Education in the People's Republic of China

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…

the most technological advanced intelligence collection capabilities compared to other countries such as China, Iran, and Russia. However, since the end of the Cold War and the global expansion of the internet, nations such as those mentioned before have amplified their intelligence capabilities. This paper will compare and contrast the intelligence organization of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Iran, and Russia. Additionally, it will be followed by evidence which will lead to…

Since the late 1970s, China has experienced unprecedented economic growth and development. Established in 1949, the People’s Republic of China, under the governance of Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) set forth to achieve national unity, social and economic change and freedom from foreign interference (Cienciala, 1999). Mao’s economy was established by 1952, and was a socialist, command economy (Mitter, 2008). Started on the simple principle frequently stated by Deng Xiaoping,…

Chinese Communist Party and later the People’s Republic of China. Mao Zedong, or Tse-tung, was born in a small, isolated village in Hunan Province on December 26th, 1893 to a wealthy peasant family. As the first son to survive infancy, his parents gave him the name Tse-tung, which means, “to shine on the east”. Mao’s name reflects his parents’ hope and desire for their son to be successful and their belief that…

revolution and the founding member of the Chinese Communist Party(CCP), Chairman Mao Zedong(毛泽东) was born. Although many of his socialist reforms resulted in failure and caused much devastation for the people of China, his legacy as a nationalist leader and the creator of an independent China still inspires post-Mao generations. Born from a peasant family, Chairman Mao understood what it was like to be in the “98 percent”. This allowed him to make a majority of the population feel connected with…

TO THE COUNTRIES UNDER CONSIDERATION From 1994-1992 Albania had a government structure which had characteristics features of the rule in China, Soviet Union and Germany. The country was then known as the People's Socialist Republic of China(1976-1991) and the form of government existing in the nation was Single-Party Marxist-Leninist Hoxhaist Socialistic republic under totalitarian dictatorship. Albania's rulers implemented elements of the Stalinist economic system in their own economy by…

themselves ‘as different from men as earth was from heaven’, but as half of China holding up or constituting the other ‘half of heaven’” (Croll, 2). Today, the Chinese society alongside with the rest of the world are living in a time where women are not restricted from getting a proper education, living independently, having a good career, and to speak our minds; however, this was not always true in the past. Previously in early China, women were treated like objects, “Their feet were bound,…

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’…

Ba Jin Ba Jin was born November 25, 1904 in Chengdu, China and he died October 17 2005. He is an anarchist writer whose novels and short stories achieved widespread popularity in the 1930s and ’40s. aving been born to a wealthy gentry family, Li Yaotang received a traditional Confucian education as well as training in modern foreign languages and literatures. While in school, he developed socialist convictions and an interest in writing. He became an anarchist in the mid-1920s. After two years…

countries were still rebuilding after World War II; China in specific was recovering from subsequent wars. They…