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with economic and social problems in part to the failure of Communism. The Communist Party still stayed strong throughout these crises although they resulted in more deaths than the Soviet Union and the Nazi regime’s atrocities. The party elected Deng Xiaoping, who was left to lift the country back up. Xiaoping launched an economic reform program which used capitalist ideas such as material prosperity, contradicting the Communist views of state ownership. It lessened government intervention in…

Japan’s defeat in WW2. The Chinese Communist Party established the People’s Republic of China. This caused the relationship between Chinese peasants and the Chinese Communist Party to change greatly. The peasant class developed a nationalistic movement for themselves, peasants gained social equality and the anti-Japanese beliefs grew. In this time period, the Japanese peasant class fought for nationalistic movements. Mao Zedong, a rising leader of the Chinese Communist Party (Doc. 1), talks…

On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the creation of the People’s Republic of China. China followed the Soviet model of government from 1949 to 1959, but the Soviet model relied heavily on a large industrial population. China did not have a large industrial population (Stanton 2016). Instead, Mao made the foundation of his revolution the peasants (Marlay and Neher 1999). Mao instigated a reworking of Chinese society during his rule, as Mao strictly believed that change must be the constant…

practices, such as women as concubines, arranged marriages, and the marrying of minor girls were abolished during the Cultural Revolution. Women were able to work outside of the home and some women were able to assume leadership positions within the Communist Party. Contemporary Chinese women have access to higher education and have assumed leadership positions within government and the private sector. Despite the increased opportunities, women are still often defined by the roles of wife and…

Griest’s experiences in China do not support Norimitsu Onishi’s argument that the Chinese have a more inclusive definition of identity than the Japanese, due to China’s desire to create national unity under one cultural identity. According to Onishi, “Chinese identity has transcended from a long cultural and linguistic tradition that has been passed on to fourth-generation Chinese-American students, or the children of Chinese operating a restaurant in Lagos, Nigeria. Overseas Chinese are able to…

At the late of 20th century, Mao Zedong, communist leader, organized the Cultural Revolution in order to assert the authority over the Chinese government. He declared that the nation’s youth to purify the “impure” elements of Chinese society and to revive the revolutionary spirit that lead to victory in the civil war 20 decades earlier in order to restore the China’s reputation and power. However, his leadership position in government as in the Soviet Union was weakened and failed his Great Leap…

China has been running the world's largest and most successful eugenics program for more than thirty years, driving China's ever-faster rise as the global superpower. I worry that this poses some existential threat to Western civilization. Yet the most likely result is that America and Europe linger around a few hundred more years as also-rans on the world-historical stage, nursing our anti-hereditarian political correctness to the bitter end. When I learned about Chinese eugenics this summer, I…

Yaobang Hu was an instrumental figure in inspiring the student protesters in China. He was able to rise through the ranks of the Chinese government and at one point was the General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, the Party’s top position. Hu advocated for greater freedoms in choosing occupations, more liberalized economic policies, and a halt to corruption within the government. It was Hu’s ideas that resonated with the Chinese protesters. However, Hu’s Western-like ideas were seen as…

Chinese society did get better economically but it did get better socially under Mao rules. The reason why chinese society did get better under Mao rules can be found in document 2. This document is created by Chow Aingil In china 1985, and this is written for people that are interested in china; to talk about marriages in China. This document is says “ One of the dramatic changes that took place in 1959, was mao’s “Marriage Reform Law” which banned forced or arranged marriages. I wept bitterly…

Although quiet similar to the divine right rule, there are some factors which distinguish the Mandate of Heaven from the divine rights rule. It mainly differed on these key factors: • Unlike Christianity, which is monotheistic Chinese religion, is polytheistic. There were several minor Gods, heroes and other mythical figures that Chinese believed in unlike just a single omnipotent figure called God. For this reason the Mandate of Heaven was granted by a supernatural community and not just a…