Kuomintang

In this essay, I will focus on the community development in the Taiwan situation by using the Sunflower student movement. In the beginning part, I will introduce the background of the incident and the role of different stakeholders. Then, I will focus on talking about the short-term and long-term impact towards the communities and finally I will share my opinion towards this incident. Introduction of the Sunflower student movement In the March 18, the university students have occupied the…

Zedong was a Communist leader of the Chinese Communist Party from its founding until his death in 1976. He was the first chairman of the People’s Republic of China, the one-party state founded in 1949 after the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang. In 1958, he launched his campaign, the “Great Leap Forward,” to industrialize the Chinese economy. This led quite oppositely to widespread famine and unrest. Mao initiated the Cultural Revolution in 1966, with a goal to destroy the ‘impure’…

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…

This essay will be focused on the development of China-Taiwan relations from 1987 to the present and some main factors affecting the development of the two in the near future. China is the People’s Republic of China (PRC) which is governed by the China Communist Party and Taiwan is the Republic of China (ROC) which practice a democratic system. There are different aspects of the developments, including political, diplomatic, military, economic and social, which will interact with each other.…

Another important aspect of globalization is immigration. Another major change brought about by globalization is immigration. As advances in transportation made the movement of goods easier, they also made the movement of labor easier. Immigrants make up a small, yet increasingly significant portion of the population, increasing from 2.6% in 1960 to 3.3% in 2015 (“International Migrants by Country of Destination, 1960-2015”). Nearly two thirds of them emigrated to Europe and Asia in 2015, while…

After World War One, there were many types of new government that emerged from the chaos of the war. But, the two major governments were dictatorships and democracies. In Germany, Italy and Russia, the dictators Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and Josef Stalin came to power after the fall of democracy in each country. There were many reasons for the change to dictatorship, including inflation, unemployment and a lost sense of trust in democracy. These dictatorships ruled for many years during the…

been sent to help the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) become organized and carry out the communist revolution, but the Soviet communist advisors’ advice almost led to the complete and utter destruction of the Chinese communists at the hands of the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist Party, hereafter KMT). Another issue between the two parties was the fact that Mao based his communism on the idea of the mobilization of the Chinese peasantry, which was not what Stalin advocated, the traditional…

Traditional Asian society is considered to be the time prior to the 1700s. In the years following that time, different influences have transformed these traditional societies into the modern states that they are today. These influences have changed the way that Asian societies function and these changes also vary by the region of Asia. The government, religion, and family all influenced the way that Asia was shaped into the modern state that it is today. The government clearly had a role on…

Over the years, globalisation has started to have a massive impact on countries, industries and businesses. Globalisation has affected the world and it is changing how countries do business, how technology is seen and social lifestyles. Globalisation was first employed in the Oxford dictionary in the 1930s, at the time the word was used by economists and social scientists. The word is now commonly used and now we have people who even disagree or agree with globalisation. In this essay, I will be…

The doctor had said that her mother had died of cerebral aneurysm pg.19. Her mother went to Kweilin because her husband though it would be safe for them and their two babies. He was an officer with Kuomintang pg.21. When her mother thought of the joy luck club she already knew the lady 's she wanted in it. Each week one of them would host a party to raise money and their spirits pg.23. Each week they would pretend it 's a new year and forget past wrongs. Her mother always ended the stories on a…