Economy of the People's Republic of China

The bedrock of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) carries the firm imprint of its architect, Mao Zedong. Revered to the extent of a semi-divine individual, he ruled with irrefutable authority and possessed an extraordinary cult of personality. The mark of the Great Helmsman, which was altogether political, cultural, and ideological, had dramatically defined the country. However, his tenure was contingent on his own mortality. Mao’s death in 1976 spurned a political crisis in which the question…

The internationalization of Chinese higher education can be traced back almost two centuries. In 1840, following the defeat of the Chinese Empire in the Opium Wars, China was introduced to the concept of modern western education. Chinese higher education started in 1912, with one university and 94 professional staffs. Involvementing inthe World War II against Japan with Japan slowed the development of higher education institutions until 1949. By 1949, there were only 205 colleges and…

charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty. ' ' ( 'Manifesto of the Communist Party ' ') this is true hypocrisy, every Communist state has read this manifesto and yet it in Communist China they have hundreds maybe even thousands of child laborers under their wing and of course they do this because it is the cheaper alternative compared to…

Before 1911, China was still under absolute monarchy, which was Qing Dynasty. The economy during that period was agricultural based, not by trading or colonies. Unlike Western countries, there was no industrial revolution happened in China. Due to the closed economy (or self seclusion), China did not receive any new technology to improve the developments in many areas. There are three characteristics of the traditional Chinese economy before 1911. The first characteristic is highly productive…

contrast the cultural and societal changes that occurred during the Cold War Era in Russia and China. Make sure to discuss repressive agendas that was portrayed the Communist governments in China and Russia; any restrictions in the media and literature; and any societal changes that includes higher education, the role of men and women in Russia and China. Was equality even possible in Russia and China during the Cold War Era? Explain. BE VERY THOROUGH IN THIS ESSAY. Please post your synopsis…

The economic development in Taiwan and China between the 1980s and 1990s steps up the sequence of events that leads to either the rise of democracy in one country or the survival of the one party system based on the wealth of everyone. In this paper, I will argue that between the 1980s and 1990s in Taiwan, there was economic development that leads to the rise of fluid democracy based on the power theory while in China during the same time period, the rise in economic development doesn’t lead to…

aspects. When referring to the impact of globalisation on a country the influence on society, economy, politics and even security tend to be intertwined and overlap, as each seems to have a subsequent effect on the other. My main focus in this essay being towards the economy. Firstly I need to address the problem of the different views of globalisation as there is a Eurocentric…

(Chang, 2008). The law has also been found to encourage discriminative pregnancies. The number of female kids in the nation has witnessed a sharp decrease over the past few decades of the implementation of the policy. It has been a common believe in China that male child is an important resource to the society. It is such believes which have led to the abortion of many female pregnancies. This is a great risk to the sustainable social well being of the Chinese community. It has in fact been…

In 1958, Mao employed tactics in an attempt to “modernise” China and create an economy that rivalled America’s. ‘The Great Leap Forward’ focussed heavily on factories and boosting the economy and, due to this, agriculture fell by the wayside. Li states that “By the time I was born three years of Mao’s Great Leap Forward and bad weather had resulted in one of the greatest famines…

years, China has developed from a weak economy, and an impoverished society, to the world’s second largest economy by nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the largest by purchasing power parity. With a GDP recorded in 2014 to be worth 10360.10 billion US dollars that represents 16.71% of the world’s economy, China has earned its place as a member of BRICS - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South America – a term devised by O’Neil for five of the world’s fasted and largest emerging economies.…