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to $6000 in 2012. Pulling hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The idea was that the less people there are, the less pressure on the economy there is. Officials report that the policy has prevented over 400 million births, although third party experts have stated that 100 million births is a more realistic number. (Beech,…

China has a long history comprised of several dynasties throughout time. Scattered throughout Chinese rule are foreign conquerors that lead China into prosperity. Peasant rebel revolts, as well as a series of famines that struck China during the early seventeenth century, left the system of government vulnerable. After the collapse of the Ming Dynasty in 1644, Manchu people flooded south into China from their Manchuria homeland of the north and proclaimed a new, “pure” reign of power known as…

with only an estimated three hundred in the initial crowd, growing to hundreds of thousands to protest against the governing party. Most of the original three hundred left voluntarily once the police had arrived but news quickly spread and crowds sweltered with posters, megaphones, banners and chants. These people put themselves in danger to stop the horror of the Communist Party. As the streets erupted the rally turned to a riot. The protestors stormed the gates on Jinjiang but police were…

government listen to their ideas. Several members of the Chinese government, including Deng Xiaoping (current leader of China), assumed that the protesters were attempting to overthrow the Communist Party. Others were sympathetic, favoring a conciliatory approach, including Zhao Ziyang (General Secretary of the Communist Party). The group of protesters became increasingly larger, exceeding 1 million people. Teachers, doctors, housewives,…

with economic and social problems in part to the failure of Communism. The Communist Party still stayed strong throughout these crises although they resulted in more deaths than the Soviet Union and the Nazi regime’s atrocities. The party elected Deng Xiaoping, who was left to lift the country back up. Xiaoping launched an economic reform program which used capitalist ideas such as material prosperity, contradicting the Communist views of state ownership. It lessened government intervention in…

Japan’s defeat in WW2. The Chinese Communist Party established the People’s Republic of China. This caused the relationship between Chinese peasants and the Chinese Communist Party to change greatly. The peasant class developed a nationalistic movement for themselves, peasants gained social equality and the anti-Japanese beliefs grew. In this time period, the Japanese peasant class fought for nationalistic movements. Mao Zedong, a rising leader of the Chinese Communist Party (Doc. 1), talks…

On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the creation of the People’s Republic of China. China followed the Soviet model of government from 1949 to 1959, but the Soviet model relied heavily on a large industrial population. China did not have a large industrial population (Stanton 2016). Instead, Mao made the foundation of his revolution the peasants (Marlay and Neher 1999). Mao instigated a reworking of Chinese society during his rule, as Mao strictly believed that change must be the constant…

practices, such as women as concubines, arranged marriages, and the marrying of minor girls were abolished during the Cultural Revolution. Women were able to work outside of the home and some women were able to assume leadership positions within the Communist Party. Contemporary Chinese women have access to higher education and have assumed leadership positions within government and the private sector. Despite the increased opportunities, women are still often defined by the roles of wife and…

Everyone, from the head of political movements to the rich and working class to the bottom of the social pyramid has been affected by history and the current events of their lives. No one can evade the historical circumstances of their lives. Ordinary people recall what it was like living during the event and how it affected their lives. Influential figures like Mao, know the inside workings of the event, how it started and the actual purpose. Understanding China’s twentieth century history…

Griest’s experiences in China do not support Norimitsu Onishi’s argument that the Chinese have a more inclusive definition of identity than the Japanese, due to China’s desire to create national unity under one cultural identity. According to Onishi, “Chinese identity has transcended from a long cultural and linguistic tradition that has been passed on to fourth-generation Chinese-American students, or the children of Chinese operating a restaurant in Lagos, Nigeria. Overseas Chinese are able to…