Genocide‚ or the mass killing of a nationality or ethnic‚ is a common and relatively frequent event in the history of mankind. Pol Pot‚ born Saloth Sar‚ was a leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia‚ and was responsible for the Cambodian Genocide. He came to power in a state of unrest and‚ much like Adolf Hitler‚ won the support of his people with his radical new proposals and ideas. He proposed an idea to implement an agrarian utopia‚ which was inspired by the Maoist principles he had seen in China
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Introduction The modern nation-state is the product of the concept of territorial sovereignty. The independence of a nation-state‚ in all its endeavors‚ was a prized possession in the world characterized by colonialism. All a nation-state wanted was independence in its political‚ social and economic activities. The nationalist sentiments are inherent in successful nation-states. However‚ the nation-state is less successful in those situations where the population is fragmented between several
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Question 2: In what way can China’s ‘socialist market economy’ be regarded as successful and to what extent is it not achieving its promise? China is much more than just a mere country. It has been through many ups and downs and exciting changes in the Chinese society‚ from changes of dynasties to establishing a name under the ‘7 wonders of the world’ with its creation of the ‘Great Wall of China’. Its heritage and history for the past thousands of years have made China of what it is today. Hence
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Assignment One Wiki Technology [pic] Discuss the possible long term cultural implications of Wiki technology. They say that two minds are better than one‚ but is the collective intelligence really superior to that of an individual? This is the question being raised of ‘wiki’ technology‚ the increasingly popular internet server software that allows users to create and edit webpage content from their browser. Wikis have the ability to connect a few - or infinite – numbers of people together
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Question 1 When classifying revolutionary movements of the 20th century it is often customary to try and label the conflict either Left Wing or Right Wing. However‚ in the cases of Sun Yat-sen and Mao Zedong‚ neither Left nor Right Wing seems an appropriate label for what their revolutions contained for China. The difference between democratic and anti-democratic is more fitting for the two Chinese revolutionaries. Both Sun and Mao advocated different methods of development to achieve the
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China puts its best face forward Shanghai’s premier shopping street‚ West Nanjing Road‚ may these days style itself as the Fifth Avenue of Asia‚ but on the busy sidewalks it still throbs with all the color and din of a medieval temple fair. Until‚ that is‚ one steps into the hushed confines of the first Lancome concept store to open anywhere in the world - at which point you might just feel as if you have stepped onto the set of 2001: A Space Odyssey‚ assuming your idea of a space station
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Midterm Paper Gender in Modern China Farewell My Concubine Farewell My Concubine by Chen Kaige (1993) is amongst the few great Chinese films that have rarely made its way to Western audiences. Farewell my concubine has been acclaimed by Western critics and received many awards from various critics’ organizations. This film marks and is a direct representation in a shift in artistic opportunities in with in many artistic mediums with in China. Farewell My Concubine gives an opportunity for Westerners
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Did anyone benefit from the Cultural Revolution? Few people would deny that the Cultural Revolution is one of the most significant events in China’s history‚ with its extraordinary effects on many groups of the population. The main aim of the revolution was simple: having risen to power‚ the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) wanted to reform the Chinese population so that they followed the communist ideology – the favour of absolute social equality. While the initial impression of this aim seems positive
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Although Roy D’Andrade’s and Nancy Scheper-Hughes’ arguments oppose one another they have fundamental similarities. As stated by Laura Nader‚ both D’Andrade and Scheper-Hughes are commenting on the overall adequacy of anthropology. D’Andrade argues that moral (defined as evaluative; good and bad‚ reward and punishment‚ and completely subjective) and objective (defined as telling about object being described‚ not about the describer) models should be kept separate‚ while Scheper-Hughes argues that
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Peasants starve – massive famines frequent Cities – massive inequality – between business/factory owners and their workers National Party policies supported business owners and middle class at the expense of the peasants. Marxism/communism/Maoism Maoism until 1949 is able to be applied to the areas that the communists control Communists are able to gain increasing control - massive support to their economic philosophies POLITICAL: • When Mao was leading the Autumn Harvest Uprising in Hunan
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