GIS 3117 Modern China Spring, 2014 Dr. Amy Y. Situ-Liu (Please use Blackboard internal email for your communication with the instructor. In case of an emergency that prevents you from accessing to your computer, please leave your voice mail at 652-4314, and then email me afterward) Orientation: Location: Textbooks (required): China Since 1949 By Linda Benson, Longman, 2nd edition, 2011 China: The Balance Sheet – What the World Needs to Know About the
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Education in the People's Republic of China is a state-run system of public education run by the Ministry of Education. All citizens must attend school for at least nine years. The government provides primary education for six years, starting at age six or seven, followed by six years of secondary education for ages 12 to 18. Some provinces may have five years of primary school but four years for middle school. There are three years of middle school and three years of high school. The Ministry of
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Globalization refers to the development of an integrated world economy, exchange of cultural views, thoughts, and products (Wikipedia, 2013). Pologeorgis (2012) states that, essentially globalization began with the exploration and settlement of new lands. Communication and transportation advances have aided in this process. Two non-Western countries that have been impacted by globalization are India and China. India opened its doors to globalization during the nineteen nineties following
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People Nationality: Noun and adjective--Chinese (singular and plural). Population (July 2011 est.): 1,336,718,015. Population growth rate (2011 est.): 0.593%. Health (2010 est.): Infant mortality rate--16.06 deaths/1,000 live births. Life expectancy--74.68 years (overall); 72.68 years for males, 76.94 years for females. Ethnic groups (2000 census): Han Chinese 91.5%; Zhuang, Manchu, Hui, Miao, Uighur, Tujia, Yi, Mongol, Tibetan, Buyi, Dong, Yao, Korean, and other nationalities 8.5%. Religions
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------------------------------------------------- Generations of Chinese leadership From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia People's Republic of China | | This article is part of the series: Politics and government of China | Ideology[show] | Constitution[show] | Communist Party[show] | Legislature[show] | Executive[show] | United Front[show] | Military[show] | Judiciary[show] | Propaganda[show] | Law[show] | Other issues[show] | * Other countries * Atlas Politics
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In the article China After the Reform Era, Carl Minzner explains how China has progressed politically through the years. From adopting a one-man lead (dictatorship) to presently adopting the communist style of politics. China has come a long way when it comes to changing its policies and the way its runs its country. Carl Minzner, main thesis states that “CCP leaders have eroded the late-twentieth-century bedrock on which China’s success has been built. Rather than serving as the poster child for
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Yuchen Xiao Comp 099 Critical Essay #1 February 8,2016 Language Culture Min-Zhan Lu in “From Silence to Words,” describe the struggle she faced speaking english when she grew up in China, and how she learn English under China Culture Revolution. She was so upset that she can not use english at school, and she feels she cannot write without the influences of her language and culture at home. Lu believe that one’s writing will not influenced by the outside world, because the opinion must be
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1885 1894 1898 1900 1905 1911 Self-Strengthening Movement Sino-French War over Vietnam Sino-Japanese War over Korea Kang Youwei’s 100 Days Reform Boxer Uprising Sun Yat-sen forms Revolutionary Alliance Republican Revolution 1912-1949 Republic of China Yuan Shikai Presidency 1913 1915 1916 Yuan establishes military dictatorship Yuan imperial restoration Civil War 1916-26 1919 1921 1922 Warlord period May 4th Incident Founding of Chinese Communist Party
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at the expense of the peasants by implementing the Five Year Plans and Collectivization. Political problems included the need to fully establish the one-party state, to increase his own control of the party and control of all aspects of social and cultural life to ensure the population served the needs of the state. Policies to achieve this included purges of the party and other potential opponents, using coercion to control the population at large, issuing a new constitution in 1936, using the party
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Since china is seeing a rapid economic development in the past few decades, we have also heard about the environmental and other issues related to the development of the country. Since I came to china for study, I got the opportunity to learn more about the success of china’s economic development as well as the negative externalities of the development and also the problem related to higher population. I have also learned about Chinese culture, language, the interesting dynasties (kingdoms) and the
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