Deng Xiaoping

China, a demographical study INTRODUCTION The one child policy in China has had a massive effect on a huge amount of people since its introduction by authorities, and then leader Deng Xiaoping, in 1979 until it was officially phased out in 2015. It was made to be a short term measure which looked to create a culture of small families. Following the Cultural Revolution in China from 1966 to 1976, China’s economy stagnated. During that time, China housed a quarter of the world’s population with…

of the characters around the main character, we can see how unjust of the officers to pick on Mr. Chiu and accuse him wrongfully. “This charge may strike the American reader as ridiculous, but in a Communist nation such as China—and China under Deng Xiaoping, who effectively ruled from 1978 through the early 1990s, has been characterized as a dictatorship—the politics of the matter can be everything, and even a false charge can bring severe consequences for the accused” (Sara Constantakis). The…

dismissed from his rank as the State Chairman of RPC, although he still kept his title as the Chairman of the CCP. In order to combat economic disorder caused by the Great Leap Program, Liu Shaoqi attained his rank as the new Chairman of RPC while Deng Xiaoping became the CPC General Secretary. In order to reassert his authority after the failure of the Great Leap Forward, Mao Zedong seeked to have elements of Chinese culture and identity destroyed during the Cultural Revolution to create a new…

were further encouraged by Mao Zedong’s poster urging the Red Guards to “Bombard the Headquarters!” Since then, the number of attack on political figures had increased in the last two months of 1966. Among them were president Liu Shaoqi, his ally Deng Xiaoping and the former Five Man Group spokesman Peng Zhen. Former defence chief Peng Dehuai, who was purged in 1959 for criticising Mao, was now arrested, beaten and subjected to several public ‘struggle sessions’. However, Liu was the most…

The political and economic turmoil facing China in the decades leading up to the reform era created a climate that lent itself to the essential economic reforms. Sharing much of the Stalinist vision of rapid industrialisation, Mao Zedong invented his own version of a more radical approach to modernisation. Mao’s original plan of a gradual transition to socialism was abandoned in favour of the completion by 1956 of a ‘socialist transformation of agriculture, industry, commerce and handicrafts’…

Thesis: Political liberalization and democracy do not always follow capitalistic reforms. One way to describe China’s political culture is a subject society. Chinese society and politics are shaped by the communist party and elites, and the Chinese people are unable to change this. In the book, the author describes news blackouts which prohibit any covering of the specified topic. In fact, around the anniversary of Tiananmen Square, the covering of any bad news is prohibited, and the government…

The article was written by Yasheng Huang in 2012. The writer shows how Chinese economy started. According to him, in order to understand how Chinese economy started it is important to understand it rural development. China growth started with rural entrepreneurship and significant reforms but because of change in leadership in 1990s such reforms were reversed and these has affected the private sector. He further said that the rural industry started with the coming of Township and village…

What determines an individual 's deservingness to be labeled as a Communist? Is it his or her actions, status, education, mindset, or something entirely different? According to Liu Shaoqi, Chinese Communist Party theoretician and Mao Zedong 's successor as the head of state, it is not a singular aspect of an individual 's life that will make them a true Communist, but a combination of them all. In his 1939 speech, How To Be a Good Communist, Liu outlines the main actions, practices, and…

Creative Component: The Life and Legacy of Chairman Mao Track Listing with descriptions 1. Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes: In many ways, the song Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes can be representative of one of Mao’s greatest accomplishments: the Long March. The mood of the song is upbeat compared to the grueling Long March. However, the lyrics and title provide many similarities to the March. The first two lines of the song are, “I 'm gonna fight 'em off A seven nation army…

Liang Heng, the author of “Son of the Revolution”, spent almost his whole life under the Communist Party of China, and he was able to share all the details of his difficult life with the world through writing with the help of his wife, and co author, Judith Shapiro. Liang Heng’s life was filled with suffering from sacrifices he and his family made to please the Party. After making it through life with the cap of being the son of a rightist and having a father accused of having capitalist…