People's Republic of China

For many families in China at the time, farming was one of the few careers in life that residents believed was a relatively stable job that consistently supported families long after original owners of the land passing. This was true until the warlords of middle China decided upon themselves to increase taxes in order to combat Japan’s invasion of the country. Many residents who stood in warlords’ regions of China were not fond of higher taxes and certainly did not

As we know, the constitutional history of contemporary China is rather complicated. In 1949, the Chinese People 's Political Consultative Conference adopted a “Common Program” and announced the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. Five years later, in 1954, the first National People 's Congress promulgated the Constitution of the People 's Republic of China. Following the 1954 Constitution, two more Constitutions were erected within four years, respectively in 1975 and in 1978. Another

Taiwan, also known as the Republic of China, faces several elements implicated by the U.S. foreign policy. The first element of American foreign policy is that the United States only recognizes one China. Whether it’s the China to the left of the Strait or the Taiwan to the right, it is up to both sides. The second element of American foreign policy is that Washington encourages dialogue between

Jung Chang’s “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China” is a biography of three generations of women growing up in an era of China where the continued change in leaders and their politics contributed to their struggles as women. Women were seen as second class citizens in every aspect of their lives. Jung Chang begins the story with the life of her grandmother who was a warlord’s concubine, her mother’s life as the wife of a communist party leader, and her coming of age during the Cultural Revolution

In the 1960’s the Chairman of the Communist Party of China, Mao Zedong feared that China would move too far in a revisionist direction with an emphasis on expertise rather than on ideological purity as the Soviet model was doing. In response Mao gathered a group of radicals such as Defense Minister Lin Biao to help him attack current party leadership to reassert the authority he had lost during the recent economic crisis and the Great Leap Forward. In 1966, Mao launched the Great Proletarian Cultural

On July 1st, 1997 the British rule gave way to the People’s Republic of China, who took over Hong Kong’s sovereignty. With this move, Hong Kong was declared a Special Administrative Region, in the end that they would be fully autonomous, save for the Defense and Foreign Affairs dockets. This would therefore mean that Hong Kong would conduct its affairs under the Basic Law, but even then their interpretations could be amended by mainland China at any given time. It would go without saying, that judicial

Date Description of event March 18, 1839 "First Opium War Begins Conflict between China and Great Britain over the growing opium trade. It grew from the port of Canton and ended soon after the British captured Nanjing." August 29, 1842 "Treaty of Nanjing This treaty ended the First Opium War. It granted Britain more access to trading ports and ceded the island of Hong Kong to Great Britain. " July 1, 1898 "Second Convention of Peking This convention granted the island of Hong Kong to Great Britain

China: Culture and customs. SSG. Odom 13P SLC # 001-16 China also called the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is located in East Asia. China is the world’s third largest nation. With a land, area of over 3 million square miles and population estimated to be over 1.3 billion people. China has over one-fifth of the world’s population. It boarders thirteen countries, some of those countries include Russia and Mongolia to the north and to the south are Myanmar Laos and Vietnam. The climate

Was President Nixon’s visit to China beneficial for the U.S? President Richard Nixon was sent off to China on February 21, 1972 for an official trip. He was the first president to visit the People’s Republic of China, which was established in 1949. The purpose was to improve the relations with a Communist country during the Cold War. When President Nixon arrived to China, he discussed with Premier, Zhou Enlai, and agreed to expand cultural contacts between the two nations. Also, Nixon discussed

Western history. For most of its own lengthy history, China developed in the shadow of the Western Hemisphere, shaping its own course from its Neolithic routes around 12,000 years ago year; rising and falling several times since Yu the Great started the Xia Dynasty in c. 2070 BC. On the back of its most recent rise as a result of economic reforms in the late 1970s which introduced China to the world economy, in a little under forty years China has emerged as the world’s second largest economy which