People's Republic

With regard to Chinese culture and beliefs, rapid fundamental change was not anticipated by the people of Shanghai after the Communist Party of China (CPC), led by Mao Zedong, defeated the Chinese Nationalist Party, also referred to as the Kuomintang (KMT), on October 1, 1949. However, significant adjustments were made to once the CPC took power. The book, Year of Red Dust: Stories of Shanghai, by Qiu Xiaolong, is a collection of fictional stories that illustrate the daily lives of the Chinese…

How would it feel like to have three enemies surround you at once? In 1931, after the Japanese invaded Manchuria, the government of the Republic of China had to face three issues- Japanese invasion, warlord insurrection, and the Communist uprisings. The Nationalists holding power cooperated with the Communist to kick out the Japanese. After successfully defeating the Japanese, the two parties continued its Civil War with the Communist gaining victory. Now holding power, the Communist made many…

Just over a few decades ago, China, South Korea and Singapore were among the poorest with underdeveloped, weak economies. However, these economies were able to grow rapidly and successfully as they were under the authoritarian regimes during their period of growth. Now, the question is: How has authoritarianism helped these states in achieving economic growth? Political stability is one of the most significant authoritarian advantages to economic growth because it allows leaders to come up with…

HIST1005 Asia in the World Professor Franziska Seraphim/ Discussion Leader Lia Atanat OCE Assignment IV Zhangyang Wei “The anti-Party, anti-socialist Rightists might be fully exposed, refuted, overthrown and fully discredited and their influence eliminated. At the same time, they should be given a chance to turn a new leaf.” -the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, the Sixteen Points, 1966 -Picture from 1960 ANPO Movement The visual and textual sources that I have chosen…

Revolutions occur due to political, social, and economic changes being sought after. The French Revolution of 1798 and the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1927 are examples of this. The French Revolution was caused by unequal taxing and the Enlightenment ideas spreading. The Chinese Revolution was caused by the slaughter of a political party and the protection of the peasants by the communists. The two revolutions were similar in that they resulted in execution programs, however France developed…

Mao Zedong gained power when china had a bad time and he took the advantage .He leaded china from 1949 to the day of his death which was in 1976 .Communist is a society where people in property is publicly owned and they get paid according of what they can do . Mao Zedong did make a better society economically better because he opened up doors for the lower class and he tried to help those in need.Mao Zedong didn’t make China socially better because he didn’t allow people to express who they…

After the communist takeover in 1949, China was a new country and at peace within its borders (365). As their stability rose, China decided to take part in the Korean War to aid their communist neighbor North Korea. But China was not as stable as it seemed and instead put the life of young Yu Yuan in danger. The title of Yu Yaun’s story is, War Trash. Jin’s character Yaun experienced the war through the eyes of a Chinese soldier and a captured POW. He experienced China in the perspective of good…

Foreign relations throughout much of China’s history have been dominated by the idea among many Chinese intellectuals and government officials that China was culturally superior to other nations and that China was a self- sufficient state with no need to trade for resources. This attitude led rise to the tributary system when dealing with foreign nations that put China as the superior and the foreign states that it interacted with as the inferior. This system had dictated China’s foreign…

In recent Chinese and Japanese history, the period that was the most important for the development of ethnic relations were different. In China, before 1949, the country was in turmoil where after the 1911 revolution that overthrown the imperial family there was the period of warring states period between the Chinese warlords, foreign invasion from Japan and the civil war between the CCP and the KMT. The ethnic relations were not really at the top of the national agenda when all these chaos were…

The opening line of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto claims that communism is a specter haunting Europe. This specter, however, was lively, not only in global history, but in literature. As communism took root in Russia and continued into Eastern Europe, allusions to communism became more present in literary works, not only from intellectuals in those areas, but Western intellectuals as well. Czeslaw Milosz, a Polish intellectual, claims that this increase in communist nations is a natural…