Deng Xiaoping

In China, some of the worlds harshest, most cruel laws are in place. From population control to torturing its citizens, over the last four decades China has controlled every aspect of its citizens’ lives. Chinas brutal One-Child Policy has been in play since 1978, the policy restricts couples from having more than one child. In the book Among the Enemy, 2 main characters, Percius and Matthias experience first-hand the many hardships those in China face today. In 1949, a Chinese emperor by the…

Modernity, the quality of being modern, is inevitable as time only moves forward. However, modernism does not capture the time period most present, but instead captures the late 19th to early 20th century when the development of modern industrial societies and cities boomed in the West. Modernization in Western countries led to a rejection in traditional ways of thinking and religious belief as science and technology advanced. In China, the path of modernizing was not as simple; it was a ripple…

This historical study will define the underlying events that define the economic and military unilateralism of the American superpower in the later half of the 20th century. The wartime policies of president Johnson define shift in the monolithic military power of the United States in the 1960s as a direct result of Cold War ideology with the U.S.S.R. and China. America’s entrance into the Vietnam War defined Johnson’s pro-war ideology, which sought to prevent the domino effect of communism in…

This essay seeks to provide an answer to the question, is Chinese foreign policy exceptional. There are convincing arguments linking Chinese society with the notion of exceptionalism. Foot (2010, 129) points to claims of exceptionalist tendencies based on a long history of civilisation, specifically the concept of honour permeating through ideas of the tribute system, and the strong Han cultural identity. The case for an exceptional Chinese foreign policy lies with this use and potential misuse…

On July 26 2015, 31-year old Xiang Liujuan and her young son were riding an escalator in AZG Mall in central China when the floorboards collapsed as they reached the top of the escalator. Xiang pushed her son out of harm's way before the floorboards completely gave way, pulling her in to the escalator shaft. She held on for a few seconds as two mall employees desperately tried to pull her out, before she was sucked in to the abyss by the escalator machinery. Despite a four hour rescue operation,…

With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the forty five year long Cold War between America and the Soviet Union had ended. This pivotal event was a bellwether for change throughout the globe, with communist states falling like dominoes and ushering in a new era of the exceptional, indispensable US’ unipolar hegemony characterized by stability, the proliferation of interconnected market economies, and the spread of democracy -- all leading to eternal peace among nations. At least, that is what many of…

Scientist and economist Thomas Malthus collected data that demonstrated that a population typically grows exponentially, while resources usually grow logistically, increasing slowly. Malthus decided that based on his observations about the growth patterns of humans and their resources, humans would overshoot their food or resources. When this happened, he stated that there would be a catastrophic disturbance and excessive dieback within the human population would occur to compensate for…

creature that only destroys lives, dreams, and hope and brought the country to the brink of collapse. In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party’s official evaluations of Chairman Mao have become more and more positive. Under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, in a party resolution adopted in June 1981, Mao was considered “a great Marxist as well as a great proletarian revolutionary, strategist, and theorist.” Although he made serious mistakes during the Cultural Revolution, the party decided…

In 1979 in an attempt to restrict population growth, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping introduced a policy which limited Chinese families to only one child. “Since male heirs were preferred to female heirs the children directly impacted by the law were mostly female”(One Child policy). The law brought out a lot of questionable activity…

included regulations regarding the size of the family and late marriages (Hesketh). Late marriages where considered marriages between a women who were 23 years old or older and men who were 25 years old or older. The policy was first presented by Deng Xiaoping in 1979, but it did not come into effect till1980 (Connett). The one-child policy was a result of Mao Zedong’s Great Leap Forward plan, which was a plan established in 1958 to modernize China’s society. Zedong tried to modernize China’s…