Deng Xiaoping

After the death of Mao, new economic policies were brought in by Deng Xiaoping, and there was more granted freedom, and the press was able to report on issues they could never report on before. Students were able to debate on things that they were never able to before in the classroom. People were able to post political writings…

Square to mark the death of Chinese leader Hu Yaobang. The students protested and demonstrated for reform against corruption and inflation, asking that the 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…

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…

In 1840 the Qing dynasty was in control of the Chinese government. China was threatened by the British and Western Barbarians. This resulted in what is known as the Opium War. The British government was exporting Opium to China. Chinese citizens were getting addicted to opium and eventually the Chinese government stopped opium import from Great Britain. This hurt the British economy and resulted in a war between the two countries. At the end of the Opium War China was forced to give up land and…

might occur. Both leaders, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, became ill around the same time. Deng Xiaoping, an army veteran, was given the lead by both men. Jiang Qing, Mao’s wife, led a group known as the Gang of Four. Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen were the other members. They began an opposition. This affected Chinese politics. Deng Xiaoping was purged after Zhou Enlai’s death by Mao. When he died, Deng took over and the Gang of Four was…

The places like in Shenzhen and Guangdong have large factories. Factories lives of migrant is very hard. The paper heavily focuses on Chinese migrant workers specially focused on female workers. It focusses the worker origin and the conflict from local workers arriving from others places. The crucial part of workers on the issues that wages is being a huge controversial. It was illegal to pay under the minimum wages. But often time many owners would do that just to save money. Even worker was…

economy was established by 1952, and was a socialist, command economy (Mitter, 2008). Started on the simple principle frequently stated by Deng Xiaoping, ‘poverty is not socialism’, China transitioned from a command economy to a hybridised, market economy from the late 1970s (Fernández, n.d.). These economic reforms can be traced back to the reinstalment of Deng Xiaoping in 1977 (Cienciala, 1999). Commencing…

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 the economy, and…

There is a longstanding notion within political science that democracy takes root and thrives where levels of economic development and education are high China however, presents itself as an anomaly if such a notion is true. China is representative of a deviant case within Comparative Politics; the theory states that as a country progresses economically, policies reform and democracy will follow. While they are often considered one of the worlds leading economy, China remains an authoritarian…

politburo by the Gang of Four in 1965, and then Wu Han was one of the first victims of the Cultural Revolution and died in prison in 1969. About the conflict between Mao and other CPC leaders, after the failure of Great Leap Forward, Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping believed that the provision of the incentive was important for economic recovery. So that, China should use the Soviet political and economic model and allow the rise of elite class of scientists, managers, engineers and technicians for…