Deng Xiaoping

principally the economic consequences of the nation’s Imperial collapse produced by European globalization that lead to Mao Zedong’s Communist revolution as well as the economic industrialisation that opened China to the world under the rule of Deng Xiaoping. Under dynastic authorities in the 18th and 19th century’s…

soldiers occupying Shanghai. The communist revolution of 1949 would force the SSE to stay closed. Following the revolution it was the People 's Republic of China’s (PRC) attitude towards anything resembling capitalism that kept the SSE from reopening. Deng Xiaoping’s began welcoming foreign investment into China’s economy with his rise to power in 1979, by 1981 China resumed trading treasury bonds. In 1984 private issuances of company stocks and corporate bonds began surfacing in Shanghai and…

experience a strong split between reform minded and conservative members, but once again not to the extent in Europe. The disparity in ideology between Gorbachev and the rest of the party was immensely stronger than that between Zhao Ziyang and Deng Xiaoping. The third point, military discipline, is also in…

people. There were so many people that there was not enough food to feed the people in China. Between 1958 and 1962, over 20 million people died of starvation. The reason why the One Child Policy started was to reduce the population growth. Deng Xiaoping tried to fix the population problem by passing the One Child Policy. In the One Child Policy if you have more than one child you will be fined up to $50,000. In 1979, there was evidence that with this policy the population growth was reducing.…

The Red Scare and The Iron Curtain, what do these two things have in common? Communism, the red scare was the fear that communism was going to penetrate the United States and the Iron curtain was a boundary during the Cold War to separate communists and non-communists. The reason for these scares and divides were because of the problems and fears associated with communism. China began to realize that and introduced capitalism. China has been making gains that got them to where they are today but…

Communism is a political and economic system meant to eliminate the capitalist inspired class system where the elite class benefits by exploiting the working class. While all communist regimes have undergone a violent Stalinist or Maoist phase in their initial attempts at a socialist government, their paths have later diverged; some states, such as China, Cuba, and the Soviet Union, have democratized and opened their doors to foreign influence and trade, while others, such as North Korea, remain…

(From Presentation20) When Mao Zedong launched the Cultural Revolution, his goals were to change the succession from Lio Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping to Ling Biao the loyal head of PLA, disciplines the huge bureaucracy: attack on leaders at all institutions, attack "the four olds," raise "revolutionary successors," and address the inequalities brought about by Liu and Deng (Presentation20). The traditional roles of women were the three obedience, having a son, lotus feet (foot binding), child…

The Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China are two paramount examples of Communism in history. Communism is the political thought that focuses on the emancipation of the proletarian class. The communist ideas officially started with Karl Marx and Fredrich Engles when the two political thinkers released The Communist Manifesto.1 In this writing, the two outlined the idea of Communism, which was the complete equality between the people, it also illustrated the trials and tribulations of…

In devising economic policy, leaders do face certain constraints in the broad historical forces that have shaped their countries’ social and institutional structures. However, it is difficult to say that leaders are solely constrained by the historical factors and cannot ignore nor harness the historical factors to achieve economic and political goals. Throughout history, we have witnessed that leaders have been able to devise and implement economic policy despite the constraint of historical…

In the recent years China has risen to become one of the largest growing world powers of the developing world. Their massive economy helped them achieve colossal strides in developing and maintaining their intense industrialization of their country. However, in recent events China has shifted some focus away from their economy to their military forces. Building up and modernizing its military might with intent on securing their interests abroad and domestically. In this paper I plan to discuss…