China‚ officially the People’s Republic of China‚ is a country located in East Asia. It is the world’s most populous country‚ with a population of over 1.3 billion. The PRC is a single-party state governed by the Communist Party of China‚ with its seat of government in the capital city of Beijing. It exercises jurisdiction over 22 provinces‚ five autonomous regions‚ four direct-controlled municipalities‚ and two mostly self-governing special administrative regions . The PRC also claims Taiwan – which
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| | | Dr. Sun Yat-senJonathan Spence‚ professor at Yale University; author of several acclaimed books on China TIME 100: AUGUST 23-30‚ 1999 VOL. 154 NO. 7/8 In the turbulent and tangled history of modern China‚ Sun Yat-sen holds a unique place. Claimed as a personal inspiration and political guide by the most bitterly opposed political parties‚ he is known to millions as "the Father of the Chinese Revolution." Yet his own life was a constant scramble for livelihood and influence‚ he spent
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(simplified Chinese: 陈觉中; traditional Chinese: 陳覺中; pinyin: Chén Juézhōng) is a Chinese Filipino entrepreneur and the founder and current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Filipino fast food chain Jollibee. He attended high school at Chiang Kai Shek College and graduated from the University of Santo Tomas with a degree in chemical engineering. Tan had initially planned an ice cream parlor when he founded Jollibee‚ then added dishes such as hamburgers‚ french fries‚ and fried chicken. On
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that the USSR had entered to the sake of taking some spoils. i. The Soviet Union was also granted control of the Manchurian railroads and received special privileges to Dairen and Port Arthur. 3. Critics of FDR charged that he sold China’s Chiang Kai-shek down the river‚ while supporters claimed that the Soviets could have taken more of China had they wished‚ and that the Yalta agreements had actually limited the Soviet
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JAPAN’S PART IN THE OUTBREAK OF WORLD WAR H It took Japan less than half a century to rise to power and become a major world player. In the last quarter of the 19th century‚ Japan turned to Western technology in order to avoid the fate of China‚ namelyWestern dominance. By the 1890s‚ Japan had so far modernized and strengthened itself that it was able to join in the scramble for possessions in China. In 1902‚ it signed a treaty with Great Britain which recognized its new status among other things
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Isaac Lee Language A: English HL World Literature Paper 6/3/2013 Word Count: 1215 A New Perspective on Chinese History Isaac Lee WLP Ball 1 The novel‚ To Live‚ by Yu Hua was banned in China when it was first published because the novel exposed the faulty rule of the Communist party in China. This literary masterpiece depicts four decades of Chinese history‚ including historic events as the Sino-Japanese war‚ the civil war‚ the founding of the People’s Republic of China‚ Mao’s Great Leap Forward
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Ch. 29 THE STALIN REVOLUTION Political * Stalin was a military dictator whose radical ideas weakened Russia but industrialized it very fast and turned the people hard workers by oppressing them. * Stalin was highly paranoid and persecuted many of his top officials and supporters * People who moved to the cities‚ worked enthusiastically‚ and asked no questions could hope to rise into the upper ranks of the Communist Party * Cultural and social * Women entered careers and
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United States saw that the URSS was expanding all over Europe and Asia‚ because the soviet forces toke the entire island of Sakhalin and the Kuriles islands in the war against Japan and signed with the communist new government of Poland the political Oder line as the frontier with Germany. With those changes the URSS gained Konigsberg and Lvov for Poland‚ meanwhile Poland toke the principal port of Berlin‚ Stettin‚ and the rest of Prussia‚ part of Brandenburg‚ Pomerania and Silesia. A lot of German
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Introduction Life‚ like war‚ compares to the game of chess. There are two sides‚ and they take turn moving their pieces in play. There is always a strategy for the final goal‚ victory‚ or the game could end in a stalemate. An endless possibility of moves exists for each player‚ keeping in mind the possible future actions of the opponent. This makes the game complex and difficult because each player does not know the intent‚ or exact move of the opponent. Each player must rely on instinct and
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implemented Export control Act in 1940 to limit arms supply to Jap. - Annexation of Northern Indochina Sept 1940 o Japan expanded into Indochina eliminating allied rail supply route to China (halting 10‚000 tons of material from reaching Chiang Kai-Shek - Tripartite Pact o Japan signed a pact with Germany and Italy o Formalises Japans opposition to US and Britain. - Soviet Union Non-Aggression Pact-April 1941 - Japanese expansion into southern Indochina-July
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