Kuomintang

into the family only to be shackled by the wealthy family’s oppression and abuse. Many other peasants experienced similar or even worse fates, and Fanshen shows why the peasants would harbour resent against the many gentries who represented the Kuomintang Party. Hinton was a foreign English professor who was teaching in China at that time. He wasn’t a fellow villager, nonetheless a member of the secret Communist Party that was established to resist the Japanese. Therefore, his access to…

June 4, 1989 is a day remembered in numerous parts around the world as a dark and somber tragedy that disregarded the most basic values of freedom and democracy. Yet this event is often viewed in the narrow lens as a failure of an attempt to democratize. Through this lens, the historical contexts and following consequences are severely oversimplified, which results in an inadequate and biased perspective of the event itself. The China today is still shaped and molded by the memories of the…

American Sovereignty in the 21st Century The Declaration of Independence makes the agreement, “That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance” (Jefferson 265). Thusly the Declaration of Independence is consider by most to be the foundational statement of national sovereignty by The Thirteen American colonies and now the United States. The Declaration of Independence is a formal statement by the thirteen American…

leader said that the lessons he learned from The Art of War proved to be useful for defeating Chiang Kai-Shek’s nationalist forces when Chinese Civit War started. The war was faught between the nationalist governemnt of China which is also called Kuomintang(KMT) and The Communist Party of China(CPC). “All warfare is based on deception”(Art of War,chapter…

The Case of Community Care Centre Plan The emergence and development of the community care centre Background The Community Care Centre Plan (CCCP) was implemented in Taiwan because of the social conditions and pressures of the ageing population in the 1990s. The CCCP was based on the unique social conditions in Taiwan, namely the Community Development Associations (CDAs) system. In Taiwan, CDAs are widespread grassroots organizations. Most CDAs were established by the Community Development Plan,…

In the early to mid 1900’s, the middle and lower class faced many economical hardships. The country as a whole experienced humiliation and havoc by the influence of foreign powers. When Kuomintang government, the Nationalist Party, came into power, they were supposed to solve domestic problems and foreign problems, such as poor factory conditions, peasant poverty, and a war with Japan. The KMT government failed to fulfill these expectations…

What is Socialism? Socialism is defined as public control of property and resources. Society should produce goods and own property for the good of its own members, and if someone helped make a good, they should be allowed to share in it. The object of production should be to meet human needs. Money would disappear, everyone would take freely in what is produced, and work would be voluntary and as needed. Socialism is a direct opposite to capitalism’s ideas of individuals developing to the best…

Since the standardization of Mao Tse-Tung's Chinese Comrade Gathering in 1949, China has encountered heaps of progressive changes in their social, monetary, social and political condition. The motion picture "To Live" essentially is a film about a family's experience amid this hard and testing time. "To Live" expands and expresses the different progressive stages through the 40s ,50s, and the 60s Chinese important changes. This film represents four many years of China's history which…

named “Magnum Photos” along with Robert Capa and a few other photographers. In 1948 Cartier-Bresson travels to India for three years in order to document the death of Gandhi (“Henri”). He also traveled to China to document the last six months of the Kuomintang rule and the first six months of the people’s republic. He also traveled to Indonesia to document its independence (“Biography”). In 1954, Cartier-Bresson becomes the first photographer to enter USSR since the beginning of the cold war. In…

Many restrictions on travel and trade were lifted. This would become know as “Ping Pong” diplomacy. It was so named after the United States ping-pong team was invited to the Chinese capital in April of 1971. During their visit the group was treated as though they were dignitaries or royalty. They played matches against the Chinese team but also visited important landmarks through out China. The American delegation was accompanied by members of the press and was closely watched by the American…