The Opium War of China, beginning in January 1840, was a major Turning Point in history which subsequently affected a great number of the Chinese population of 400 million. ... China was an agrarian country, and was ruled over by an Emperor. ... The official history of the Ming had described how the Portuguese used to boil and eat Chinese children. ... The British have always considered using conflict to force trade upon the Chinese, but a total war with China was not an initial plan. ... The prospects of extraterritoriality in China was also appealing to the British, where although they w...

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China has for many years been a major contributor in the role of technology. ... But China is indeed better than at any time in its modern history. ... This would not be a good way to approach the Chinese. China bases their decisions more off actions than verbal promises. ... Chinese negotiations are generally well thought out and take time. ...

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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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Throughout history, China has always been known for its great strength in its number of people. However, in the past 20 or so years, China has been fervently trying to reverse this characteristic. ... 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. ...

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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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As he sees it there are a "raft of concerns" and "collectively they are more than enough to return China to the fractured, self-containing mess that it has been for most of its history" (p. 290). In his assumption he faults the Chinese financial system as the biggest reason why China will fall. As Zeiban sees it, Chinas fall will be from an "entire Chinese system that is subprime, in every economic sector" (p. 309). ... Meanwhile, the People's Bank of China and China Banking Regulatory Commission are testing new bad-load securitization programs." ... Through...

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In 1979, the Chinese government selected to make Chinese communism more open and capitalistic. ... The Chinese government had several options for spurring growth. ... China's population has grown dramatically during the last century. ... To compare China's population to that of the United States, the current population of the US is 290,000,000; clearly, China faces many complications of overpopulation (US Census Bureau). ... In a speech at the Third Session of the Fifth National People's Congress in 1980 the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party Hau Guofeng presented Chin...

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Some of the most powerful civilizations in history arose from river valleys. ... These events were known as Chinas Sorrow. ... The religion of the Chinese people was polytheistic. ... Therefore, a written Chinese language was born. ... The written language was the same throughout all of China. ...

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Although, this spirit of newly acquired friendship did not last long when Chinese maps were published showing portions of Indian territory as that of the Chinese. ... BILATERAL TRADE AND ECONOMICS According to Angus Maddison, a British economist and international scholar on macroeconomic history of the world, "India and China were competing with each other in the first sixteen or seventeen centuries of the Christian era. ... " India's export to China is nowhere in league with the import. ... Moreover, the Chinese strategy to occupy important sea routes from the South China se...

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As China's entry into the WTO since 2001, it seems gradually obvious that the concussion, the collision, the combination and development between Chinese traditional value and the importing western cultural value has become nationwide recognized. Confronted with the enormously coming western culture and product nowadays, my point is that, we Chinese are having a kind of attitude that combined with partially acceptance, partially refusal and partially development. ... China is an ancient country with a history of more than 5000 years. ... With the principle of self-center in this process...

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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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Furthermore, this same pattern of countries changing their political and economic policies to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) can be readily seen throughout history and is not unique to Latin America. First, we consider the example of China. China, under the rule of Mao Ze Dong, received virtually no FDI and relied largely on the Soviet Union for technology and its own planned economy. ... These zones were created specifically for the attraction of foreign investment in China and became "drivers of regional and eventually national growth." ... Therefore, we see that the throughout h...

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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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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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