In 1836‚ the Chinese government undertook a major policy review of the opium trade. Lin Zexu volunteered to take on the task of suppressing opium. In March 1839‚ he became Special Imperial Commissioner in Canton‚ where he ordered the foreign traders to surrender their opium stock. He confined the British to the Canton Factories and cut off their supplies. Chief Superintendent of Trade‚ Charles Elliot‚ complied with Lin’s demands in order to secure a safe exit for the British‚ with the costs involved
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Forms of government and state rule are usually put into one of two categories. These categories are Democratic governments‚ seen in established democracies such as the UK‚ or New Democracies‚ which are usually countries that have just experienced the fall of an authoritarian regime. Democracy is considered by many to be the best form of government‚ as it is seen that the people are supposedly free from the ’ties and binds’ of authoritarian control. Whether this is true or not I am going to examine
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history these ideas have been used to guide societies and nations as well as influence the development of the region. Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong are two leaders that have been consider people that have changed the world somehow whether for good or evil. Adolf Hitler was a German politician and the leader of the Nazi party. Mao Zedong‚ commonly referred to Chairman Mao‚ was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People’s Republic of China. Adolf Hitler was an Austrian born
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III. Rule of Moderate (Second stage of Revolution) #1- Chiang Kai-shek’s coup marks the desertion of the national bourgeoisie from the revolution‚ which is the clash (emergence) of a Centre a national counter-revolution‚ and the conclusion of a deal between the Kuomintang Rights and the imperialists against the Chinese revolution.. - Chiang Kai-shek’s coup signifies that in South China there will now be two camps‚ two governments‚ two armies‚ two Centre -- the revolutionary Centre in Wuhan and
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instead the area was filled with offices for imperial ministries. These were badly damaged during the Boxer Rebellion and the area was cleared to produce the beginning of 天*门 Square. Near the centre of today’s square‚ close to the site of the Mao Zedong Mausoleum‚ once stood one of the most important gates of Beijing. This gate was known as the "Great Ming Gate" (???) during the Ming Dynasty‚ "Great Qing Gate" (???) during the Qing Dynasty‚ and "Gate of China" (???) during the Republic of China
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Revolutions Project During the Chinese Revolution‚ the army of Mao Zedong‚ known as The Red Army‚ helped prolong the existence of the Communist Part in China. The Red Army was formed when the followers of Zedong were led into the mountains. It started as only a group of about 1000 men‚ but eventually turned into an army of 12‚000 because many peasants joined. The peasants joined the army because it gave them a sense of stability. They knew that Mao was a strong leader that fought for his people and that
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Mao Ze Dong started the Great Cultural Revolution in 1966‚ in what appeared to be a massive cleansing policy to ensure the final victory of Mao and his supporters over the rest of the Chinese Communist party. Mao Zedong officially launched the Cultural Revolution at Eleventh Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee. Over the next decade‚ literally millions of people were destroyed‚ imprisoned and blamed for previously hidden ’bourgeois tendencies’ while tens of thousands were executed. Mao Zedong
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Nicholas Lima Mr. Politelli Eastern civilization December 2 2012 Chinas Century of Humiliation China had thousands of years of greatness to only be shamefully humiliated in what is called Chinas century of humiliation. The years of humiliation all began during the Opium wars and the treaties of Nanking that led into the Sino-Japanese war‚ and even into World War II. From 1840 to 1850 the rise of opium smuggling and the treaties of Nanking had led to the beginning of the humiliation and led
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The Red Guards Beginning in 1966 until 1976 when Mao Tse Tung died‚ he launched The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Chairman of the Communist Party Mao Zedong‚ wanted his Red Guards to take over the other Chinese government authorities. Mao wanted to regain power within the Communist Party. The Red Guards were mainly made up of young adults and children. They were all followers of Mao’s ideas. The Red Guard ’s main goal was to get rid of everything that had to do with the old culture in
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brutality of Cultural Revolution in China writes it. The document‚ written in 1966‚ gives an account of events that led the writer to live an awful life. He describes his life as miserable; the future holds no good to him‚ as a direct victim of Mao Zedong paradigm‚ he endures a lot of suffering‚ he swears to avenge his suffering. The author‚ a victim of human rights violence‚ writes the document in China. He represents thousands of innocent citizens that fell victims of cultural violence. The document
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