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. ... Sun Yatsen, who advocated nationalism, socialism and democracy and believed that the country ought to be governed by the Chinese people, not foreigners (Gay, K. 2008). Throughout his school life, Mao and his peers read radical newspapers, studied world history and, according to Jonathan Spence, Chinese history specialist and former Professor of History at Yale University, Mao would read "whatever he could find on Sun Yatsen." ... Prof...

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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 participant in international markets for goods and capital prior to the late 1970's, China also was barely a participant in world capital markets."3 Many critics argue that China's communist ideals limited its participation in extensive markets, and thus the country's economy was doomed to falter from the outset. ... It melts like ice cream in the sun.7 China h...

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