Economic reform in the People's Republic of China

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    instrumental figure in the implementation of a multicultural Australia, during a time of great social, political and economic instability. From a monocultural nation, to one of the most multicultural nations in the world, multiculturalism was introduced during 1972-1975. Whitlam played a crucial role in instituting significant reforms for Australia, regarding education and healthcare reforms, making amends with foreign relations and advocating for Indigenous rights. Furthermore, through his remarkable

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    Whenever people think of communism, Russian SFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic) and China, as two biggest communist polity, always come to people’s mind first. Likewise, at any time people mention authoritarianism, they will never miss the two biggest authoritarian regimes: Russia (Russian Federation) and China. The former, with the collapse of Soviet Union in 1991, the world’s first and largest communist polity and the prime facilitator of communist political system came to an end

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    China: culture, economic, political, military perspective Class 13D 003-17 SGT Moreno, Adam Introduction China is a nation in East Asia whose vast landscape covers grassland, desert, mountains, lakes, rivers and more than 14,000km (8699.1967mi) of coastline. China borders 14 different countries; Afghanistan, Pakistan, Vietnam, North Korea, Russia, Bhutan, Burma, Nepal, Laos, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, and India (Kallie Szczepanski). The capital Beijing mixes modern

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    fair elections, the protection of minority groups, the respect of human rights, and governed by majority rule . The People’s Republic of China (of which will be referred to as its conventional short form China) has established itself as a communist state, being one of the few remaining functioning ones in the world. This report will be answering the question “how democratic is China?” and will be looking at multiple variables to measure that, using a combination of variables from the models offered

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    Introduction ==============Early Life Of Mao Zedong============= Early Life Of Mao Zedong Mao Zedong was born on December 26 1893, into one of the wealthiest farmers in ShaoShan(韶山). His father was an authoritative parent who often used brute force to instill discipline into his children. Mao Zedong was exposed to many different political theories in his early life such as representative democracy, republicanism, Marxism, socialism, classical liberalism. When Mao started Primary School, the text

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    Davon Holmes 10/10/2012 Sociology China China is the world’s most populated country with the population of 1.3 billion people. Since there were so many people in China they had to think about a way to control population so this is where the one-child policy was made. It officially restricts married, urban couples to having only one child, while allowing exemptions for several cases, including twins. This policy was introduced in 1978 and initially applied to first-born children from 1979. The policy

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    A great leap forwards or backwards? Mao Zedong envisioned transforming China from an Agrarian society to an industrial superpower through prompt modernization and assertive leadership. His dream was best exemplified by a speech given when rising to power: “We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view”. Mao’s ambitious vision was important to the resolvement of the dynastic

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    rights without discrimination. In the western society, the principles of freedom, democracy and human rights are fundamental rights. However, the People’s Republic of China, commonly known as China, is still known as the largest human rights violator in the world. This raises the question whether or not western companies should continue doing business in China despite of the human rights violations. To find an answer to this question, the human rights violations and the values of the Chinese population

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    The Chinese Civil War

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    Therefore, the reasons of Mao’s victory could be clearly related to the outcome of the war; the Mao and the CCP defeated the KMT and established the People’s Republic of China in 1949. Towards the end of the Chinese Civil War, the Chinese Communist Party under the leadership of Mao Zedong was able to defeat the Nationalists Party (KMT) which was under Chiang Kai-Shriek. Several reasons have lied upon

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    China

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    How far can the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 be considered the key turning point in the development of China in the years 1900-2000? During the years 1900-2000 there were many turning points in China's history. We saw such things as The fall of the Qing Dynasty and imperialism February 1912, The warlord era 1915, The rise of the nationalists 1928, The formation of the PRC in 1949, The Korean and Vietnam wars 1950 and 1964, Nixon's visit in 1972 and Deng Xiaoping's

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