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Throughout the next decade, Deng launched a series of economic and social reforms meant to improve the lives of Chinese citizens, including opening up China to foreign investment, decollectivizing agriculture, and allowing citizens to own businesses. He led massive economic reform within China and attempted to dissemble the communist economic structure that weighed down the nation during the Cultural
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1949: The Commies take control When Mao Zedong’s Communist Party took control of China in 1949, it inherited the most populous country on earth—over a half a billion Chinese people. This was more than triple the population of the U.S., which at the time stood at 150 million (US population in 2010 = 310 million). More is better? After a century of wars, unrest, and epidemics,China saw a population boom (helped by improved medical care and sanitation). This growth was initially greeted by leaders
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Does the film Huang tudi (Yellow Earth) offer a critique of the Communist revolution? If so where and how? Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou’s Yellow Earth is a meaningful and controversial film that highlights the young and old, realist and idealist, as well as the ideal utopia and bounded bureaucracies – touching on the notion of fate. Set in early 1939 in China, Yellow Earth follows the story of Gu Qing, a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) soldier sent out among the peasants in Northern Shaanxi to collect
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which his experience told him, was the engine of social change. (387) The Cultural Revolution, like the Hundred Flowers Campaign and the Great Leap Forward, turned out to be something he had not envisioned. Allowing for many variations, the purge rate among party officials was somewhere around 60 percent. It has been estimated that 400,000 people died as a result of maltreatment. (387) How the Cultural Revolution Unfolded From late 1965 to the summer of 1966, tensions rose between Mao’s group
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only seventeen years of age during the Cultural Revolution. He later joined the Red Guard and he was required to remove all banned books in China from library shelves, as this was an order from the Communist leader at the time, Mao. The power of the government can be witnessed, as the public is controlled of the literature they are allowed to legally read. The Cultural Revolution aimed to destroy the Western influences in the country and enhance the Chinese traditional values. Bei Dao wrote with
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produced authoritarian and single-party states | * Contenders (Left to right): Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, Stalin, Rykov, Tomsky, Bukharin * Issues affecting power struggle: - Leadership (Collective vs Single) - NEP (End vs Continue) - Revolution (Permanent vs One Country) * Methods he used to come to power (pg103): Lenin’s early death; Lenin’s Secret Testament; Lenin Enrolment; Leninist Foundations; No Clear Successor; Stalin outwitted Trotsky; Changing Politburo members; War Scare;
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a2008 GP Paper 2 AQ 12 Anna Banatvala thinks an understanding of history is essential, whereas Lee Min Yen thinks history has no value. How important is an understanding of history for you and your society, and how far has your view been challenged or confirmed by these two passages? The importance of an understanding of history is severely weakened in countries where the history is distorted. Hence, my view has been largely confirmed by Lee Min Yen , the author of passage 2. Banatvala
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world. At the time China had a literacy rate of only 3.6% while Japan had a rate of 26.3% however, during the Qing dynasty economically they were prospering and catching up with the rest of Asia. This was best shown by jack Gary’s Rebellions and revolutions where he puts a more positive spin on the Dynasty. Gray shows that GDP was growing in China from CH$113 to CH$123 in the years 1905-1910. Industrialisation was growing at 6% per year, railway mileage by 8% and foreign trade by 2.5% per annum and
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people in China who are very powerful, and they’re respected by everyone. The PD index of China is 80, and that is overlapping in real life, cause there is a big power distance in China. Rituals Mao Ze Dong said there could never be too many Chinese: human resources would be China's greatest defence in the widely predicted third world war. So the population of China rose from 540 million in 1950 to over 850 million by 1970 (fig 1). http://www.bmj.com/content/314/7095/1685.short This is high
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