Under the new leadership of Deng Xiaoping, China revolutionized its policy on fertility and wealth. ... Section one shows why The One-Child Policy was conceived and how it was executed. ... The One-Child Policy has pushed fertility down to approximately 2 children or replacement level. ... ("Major Determinants of China's Fertility Transition," Peng 36) Once the government acknowledged that birth rates were not going to naturally decrease, and that the population would soon rise uncontrollably, politicians began to legitimize governmental control of the population. ... If populatio...

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Government officials should be helping to control the overpopulated world. ... Stage three: birth rates decrease hence birth control, and increases in wages. ... Basically, there are many solutions to help control the increasing population. ... Family planning methods are also a great solution to help control the population (Chow, 2007). ... Options other than birth control are tubal ligation. ...

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The two factions held civil war for more than 20 years before the CCP won control of China under Mao Zedong. During the Rule of Mao the government enforced many policies favoring socialist and communist policies, such as: Cultural Revolution and the Five-Year Plan, in which the government tried to equalize the social classes and unite the country as one under the banner of equality and contempt against the west. During the latter half of the 20th century Deng Xiaoping emerged as the new leader of China, and instituted many policies contrasting his predecessor Mao Zedong. ... Through the past ...

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For the past forty years, the People's Republic of China, the Republic of China (Taiwan), and Japan have been fighting over a territory dispute for five uninhabited islands and three rocks in the East China Sea, of which Japan currently has "administrative control". ... By 1895, after the first Japanese and Chinese (Sino) war, the islands were under the controlling victor, Japan, as stipulated by the Treaty of Shimonoseki ("Overview," 2009). ... After World War II, all territory under the Treaty of Shimonoseki was transferred to the Treaty of San Francisco, giving con...

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This rise has taken place over the last three decades as China has slowly loosened its trade policies from a central system to a more market-orientated system (CIA). ... As mentioned above, there are some issues that could occur if the inflation rate continues to rise, but "The government is likely to put off increases in utility and energy prices and maintain a loose fiscal policy despite the tightening in China's monetary policy" (China Inflation Rate). ... In this political system, the state owns and/or controls all economic functions, such as trades, labor, and fisc...

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That quickly led to a commitment to economic development under the auspices of a politically autocratic state – all of this under the control of a political party that in 2010 calls itself "communist" but that encourages millionaires to join its ranks, and which espouses a market economy in a blend that no one quite knows what to call. ... The loss of central control was caused both by external and internal problems. ... The Chinese empire had existed for millennia, and this was not the first time that outsiders had taken control. But taking control meant taking over the exist...

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With the establishment of a Communist regime in China in 1949, Mao and his comrades assumed nominal control over a people whose attitudes and conduct had been determined by codes of behavior dating back thousands of years. ... Reports regarding the collectivization of peasants policy did not accurately reflect the detramental effects of the Great Leap Forward. Instead, exaggerated reports of the success of policies hid the disasters created by Great Leap Forward. ... Third, after years of governing the territories under their control, the Communists had experience as well as discipline, org...

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Hegemony occurs when a civilizations chooses to extends its cultural, social, economic, and political influence over other nations within the international community. Between the periods of 600 to 1450 CE, it was difficult and impossible for one nation to entirely dominate the globe due to the dista...

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They see the ability to actively control relationships, protect security issues, as well as defend their economic interests in a more composed manner. ... Likewise, if China expects to compete with advanced industrialized countries, its restrictions on the free flow of information and control of communications, in turn would disadvantage them (Friedberg 2005, p.15). ...

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In Hong Kong, there are no tariffs, no quotas, no foreign exchange controls and no restrictions on investments. ... The main key elements of Hong Kong's success as an economic centre are its sound economic fundamentals, mainly: the government's policy of minimum intervention, practices of low taxation, free and fair market competition, orthodox legal and financial framework and a convertible and secure currency (Hung, 2000). ... In addition, China avoided direct intervention in Hong Kong's economic affairs, thus, keeping its "hands-off", "laissez-faire", policy adopted with the ...

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Preface Marriage and families founded through marriage constitute the basic cells of the society. It involves a multi-layer relationship between neighbors and other elements in the community, and it is so regarded by the Chinese as the top issue of the morality of human kind. Wedding ceremony is the ritual conducted when the couple decides to establish a marital relationship and through which they can win over the approval, recognition and protection of the community. The procedure of the wedding ceremony actually reflects the various social and cultural notions. The wedding customs in anci...

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