People's Republic of China

dynasty was in control of the Chinese government. China was threatened by the British and Western Barbarians. This resulted in what is known as the Opium War. The British government was exporting Opium to China. Chinese citizens were getting addicted to opium and eventually the Chinese government stopped opium import from Great Britain. This hurt the British economy and resulted in a war between the two countries. At the end of the Opium War China was forced to give up land and be colonized by…

countries were still rebuilding after World War II; China in specific was recovering from subsequent wars. They…

ping-pong team was invited to the Chinese capital in April of 1971. During their visit the group was treated as though they were dignitaries or royalty. They played matches against the Chinese team but also visited important landmarks through out China. The American delegation was accompanied by members of the press and was closely watched by the American public. At a banquet for the visiting Americans, Chou En-Lai, the Chinese Premier told the group, “Exchanges between our two countries have…

Comparative paragraph – the two long journeys The two greatest leaders, Hannibal Barca and Mao Zedong, both made the remarkable journey. The first one, Hannibal Barca, was born in 247 B.C. He grew up to be a bold and fearless warrior like his father, who was a general in the army. He decided to march about 2,415 kilometers across the Pyrenees and the Alps. Incredibly, he led the army of about 90,000 men and 37 elephants by walking around 16 kilometers a day for 5 months. Their five-month journey…

Out of the current civilizations and religions in the world, China is the most ancient that still stands today. The religion of China today is a mixture of many different forms, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, and Chinese folk religion. Forms of these religions and former parts of Chinese religion has been dated to go back to 5000 B.C. The history of China has seen many of dynasties throughout the years. The first known dynasty was the Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 B.C.).…

revolution and the founding member of the Chinese Communist Party(CCP), Chairman Mao Zedong(毛泽东) was born. Although many of his socialist reforms resulted in failure and caused much devastation for the people of China, his legacy as a nationalist leader and the creator of an independent China still inspires post-Mao generations. Born from a peasant family, Chairman Mao understood what it was like to be in the “98 percent”. This allowed him to make a majority of the population feel connected with…

years, from 1949 to the end of the 20th century, the People 's Republic of China has gone from a poor, isolated, under-developed, overpopulated country to one of the biggest economies and most powerful countries in the world. That 50-year journey was long, difficult and different at various periods for the people of China. To elaborate, contradicted to the fact that the Communist Party of China has been the one dominant political regime, China has witnessed many changes within the leadership.…

Pak-China Economic Corridor: Geo- Strategic Importance of Pakistan The geographical significance of a country plays a pivotal role in the world politics for that country. It marks that how critically beneficial or non-beneficial is the country to the other countries in social, economic and political respects. Pakistan is located at a very strategically important place on the globe. It is located at the juncture of energy proficient to energy deficient countries. On…

incentives. Mao certainly did not want to fall behind and immediately claimed a similar goal for China to catch up or surpass Britain in 15 years, but in his case by using a model that would supposedly not lead to urban-rural inequality. Thereafter, the idea of surpassing Britain and catching up with the United States became an important motivation for the Great Leap Forward. He not only thought that China could surpass Britain and the U.S. in industrial development, but also surpassing the…

themselves ‘as different from men as earth was from heaven’, but as half of China holding up or constituting the other ‘half of heaven’” (Croll, 2). Today, the Chinese society alongside with the rest of the world are living in a time where women are not restricted from getting a proper education, living independently, having a good career, and to speak our minds; however, this was not always true in the past. Previously in early China, women were treated like objects, “Their feet were bound,…