Republic of China

Cultural Revolution as their golden years. This essay will focus on how this group of Chinese people rationalizes their desire for things in China to go back to the way they were during the Cultural Revolution. This obsession with the Maoist era is not something that came about for no reason. This is what Chairman…

In American people are accustomed to a certain way of life. Most do not fear having to be told what to do with their life or with matters of personal and individual privacy. However, China has a different life-style. A lifestyle I had only heard at one point in my life in passing or seen briefly on the television on in movies. I would have never known how life was actually like if I did not have the privilege of working side-by-side at Citizens Bank and Trust with a woman named Liping Cai.…

Both having a strict communist past, Russia and China can be considered Comrades. While the two share similar economic policies and political ideals, they have gone on separate paths since the late 20th century, some changes being more capitalism and others not. Government influence is in essentially all markets, and the fiscal policies set by Russia and China and patron-clientelism are no exception. Fiscal policies dictate how much the government spends and how much it taxes. A key difference…

he events that unfolded throughout the Great Proletarian Chinese Cultural Revolution, from 1966 1967, fundamentally arose Mao’s fundamental policy of permanent revolution, and the political status of China after the communist seizure of power in 1949. Furthermore, there were four key occurrences that contributed directly to the introduction of the Revolution. In addition to the long term political cause that was the establishment of Mao’s totalitarian control from 1948, a further indirect causes…

Overflowing with dramatization, grievousness and loathsomeness, this phenomenal family story of life and death mirrors China 's century of turbulence through the eyes of Jung Chang 's three generations of family: her grandmother, mother and inevitably a life account of herself. In this book, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, we get to see the painful effects of Mao’s personality cult, and his painful policies. At age of two, Yu-fang, Jung Chang 's grandmother had her feet bounded. She was…

never met before interact with it is quite amazing. However, by putting restrictions on what users can post online limits the potential of what a person can achieve. China is a country that has dealt with government restrictions for a long time. The ability to be individualistic online is limited when in a communist country like China. In my first article, Internet Café Fire Blamed on Govt. Crackdown, it talked about the dangers involved in running and participating in illegal internet café.…

The East Asian Miracle comprises of several decades of rapid economic growth, social development, and poverty reduction in East Asian countries. Good governance is a central component of the East Asian capitalism, and is probably one of the most important contributors to the success of East Asian countries (McNicoll, 2006). There is a constant debate between the government and market on the behavior of consumers and workers. One side emphasizes the important of state interventions that affect…

which explores economic country developments with industrial pollution. Canfei He, Zhiji Huang, and Xinyue Ye (2013) compared the development between the economy in China versus the pollution produced in China. Xiao-hui Liu, Wei-liang Wang, Shao-yong Lu, Yu-fan Wang, and Zongming Ren (2016) found the results of GDP in Zaozhuang, China by investigating…

They Chose China was a documentary about the choices and lives of twenty-one soldiers that decided to live in China after the end of the Korean War. The soldiers’ decisions were affected by many factors such as an interest in socialism or a call for peace. However, the majority of the men were influenced by the discrimination they felt at home, especially due to fear sparked by the Cold War. To most in the United States, the armistice of the Korean War came as a surprise. Cold War tensions were…

it can handle. When China went under new leadership in the late nineteen forties, they even tried to make their population grow quicker (BGE). They called this program the “Great Leap Forward”. The only thing this leap propelled forward to was a time of immense poverty and famine(BGE). Was China’s one child policy a future proof idea? The one child policy in China was a helpful idea for reasons that will be explained in this essay. The one child policy was helpful to China because it slowed…