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"My word is my bond" has become a strong and positive message sent by China. For instance, in the fifth China International Import Expo (CIIE) recently held in Shanghai, enterprises from 40 Belt and Road countries ...
Mao was born in 1893 and, as a young man, was influenced by the revolution of 1911, which overthrew China's last imperial dynasty. He later became a founding member of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and its chairman. (He was, and still is, known worldwide as "Chairman Mao.") ...
we should "steadily transform China from an agricultural country to an industrial country and build China into a great socialist country". After the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the communist party of China (CPC) led a profound socialist transformation ...
When the Communist Party of China (CPC) was founded in 1921, most of its members were Marxist intellectuals. Three years later, it formed an alliance with the Nationalist Party (KMT) against the warlords. There were two leanings within the CPC, with some cozying up to the KMT and others...
As a centrally-controlled hierarchy with a broad and detailed administrative structure across all of China, the Chinese government’s ability to organize and mobilize resources at a large scale has become a standout feature of the PRC. China’s massive poverty alleviation endeavor exemplifies its ...
they are as legitimate as state planning in a capitalist system. So, Deng did not introduce capitalism to China, but merely foreign capital and an increased role of markets as distribution mechanism. The analysis at the time (called Main Contradiction of the Chinese Society) was that the main...
Scholars normally explore China’s international migration policy through a pure social sciences lens. This article aims to investigate the policy evo
Afghanistan is the only country in modern history that has been at war for almost half a century; it has been haunted with violence, bloodshed, and displacement since 1979. How did it all start? Are those wars really ending? Read more: Could Afghanistan finally be on the...
In what way did communism have a global impact beyond those countries that were governed by communist parties ? What was the most significant benefit of the Cold War for Americans? What are the lasting effects of the great war? In what way did it cause change the occur socially,...