China\'s population is about 20% of the world population while it possesses just 7% of the world\'s arable land. Feeding its people has, therefore, been the country\'s major concern through much of its history. When the Communist party of China (CPP) came to power in 1949 as a result of the Communis...

Since its adoption by the Soviet Union in 1947, the AK-47 has been seen in every conflict around the world. The weapon was used by all communist countries and played a dramatic role in the spread of communism. The weapon's inventor Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov was born on November 10, 191...

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...

COMMUNISM It's hard to believe that 60 years ago, the threat of communism was at the door step of the United States. Most everyone was in the some way effected by the threat. From being assoiated with communists or even being acused of actually being one. Communism is of...

"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...

China and Japan: Asia's Sleeping Giants Of all regions in the world aiming for a bright future, none is closer to that goal than Asia. Asia, also known as the "sleeping giant" accounts for over sixty percent of the earth's population with China holding a large a...

The Rise and Spread of Communism in China The aftermath of World War II had left many countries in ruins, as great masses of countrymen were beginning to suffer from its devastating effects. The remains of what had once been great cities were now destroyed, and the remnants of great buildings an...

China ascribes to its own form of communism, Maoism (as opposed to the Soviet Marxist model). It also has many characteristics that distinguish it from the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and make any sort of economic comparison difficult, to say the least. As much as the socialist econo...

The Roots of Communist China To say that the Chinese Communist revolution is a non-Western revolution is more than a clich‚. That revolution has been primarily directed, not like the French Revolution but against alien Western influences that approached the level of domination ...

On October 1st 1949, Mao Tse-tung, the chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and leader of the communist armies proclaimed the People's Republic of China. It was a hard-fought victory for Mao and the communists, a victory which had come after nearly four years of unbridled civil war....

Mao turned China into a complete Totalitarianism state. It was the Communist ideology that ran the country. All social, political, economic, Cultural and intellectual activities were in some way controlled by Mao. Mao set many rules by which the people were to live by making China at the time, a tot...

The Roots of Communist China To say that the Chinese Communist revolution is a non-Western revolution is more than a clich,. That revolution has been primarily directed, not like the French Revolution but against alien Western influences that approached the level of domination and drastically a...

Throughout history, women have aimed for a recognized place in society. Women generally have had fewer legal rights and career opportunities than men. Wifehood and motherhood were regarded as women\'s most significant professions. Looking at the world today, many accomplishments in women\'s rights h...

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 ...

André Malraux was a French writer, explorer and statesman, who was born in Paris on 3 November 1901. He was self-taught through his love of books and paintings and his early acquaintance with avant-garde poets and artist. (Winegarten 268) He learned Oriental languages that came in ha...

Blood Red Sunset: A Dysfunctional View of the Cultural Revolution The failings and excesses of the Cultural Revolution and the Communist system it helped perpetuate are many and well known. The horrific statistics of the number of people killed and the resources wasted are straightforward and obviou...

Introduction China, also known as the People's Republic of China (Zhong hua Ren Min Gong He Guo), is the world's largest country by population. China contains more than 1/5 of the world's population. China has 1.3 billion people with a landmass only about the same size as the Unit...

Do you know what a revolution is? Well according to Webster it is an effort tooverthrow a government and set up a new one usually by violent means. Revolutions arenever cased by just one thing. There is usually plenty of background agitation set off byan event. A revolution can't simply replace ...

The struggles that Liang Heng went through in the story "Son of the Revolution" during the reign of Mao are an incredible story of loyalty towards political Party versus family. You can slowly see how Liang Heng's absolute loyalty towards Socialism is slowly swayed through personal t...

The birth of a nation is always complicated. And when you belonged to one of the most powerful nation in the world, wanting to be on its own can¡t be an easy way. Therefore, Taiwan is a model of self construction, but the emergence and the acceptation in the world order is not as easy as people thi...

Colors of the Mountain takes you through the journey of a young Chinese boy by the name of Da Chen. He is growing up through one of the hardest time in Chinese history, the Cultural Revolution. The great Chairman Mao was at power, and was determined to rid China of any capitalistic views, and turn t...

Geography: China is the third largest country in the world, which is slightly larger in area than the Uni Chain is located in Central and East Asia. China is bounded by Mongolia, Russia and Kazakhstan to the north, North Korea, the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea to the east, the South China S...

When Sigmund Freud said, \"Man is wolf to man,\" he meant that man is always trying to gain power over the weak. World conflicts around the world confirm Freud\'s philosophies. \"Men are not gentle creatures who want to be loved, and who at the most can defend themselves if they are attacked; they a...

Manufacturing and Industry in China The Chinese have long since been an enterprising group of people. Long before the introduction of Western technologies and ideas, this country has had a history of local industry dating back some 2000 years. These innovative people, from an ear...

Current Unites States policies towards China must change. It must be realized that it is inevitable that China will once again become a great power and that it is in America's national interests to come to terms with China's role as a power in that region and to foster a positive relations...