Mao Tse-Tung was born in Hunan 1893 into a family a poor peasants who gradually risen to the status of middle class then on to rich peasants and gained merchants. He then found himself in a contradictory position. Mao's poor clothes placed him in a position naturally inferior to that of his fe...

China\'s population started to grow at a rapid rate in 1949. There were ½ a billion people in China and 2/3 of the population were under 24. This shows the increase of births had risen very quickly. There are a few reasons for this sudden rise in the population. China is a Communist country, th...

"Marxism consists of thousands of truths, but these truths can be summarized in the statement: It is right to rebel against reactionaries" Mao Zedong Although Mao Zedong is known for bringing together the people of China before, during, and after the Chinese communist revolution, he actually cau...

INTRODUCTION The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a ten-year political campaign with objectives to revolutionize china with the cultural and political ideologies of Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong launched the Great Leap Forward in 1959, which was a complete disaster. To help bring China out of the ...

On a sunny weekend afternoon on the playgrounds and crowded shopping streets of China, all is utterly normal, including a sight that would seem bizarre and mysterious anywhere else in the world. Among the children playing or walking with their parents, there is not a brother or sister to be seen. Th...

History EssayQ-How far did Mao Tse-tung solve the political, economic and social problems that faced him? Mao was faced with a variety of problems. Firstly her had to deal with the aftermath of the Kuomintang. He tried to maintain peace and unity, and he also realised this could only be achie...

In the middle of the twentieth centaury, the two biggest countries in the world, India and China, underwent significant changes in the structure of their governments. Both countries were rural where the majority of population was poor. As they were not yet industrialized, Western countries looked do...

China\'s population policy, more commonly referred to as the One-Child Policy, is still one of the most controversial topics in the world, and the only one of its kind in history. It has been praised as well as criticized by many, and the world is yet to see what results in it will have in the long...

China and Japan have both been the objects for comparison throughout the years perhaps due to their similarities of culture and sovereignty as Asian nations which were never colonised. They were however put under the same pressures as other colonised Southeast Asian states and were diversely affecte...

In 1948, Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell, wrote a book called 1984. With chilling insights into the future, the novel reveals a totalitarian society as it\'s functioning in the year 1984. In this world, people are ruled under \"The Party.\" At the head of this government is a figur...

Although both Mao Zedong and Mohandas Gandhi were strong and successful rulers, their strategies towards such positions of prestige were quite different. Even their favoring views on socialism were different: Mao leaning towards a capitalistic form of socialism while Gandhi praised manual labor for...

Communism in an Economically Developing China The future of communism in China is unknown, as the world economy becomes more international. Communism has been in China since 1949 and is still present in the country\'s activities. Presently China is undergoing incredible economic growth and promises ...

Many today believe that China is on its way to becoming one of the world's top superpowers. Increased diplomatic talks with the United States and its recent admission into the World Trade Organization only emphasize its growing political and economic importance. According to an article in TIME ...

Mao Zedong is one of the most controversial leaders of the twentieth century. He has been known both as a savior and a tyrant to the Chinese people. From his tactical success of the Long March to his embarrassing failure of the Great Leap Forward, Mao has greatly influenced the result of what China ...

History of ChinaChina has a history that spans some 3,500 years. It is perhaps one of the oldest most "great-aged" human civilizations ever recorded. 3,500 years of history is quite vast and many historians divide Chinese periods of political transformation and civil unrest's into 3 categories: Th...