Communist Party of China

presents, Dikotter aims to show the ways in which Great Leap Forward policies resulted in the “near collapse of a social and economic system on which Mao had staked his prestige.” Mao’s Great Famine examines the political situation of the Chinese Communist Party that allowed for upwards on 45 million to starve and die as well as the extensive economic, environmental, and social costs of Mao’s grand vision that was the Great Leap Forward. Dikotter’s detailed accounts of political events, the…

Does China represent a threat or opportunity to Australia? Discuss in relation to trade and security The rise of China has sparked renewed public and political interest in Australia’s foreign policy. As an engine of the world economy, China has elevated Australia’s trade market and has influenced Australia’s economic stability through the export demands of China and its bilateral agreements. Additionally, Australia’s involvement with China impacts its security environment. This essay will…

its effectiveness as guanxi leadership is deeply-seated in China. Guanxi, in Chinese context, refers to “reciprocal relationship between people, and preferential treatment given to the partners in an exchange, in the form of easy access to limited resources, increased access to controlled information, credit grants, and protection from external competitors” (Guan, 2009). Some people believed that guanxi culture can hardly change with one-party dictatorship, thus the anti-corruption campaign…

Zedong caused the deaths of 45 million civilians living in the People 's Republic of China. Through various events in the life of the chinese communist leader, Mao Zedong, it lead him to the powerful communist leader that he had become. On December 26th, 1893 Mao Zedong or Mao TseTung was born into a family of peasants, although they did not fit the norm. They lived in the province of Hunan in southern China in a village called Shaoshan or Music Mountain. Mao’s father, Mao…

Since the late 1970s, China has experienced unprecedented economic growth and development. Established in 1949, the People’s Republic of China, under the governance of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) set forth to achieve national unity, social and economic change and freedom from foreign interference (Cienciala, 1999). Mao’s economy was established by 1952, and was a socialist, command economy (Mitter, 2008). Started on the simple principle frequently stated by Deng Xiaoping,…

frequent diplomacy helped China survived on this unparalleled crisis. The 19th century of China opened with a broad reform of institutions, particularly in the military system. As a result, the revolution occurs and “followed by the breakup of China as the leaders of autonomous armies fought for power” (Dreyer 1). Kuomintang Party stood against the Communist Party and waged a massive civil war mainly in the Northeast part of China, “ending only with the victory of communists on the mainland in…

The Hong Kong Umbrella Protests Seventeen years ago Hong Kong was passed from British rule over to China. China vowed in the Hong Kong Joint-Declaration to operate under the policy of “one country, two systems.” The agreement was recently broken when the Chinese government located in the capital, Beijing, ordered that they would weed out the candidates that could and could not run for the 2017 election in Hong Kong. This proclamation has sparked nonviolent protesting not only in Hong Kong but…

Mao Zedong His advocates say he was a visionary who transformed China into a modern nation. The others say he was a tyrant who’s responsible for millions of deaths. Mao Zedong was born on December 26, 1893 into a wealthy farmer’s family in Shaoshan village. This peasant boy soon grew up to be the Chairman of the Communist Party of China, recorded today as one of the most brutal dictators. Communism Even from a young age, the ambition inside Mao was recognizable. He enjoyed reading “historical…

system. Even though “democracy reigns in almost half the world’s states” (Samuels 2013a pp. 93), there are still instances where a country is unlikely to change it’s regime. While some countries appear to be continuously involved in regime changes, China is not one of them. In this paper I will argue…

The economic development in Taiwan and China between the 1980s and 1990s steps up the sequence of events that leads to either the rise of democracy in one country or the survival of the one party system based on the wealth of everyone. In this paper, I will argue that between the 1980s and 1990s in Taiwan, there was economic development that leads to the rise of fluid democracy based on the power theory while in China during the same time period, the rise in economic development doesn’t lead to…