Economic reform in the People's Republic of China

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…

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…

No one foresaw the radical changes that would be made in post-Mao China under the rule of Deng Xiaoping. The once removed CPC official took his position as Supreme Leader of China at the age of 77. However the changes that were seen in his next 20 years of office would be more radical than any leader of China before him. Deng was a follower of his predecessor and mentor Zhou Enlai, and with his coming of office announced that China was adapting the Four Modernizations – agriculture, industry,…

founding of the People’s Republic of China in that same year. In 1950 China was completely in shambles due to the years of war against Japan that had destroyed all its infrastructure, farms and factories which left many people without jobs and food. While the Chinese Communist Party was in its first six years of power it made a lot of changes and made the most comprehensive land reform in all of history. Mao Zedong the leader of the Chinese Communist Party had a very large goal for China and I…

between the Kuomintang (KMT) of the Republic of China and the Communist Party of China (CPC) from 1927 to 1950 involved lengthy battle between capitalist and communist forces. The KMT often relied on “modernization” in a primarily urban focus in contrast to the CPC’s focus on galvanizing the peasant classes in the rural areas of China. Under the leadership of Mao, the peasant classes were far more numerous and impoverished…

under the post-Stalin Nikita Khrushchev’s leadership. In spite of Khrushchev’s downfall in 1965, the Chinese rejected any possibility of accommodation with the Soviet Union, meanwhile domestically pursuing a reversal of professionalization of the People’s Liberation Army to support its politicization doctrine. The major connection of these two policies exists in the ideological fissures derived from the late 1950s between the Chinese chairman Mao Zedong and the Soviet leader Khrushchev. A series…

Beijing Consensus At the beginning of the 20th century, the Europe found itself at the crossroads; socially, the Europe still had its feet in a medieval class dominated society, while technologically it was becoming the wonder of the world. The previous century was a witness to unprecedented, and never seen before transformation, the once agrarian European society altered itself into industrial culture. The social injustice and exploitation caused by the uprooted lives, in the end was misused by…

The interwar period of 1919-1939 had economic disruptions that led to unstable political conditions during transformations that were occurring in Japan, China, Mexico, Turkey and Iran. Of all these countries Japan stands out as executing the most successful transformation due to aggressive nationalism that helped it achieve expansion into China as well as the ability to create an empire during this period. Other countries like China and Mexico were less successful because of struggles to…

discussed social and economic development. Nowadays, most countries in the world have social security system. Not only do academicians and civil servants take it into account, but also ordinary citizens place considerable emphasis on the…

Mao Tse-Tung, influenced the People’s Republic of China and helped to end the Republic Period by leading in the Chinese Rebellion. However, Mao Zedong was not a beneficial leader. He was rather detrimental as is evident through the social, political, and cultural changes of China during this time period. While historians argue that Mao Zedong was one of the most destructive rulers of history, loyal Chinese and other historians argue that Mao Zedong helped improve China due to his leadership in…