Deng Xiaoping

With an enormous potential problem of China becoming weak to support its own country extreme measures had to be done to help resolve this issue before it gets even worse. This all started in 1949 after more than 20 years of war, Mao Zedong decided change had to be done in China. First he decided to become a Communist nation, which means workers control the government, then he ordered people to have more children to help create more workers which then later would mean “a stronger China” lastly he…

Did Mao Zedong make China a better society economically and socially? In the year of 1921, Mao Zedong helped fund the Chinese communist party rise up. Communism is a type of government where the people are all “equal”. Everyone receives the same amount of money, food and rights. It also is a type of government where the people do not really have a say in what goes on in their country. In the beginning it sounds very reasonable and fair but the nadir of it is that Communism usually leads to…

Growing Up in the People’s Republic Weili, Ye, and Xiaodong, Ma. 2005. Growing up in The People's Republic. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. Growing up in the People’s Republic is a detailed account of two individual women’s generational struggle during the controversial periods of The Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the Cultural Fever of the 1980’s. Their case study tries to define their individual identity growing up in Communist China. Ma Xiaodong and Ye Weili’s lives allow the…

Mae Holland arrives for her first day at “the most influential company in the world”: The Circle. Mae owes her newfound position at The Circle to her old-time friend, Annie, whose belonging to the “Gang of 40” makes her one of the most influential members of the company. Established by the “Three Wise Men” , The Circle becomes the #1 company on the forefront of technological advancement. The Circle’s goal is to work towards a new era of communication and safety, what it claims is a more…

Chimamanda Adichie in her TED presentation talks about the dangers of a “single-story”, she warns us to against using a “single-story” to understand questions of identity. To understand what “single-story” is Chimamanda Adichie narrated a story when she was nineteen years old, she was leaving Nigeria to go to a university in the United States her American roommate was surprised by her because she spoken English very well. Her roommate wondered how she spoke English so well; she told her Nigeria…

The other contribution by Deng Xiaoping was a agricultural transformation. When the First Five Plan was active, the people's commune was established in rural areas for collectivization for agriculture. The people's commune was a rural organization to manage rural societies of collective farmers. Majority of people lived and worked in rural areas, but the organization didn't effect due to misguided equality(inequality). Deng Xiaoping declared the decollectivization of agriculture to transform…

However, when Deng Xiaoping became a former chairman after Mao Zedong, he changes the communist economic system and choose a capitalist economic system. Section 1 There are five mysteries of capital mentioned in the book of The Mystery of Capital which each chapters…

THE SENKAKU ISLANDS DISPUTE Overview of the Senkaku Islands Dispute The Senkaku Islands are a series of islands located in the East China Sea that are currently being controlled by Japan They have a total area of about 7 square kilometers and lie north-east of Taiwan, east of the Chinese mainland and south-west of Japan's southern-most prefecture, Okinawa. These islands are considered very important to all three countries due to their close proximity to important shipping lanes, rich grounds…

After read the story THE FOX AND THEGOAD, I’m agree the idea that look before you leap. In the story, the goat is foolish enough to believe the fox and jump down to the well without a thought. Although he is seriously thirst., he couldn’t forget to look around whether there is a pit ball. However, he is so silly that he was drowned by water and the fox escaped. The behavior of the goat is worth our deeply thought. In our daily life, there are lots of people be cheated. Those people include old…

In recent decades income inequality has become an emergent epidemic, specifically for countries experiencing rapid economic growth. Since the Mao era, China has grown increasingly susceptible to this problem as it has developed to become the second largest economy in the world. To further contextualize China’s economic growth, Wang Jisi explains, “As recently as 2001, China’s total GDP was only 12.8% of U.S GDP. In 2011, China’s GDP reached $7.3 trillion, amounting to 48.5% of U.S. GDP”…