China and Democracy Post Mao The Potential Power of China’s New Middle Class By: Ryan Smith Senior Thesis Professor Felker Abstract: This paper examines China during the reform era after Mao. It tries to understand how a country‚ which has been engaging in economic liberal reforms since 1978‚ has been able to resist any major political reforms. The answer to this question lies with the newly created middle class in China. The reforms initiated
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Revolution happened because Mao Zedong wanted it to happen. He wanted to run china all by himself. He wanted the people of china to be under his control. He believed that china was headed in a wrong direction. He needed to do something in order to get them back on track. Zedong received a lot of criticism‚ due his beliefs. China had undergoing a lot of damage due to World War 2. The only way for him do this was to join a group. The group was called the Communist Party of China. It contained all people
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English 12 March 2015 How did Mao Zedong control and lead millions even though his policies failed and killed millions? Mao Zedong was the leader‚ spokesperson and symbol of the Communist revolution in China. He is qualified as the greatest mass murderer in world history‚ killing 45 million in four years. Anyone who opposed him was punished by execution‚ imprisonment or forced famine but anyhow his authority was rarely questioned. Even today he is is treated as a hero in China with a Mausoleum dedicated
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In the early parts of the twentieth century China was in a constant state of revolution. The nation’s form of government‚ its leadership‚ seemed to be continuously changing. The Chinese people lacked the prosperity that they desire. On an international stage China was being walked over and taken advantage of by other nations. To the north of China the Soviet Union was formed and had begun to prosper and bring the nation power. The people of the Soviet Union were large supporters of its government
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achieve sustainability. By these events the peasants saw they would benefit from Maoism and therefore supported the communistic regime. Soon after the peasants quickly realized that Maoism was not as it seemed. With the start of industrial projects‚ Mao began looking to the peasants to pay for his vision through socialized agriculture called cooperatives. This movement created the next phase of Mao’s regime and moved the country quickly into collectivization. The peasants were forced to give up their
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Edward McKnight Kauffer started his expert life as a painter‚ however got to be one of Britain’s best known between war originators. He grasped business outline as a method for profiting as well as a vital artistic expression in its own privilege. Counterparts commended him as a ’decent interpreter’‚ adroit at utilizing present day workmanship to address a mainstream gathering of people. Naturally introduced to destitution in the Midwest of America‚ in his late adolescents Kauffer was given the
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Q8. Mao Zedong was the Communists party leader in China during the time of the civil war between the Nationalists and Communists. Mao Zedong embraced the idea of Marxist socialism‚ communism‚ from a young age. Mao realized the potential within the Chinese peasants and believed he would be able to lead them in a revolt in hope to spread the political idea of Communism throughout all of China. Unfortunately‚ Mao and the Communists faced the major threat of Jiang Jieshi and his political party of Nationalism
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most powerful rulers”. Mao Zedong was the icon of the communist revolution and the founding father of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)‚ which he governed as Chairman of the Communist party of China (CPC) from its establishment to his death. His influence is still a force to contend with today as he remains China’s most famous or infamous leader of the twentieth century. Aiming to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy to a modern industrialized society‚ Mao launched the Great Leap
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Mao Zedong was a bad leader for China. While Mao was in power‚ many people lost their lives due to the Red Guards. The Red Guards were enforcing Mao’s policies because they thought that was the correct thing to do. The Red Guards assaulted people who held different opinions regarding the change in the culture of China. This resulted in people losing their lives ( Schwartz‚ 5). For example‚ when the peasants challenged Mao’s opinion about what they were told to do during the Great Leap Forward they
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In the millennia across which China has existed relatively few forms of political and economic systems have dominated the scene. For nearly all but the last fifty-two years‚ China was ruled by a feudal system under an Emperor‚ the Son of Heaven. In the late 19th century‚ the feudal warlords had usurped nearly all of the actual power of the Emperor and had led the country into an age of decadence‚ economic chaos‚ and a class system that consistently denied the majority of the population any real
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