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Percy Craddock, British Ambassador to China, to pass on to Premier Zhao Ziyang. The letter consented to explore Chinese proposals for Hong Kong’s administration. “In this first breakthrough, the British found an effective method to push forward the talks with the Chinese, through communications between the top leaders. By adding a channel of communication above the negotiating table, the British found a shortcut to win Chinese concessions by directly appealing to the people who had the final say

and innovating under heavy pressure. After Xi came to power, He has made significant changes. He reorganized China’s military and schemed a campaign against corruption. From all the signs, he is considered the most powerful man after Mao and Deng. Mao and Deng had absolute power during

This rise of Mao as seen through such events, foreshadowed the official beginning of the Cultural Revolution in May 1966. Mao’s famous swim in the Yangtxe river in July that year, was covered massively by press and the act was a piece of political theatre that had been specifically designed to prove that he was strong and fit to rule China. This is an obvious display of the propaganda Mao used in his pursuit of restoring his rule and gaining power. Despite his incentives for beginning the Cultural

Written Summary of Group 4 Presentation The Summary of Document 8.2 Brief Introduction: Document 8.2 is the first four sections of “Mao Zedong’s Report on an Investigation of Peasant Movement in Hunan”, which was written by Mao Zedong when he visited Hunan province in 1927. In this document, from personal perspective, Mao argued the importance of the peasant issues, then described how the peasant associations became organized, how the peasants fought with the local tyrants and gentry, and how they

Conference. Mao won this confrontation, labeled Peng as a leader of an "anti-Party clique", and purged Peng from all influential positions for the rest of his life. Peng lived in virtual obscurity until 1965, when the reformers Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping supported Peng's limited return to government, developing military industries in Southwest China. In 1966, following the advent of the Cultural Revolution, Peng was arrested by Red Guards. From 1966–1970, radical factions within the Communist

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, power is the ability or right to control people or things. This definition is apparent throughout the history of China and through historical figures. Confucius is one of the most influential historical figures of Chinese history. In Confucius’s mind, the government should retain power, however, not to the extent that they do today. According to The Confucian Ethic and More About Confucius, “the government’s most important job was to inspire people [.

Assess the impact of interference by foreign powers on China’s development in the 20th century During the 20th century China underwent a massive transformation. In the early 1900s China was a mass of land lacking any real political cohesion and so was plagued by disputes between the many ruling warlords. However, by the year 2000 China was considered a major contender on the world stage and still is today; it almost seems certain that China will become the most powerful nation on earth in the

protests have happened in some of China’s other major cities, and they weren’t just about the political system and economy (Chai and Chai 14). Some of the biggestw protests started breaking out when Deng went to the United States and made a deal with Jimmy Carter, re-establishing diplomatic ties. While Deng was in the United States, he also made the Open Door Policy, “building socialism with Chinese characteristics” (Chai and Chai 57). This allowed the communist party to keep political control. This

Prompt 2 Since the start of the 20th century, with the fall of the Qing dynasty, when China was in shambles with no industry, a corrupt government and no international presence, all the way up until today, where China has evolved into one of the strongest internationally recognized countries with a highly globalized market, the relationship between the Chinese people and its government has been debated on whether or not Chinese society is one ruled and dominated by a central government or a society

Industrialization in China began in 1949 when the Communist party took power. Ever since, the rapid economic growth of China has overshadowed the violations of human rights. China is a very powerful country that has a direct relationship between its economic growth and human rights abuse. Although others may argue on the positive aspects of industrialization such as creation of wealth, in this paper I argue that the industrialization in China has done more harm than good because it has particularly