Chinese law has become serious business. ... It is not easy to view China objectively. ... The Loss of Central Authority during the Qing 清 Dynasty In 1949 the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) reunited China. ... It meant persuading native Chinese, Han Chinese, to serve as functionaries. ... The Chinese culture was so developed and so strong that those who could vanquish Chinese armies became trapped in Chinese culture. ...

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Sun Yat-sen's claims were not acknowledged and Yuan Shikai was give the power to develop a provisional republican government and to organize national unity with the Revolutionary Alliance and the other anti-Imperial forces in central and south China. ... Ethnic anti-Manchuism sentiments resounded throughout China as the alien dynastic order began their rule over China. ... He worked to redefine and fortify China's southern, eastern, northern, and northwestern borders, he reinforced the Chinese examination system and consciencesally worked to appeal to the Chinese. ... The fall of...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Broadly speaking, there are those authors who champion Taiwan's economic policies and make the straightforward case that the KMT-led government of Taiwan simply got it right. ... Economically, pre-1949 China was in many ways a rentier state. ... Farmers were poor, not represented, and subjected to harassment and humiliation by KMT or government officials. ... Because the state was weak, the government was unable to bring the benefits of modernization to the "backwards- areas of rural China, according to Esherick. ... Chiang Kai-shek's government was too weak at first to fight ...

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China was "still a state in which the central government retain[ed] the dominant power in economic resource allocation and responsible local officials work[ed] for the interest of the units under their control" (Solinger 103). ... For example, long-term sales contracts between farmers and the government were established. In addition, in an effort to allow the market to determine prices, "city prices of fruit and vegetables, fish, meat, and eggs, were freed from government controls so they could respond to market demand" (Shirk 39). ... The economy grew so quickly that inflation...

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China was "still a state in which the central government retain[ed] the dominant power in economic resource allocation and responsible local officials work[ed] for the interest of the units under their control" (Solinger 103). ... For example, long-term sales contracts between farmers and the government were established. In addition, in an effort to allow the market to determine prices, "city prices of fruit and vegetables, fish, meat, and eggs, were freed from government controls so they could respond to marke...

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• Grade Level: High School

Ai Weiwei is a Chinese contemporary artist and activist who was born in Beijing on August 28th 1957. ... Ai began creating works that irrevocably transformed centuries-old Chinese artifacts. ... These books were published outside the official government channels and became signposts for China's underground art community. ... Sina Weibo is the biggest internet platform in China and Ai initially used it as a means of documenting the mundane aspects of his life, but he soon found it to be a suitable forum for his blunt criticism of the Chinese government.(2) Four years later on May 28, 2009 ...

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The imperial Chinese governments never engaged themselves in heavy handed censoring. ... This for of censorship was able to be successful because of the Chinese background of Confucianism that denied most Chinese laymen individuality. ... Plato also pays notice to the need of the true government to not allow any other revolution against it. ... (Chinese Culture Center) The hall of culture and history, better know as the Wenshiguan, slowly lost its support by the government as everything "old" was pushed out of culture. ... (Imada) As China's government denigrated in the 1980'...

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Events casting the Cultural Revolution in a negative light include the influence of the Chinese Communist Party, the rise of Occidentalism, availability of new evidence and the death of Lin Biao. ... So Marcy's pro-Mao work is attributed to his left wing beliefs, Chang's work is linked to her experiences as a participant in the events, and Becker's works are attributed to his insubordination to the Chinese government in his writings for the South China Morning Post. ... Roderick MacFarquhar's Origins of the Cultural Revolution 1 , as the leading volume dealing with this p...

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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. ... When Sun died of cancer in 1925: due to the lack of government organization the land became over run by warlords. ... The Chinese Communist Party used the Red Army t...

• Word Count: 3831
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate