, not all of Mao's social polici...

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Introduction In the assessment of historical significance the Chinese Civil War is deemed to be very significant. The Chinese Civil War is recognized as the greatest stride towards unity in Chinese history. ... In this essay the evaluation of how the leadership one man changed the course of Chinese history. ... Background Information China's conflict with European powers began the with "Opium Wars " in which China attempted to rid the country of imperialism prompting the fall of Chinese trade the trade deficit was never replenished. ... The Chinese Communist Party used the Red Army to ex...

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Correspondingly, impact from their horrible family's 7experience during China's 1966-1967 Cultural Revolution8 and grievance towards Mao Zedong and the Chinese government, the Gao Brothers create works, notably The Execution of Christ, which 'ranges from the political and satirical to questions of material and spiritual spaces, and takes a humanitarian stance that questions the role government and the individual play within contemporary Chinese society since 1985.9' Thus, it can be seen that both of them are critical of the dark reign of the role governments and express th...

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