One of the poorest nations in the world during the 1930s, with electrical output that was miniscule in comparison to neighboring countries such as Japan, China has experienced tremendous growth in its energy sector since the 1949 Communist takeover. This growth quickly accelerated with the ...
摘要: China on the eve of Communist takeover A. Doak Barnett (Praeger publications in Russian history and world communism, no. 130) (Praeger university series, U-605) Frederick A. Praeger, 1963关键词: China DOI: 10.2307/2753958 被引量: 19 ...
After the communist takeover in 1949, historians in mainland China wrote their own version of the past–a history of China built on a Marxist model of progression from primitive communism to slavery, feudalism, capitalism, and finally socialism. The events of history came to be presented as a ...
Those who receive a general education can take the extremely difficult qualifying exams to enter a university. The educational system stresses obedience and rote learning over creativity. Both traditional Confucians and the Communist Party view education as a method for inculcating values in the young...
From the 15th century onward the population increased steadily, growth being interrupted by wars and natural disasters in the mid-17th century and slowed by the internal strife and foreign invasions in the century that preceded the communist takeover in 1949. During the 18th century China enjoyed ...
After the communist takeover of 1949, the Chinese engineer Qian Xuesen, who had helped found the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., U.S., returned to China, where he became the guiding figure in the development of Chinese missiles and launch vehicles, both originally derived from ...
The Communist takeover in 1949 saw this canon excised from public life. The tales of cavorting maidens were deemed decadent, the accounts of emperors were deemed counterrevolutionary, and Confucius was deemed the philosopher of reactionary feudalism. No longer were these things taught in schools or...
List of the most popular authors from China, listed alphabetically with photos when available. For centuries authors have been among the world's most ...
One of the poorest nations in the world during the 1930s, with electrical output that was miniscule in comparison to neighboring countries such as Japan, China has experienced tremendous growth in its energy sector since the 1949 Communist takeover. This growth quickly accelerated with the ...
After the communist takeover of China in 1949, gays -- and anyone else engaging in other than a limited range of government-sanctioned activities -- were persecuted. Stories are told of gays being murdered during the Cultural Revolution, a 10-year period of chaos and stringent conformity that...