Also, because of the history of English in China, English education in China has its own style which is no speaking English and by the influence of English, Chinese people created China English and English became a required skill for working. "Adamson (2002) analyzes the official role and status of English language and education in China by dividing Chinese history into three periods – the Qing dynasty, the Republican era, and the People's Republic of China.... English already has a long history in China, Chinese people also created their own English style which is the China E...

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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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I also think that Chinas laws are too strict for people to abide by. ... This shows how unfair and cruel china's laws can be. ... The abortion procedures in China are unnerving to most people. ... And this is not how women in china should be treated. ... And they would explain to her various choices such as whether she should could keep the child or have the option for an abortion and how it would fit her personal medical history to help her reach a decision and then provide prenatal care or abortion services, either in the doctors office or a clinic or hospital. ...

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Jia Qing-ling, who is a history professor in Qing-hua University, lists the dishes that Song emperor was served during the Spring Festival. ... Even the ancient Chinese doctor Li Shi-zhen wrote a book Compendium of Materia Medica on the use of herbs in Chinese cuisines. The enthusiasm of the Chinese people and the popularity of cooking encouraged the development of Chinese cooking technology. ... Chinese cooking has a long history, from the precious food for the emperors, to the poor diet during the Cultural Revolution, to the modern cooking styles of the present, it has become an important p...

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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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"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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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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Introduction Recent history has certainly provided us with many examples of powerful, mutually beneficial alliances: France/England/US in WW I, Germany/Italy/Japan in WW II, just to name a few. ... Sino-Soviet History The winds of change were blowing over Eastern Europe and China towards the end of World War I. ... For China, it was a similar situation. ... In perhaps the most undocumented military incident in recent history, the Soviet Union and China came close to the brink of nuclear war. ... Indeed, the world could be a very different place, had there been more cooperation and uni...

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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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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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Orders to MacArthur by Truman told him to halt proceeding at the first sign of Chinese soldiers. ... Sightings of Chinese soldiers became more and more frequent, and Chinese POWs were taken. ... The Chinese soldiers were sent to guard against invasion, as they feared the US planned to extend their movement into China. ... On the field, US troops were involved in the longest retreat in US history, 120 miles from the Yale river to south of the 38th parallel in less than 1 and a half weeks. ... The tolls for the US were 50,000 soldiers, and the tolls for China was hundreds of thousands. ...

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That mark later transformed into a scar which will never leave Chinas history. ... It was China that belonged to the people, not the people belonging to China. ... Now the building of communist China under Mao begins. ... That mark later transformed into a scar which will never leave Chinas history. ... It was China that belonged to the people, not the people belonging to China. ...

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Mao Tse-Tung was a principal Chinese Marxist theorist, a soldier and a statesman who commanded China's communist revolution. He was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party from 1935; he was chairman of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death on 1959. ... He used fanatical teenage believers to resurrect China. ... These campaigns eventually lead to famine and starvation and it costs millions of death and is coined as the one of the worst famine in history. It is considered by some experts as the worst famine in all of history (Lu, 2000). ...

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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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The main sources that will be used in reference are Mao TseTung and China, Mao's China and After, and China's Economy and the Maoist Strategy. ... China's Economy and the Maoist Strategy was written by John G. ... Gurley does an excellent job of breaking down China's economy. ... Meisner is currently the Harvey Goldberg Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Visiting Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics. ... Overall, this would serve to initiate China's economic revival. ...

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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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