Chiang Kai-shek

China in many centuries regarded itself as self-sufficient and a country that is more superior than other countries. China is a feudal society where it does not associate nor trade with other countries; therefore, this isolation with the outside world indirectly led to fail of the Qing Dynasty. China is transition from a traditional society to a modern one and transformation from the Kuomingdang to the Communism; where under Chairman Mao Zedong’s ruling, people have to get rid of the old and…

The Forbidden City The Forbidden City, known as Gu Gong in Chinese, was the imperial palace throughout the Ming and Qing dynasties—the years 1420 to 1912. It lays at the center of Beijing. It currently houses the Palace Museum. The Forbidden City served as the home of emperors and their households as well as the ceremonial and political center of Chinese government for nearly five hundred years.The most noticeable and vital aspects of the Forbidden City are the history, architecture, and…

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.” (Buddah) in this paper I will explain how not only Chinas suzerainty and subsequent annexation of Tibet, has influenced Tibet and its environment as well as western perspective on the issue but also how globalization and the march for modernity have contributed to this. what originally started as a relationship between conqueror and the conquered when the Mongols led by Kublai Khan…

The Famine In the start of the second five year plan, Mao told his people to eat as much as tell wanted to eat so that their strengths can go into agriculture and produce more food to provide to the people of china. During the autumn season, people were told to eat, not worrying about the winter time. During the winter season the amount of food supply decreased. During Chinese New Year, the elderly and the sick began to die and over 25 million people were starving when spring came. The…

Mao Zedong was a Communist leader of the Chinese Communist Party from its founding until his death in 1976. He was the first chairman of the People’s Republic of China, the one-party state founded in 1949 after the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang. In 1958, he launched his campaign, the “Great Leap Forward,” to industrialize the Chinese economy. This led quite oppositely to widespread famine and unrest. Mao initiated the Cultural Revolution in 1966, with a goal to destroy…

They both had charismatic legitimacy although their stories differed. Zedong gained his legitimacy after a civil war with the GMD. He successfully led the liberation army into driving Chiang Kai-shek and a majority of the GMD out of Mainland China in 1949 ( Zheng Wang 85). He then proceeded to proclaim the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in Tiananmen Square, Beijing. Mao Zedong did so because this was the capital of China and…

World War II lasted from September first, nineteen-thirty-nine through September second, nineteen-forty-five. In nineteen-eighteen, After World War I, Germany was prohibited from having armed forces. Then in nineteen-thirty-three, Germans voted Adolf Hitler as their new leader who quickly armed his country once again. Hitler wasted no time to try and capture new land from other countries to make Germany a stronger country. World war II had a major impact on many different parts of the world. The…

8-2016 Tran-Van-Binh After the special Police ordeal; the loss of her parents, Loan finally moved in with aunt Tam; after all, aunt Tam was the only relative that Loan has in Dalat. When the ripple of the Special Police had smoothened and Lien successfully had reinstated the license of café BoHo, Loan and Loan went back to work again, as if nothing had happened. Lien still flew happily among her customers, talking about their schools work, advising on their love life, or just recommending…

It was just more than one year after the signing of the Nazi-Soviet Pact that the directive for Operation Barbarossa was issued. Signed by Hitler on December 18, 1940, the secret document demanded the Wehrmacht to crush Russia in a rapid campaign, undoing the agreement for spheres of influence throughout Eastern Europe. It remains a point of contention whether Berlin wooed Moscow into benign rapprochement in a series of deceptions stemming from the directive or Stalin, throughout it all,…

The second World War was the biggest war in human history. The war started in 1939 and lasted until 1945 when the United Nations won the war. There are over 60 million people who died in this war, including many civilians. Those civilians died from bombings, diseases and tests for chemical weapons. This is insane! There were many events that happened during the Second World War, most of them were bombings, like the Pearl Harbor incident. Many of the wars were instigated by the Axis Alliance,…