Hu Yaobang Essays

  • Out of Mao's Shadow

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    For several decades, since the death of Mao Zedong, dissidence among the public has increased against the single-party system of Mao’s Chinese Communist Party, or CCP. The CCP, which Mao co-founded, has ruled China since 1949 with little or no opposition party. The ruling party has long crushed dissent since its founding. Three authors have looked into the dissidence. The first is Merle Goldman in her analytical essay of the intellectual class in China entitled “China’s Beleaguered Intellectuals”

  • The Pro-Democracy Movement of the 1980's

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    The Pro-Democracy Movement of the 1980's Communism took over China soon after the second world war. Mao Zedong, the leader of the communist party who came from the country, remained paramount until his death on the 9th of September 1976. During his rule, he modified Marxist-Lenonism to suit China's population of peasants, and went through many "leaps" to try and revolutionise China's economy as he had done with the political system. But in the end, Millions of Chinese men, women and children

  • Modernization Theory by Seymour Lipset

    2277 Words  | 5 Pages

    Do political and economic development go together? Do countries that develop economically also become more democratic? The question posed is best explored through the lens of Modernization Theory, which partly originated with Lipset's 1959 formulation that the prospects for democracy to thrive within a country are directly correlated to its level of economic development. Przeworski has elucidated Lipset's theories as hypothesizing that economic affluence dovetails with democracy because wealth

  • China: Threat or Friend?

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    China: Threat or Friend? If you input “China’s GDP” by using a Google search, the first result jumps into your eyes should be a chart presented by World Bank, which indicates how dramatically the economy has grown in China from 0.10 trillion dollars in the year 1960 to 5.93 trillion in 2010. As Professor Stephen S. Roach wrote in his article ‘10 reasons why China is different’, China’s economy has made a break-through indeed due to its tremendous changes and unremitting efforts among: “strategy

  • Sythetic Weed

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    Synthetic weed This is the best stuff ever you have to try it! This is what some kids would say to one another. They are talking about this drug named K2. It is becoming a trend in most teenagers. Teenagers are being admitted to the hospital more often now. They have found something that is legal and can buy around there home town or over the internet. Parents have never heard of this stuff before. It is scary to think that you cannot even tell if a child is taking K2 because there is no drug

  • Xi Jinping's Rise To Power

    996 Words  | 2 Pages

    Xi Jinping and his rise to Chinese presidency began in Beijing during China’s reforms under Mao Zedong. His father was a communist party leader that was persecuted after Mao turned on his own party during the communist revolution. Though Mao’s cultural revolution did not exactly succeed, it threw young Xi Jinping into the political world with concepts of pragmatism and bureaucratic ideas. He moved to the southeastern part of China where he developed the economic and political roots that set him on

  • Communist Party Movement

    1999 Words  | 4 Pages

    In the summer of 1989, the Tiananmen Square protests threatened the legitimacy and power of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In response to the protests, the Party declared martial law and brutally decimated the defenseless demonstrators. This event caused international commotion, but more importantly, resulted in major internal change within the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Progressive reforms were halted and some were even rescinded. Then, in December of 1991 the Soviet Union officially

  • Nyjah Huston Research Paper

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    Nyjah Huston is the middle child of five kids in a family of seven. “He was the youngest skateboarder to compete in the X games at age 11 and got his first sponsor at age 7! He won the overall champ title of SLS (street league skateboarding) in 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2017. He is now the most highest paid skateboarder in the world and has over 4 million followers on his social media”(http://nyjah.com/#about-nyjah) . But most people don't know his background and how hard his childhood was. With an abusive

  • Chinese Communist Party Essay

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    China is the world’s second largest economic power, one of five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and the only communist party-led state in the G-20 grouping of major economies. China’s communist party dominates state and society in China and is committed to maintaining a permanent monopoly on power, and is intolerant of those who question its right to rule. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP or Party) has been in power in China for 63 years, dating back to 1949 by means of a

  • Love in a Fallen City

    689 Words  | 2 Pages

    rise of Communist influence made a difficult for her to stay in Shanghai, and she moved to Hong Kong in 1952, then she emigrated to United States 3 years later. In 1944, she fell in love with an author Hu lancheng, but Hu just love with another women. Chang cannot stand her love for him trampled by Hu. So, she understood that everything was gone, never come aback again. In 1973, She moved to Los Angeles. Then she was found dead in her Los Angeles apartment in September 1995. Eileen Chang enjoys a passionate

  • Chinese Strategy: A Turn to Mahan or a Practical Approach?

    1673 Words  | 4 Pages

    In the book Red Star Over the Pacific: China’s Rise and the Challenge of U.S. Maritime Strategy, the authors discuss their interpretation of Chinese strategy as it relates to the U.S. maritime power in the Western Pacific. Dr. Yoshihara and Dr. Holmes postulate that Chinese strategists have studied Alfred Thayer Mahan’s theories of sea power. He further expounds on “China’s ability to harness such power against others or to nullify the overbearing power adversaries hold in important sea areas.”1

  • World Problems: China And The Future Of China

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    Examination Two Essay One HIS 1010-5 WB: World Problems China has redeveloped itself from past years to a point where they produce a large amount of goods needed by other countries. This new position is forcing other countries and the U.S. to adapt to China and tread carefully with China while China takes awkward stances on different areas affecting their own people and the world as a whole. China’s growth produces change and change allows for new learning. As long as China can follow the commitments

  • Tiananmen Square Massacre Essay

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    The Tiananmen Square Massacre 1989 In 1989, the Chinese government went into a government “Crackdown”. The Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989 (also known as the June 4th movement) was caused by people innocently protesting for democracy in Beijing. China is running under a communist government and the 1.2 million people who protested for democracy were really aiming for the government to be less controlling. Throughout history, China has had Government issues which greatly affect the society. Communism

  • Legacy and Impact of the Tiananmen Square Massacre

    1168 Words  | 3 Pages

    Tiananmen Square Massacre is an event that took place in the summer of 1989 in Beijing, China. It is an event that forever will leave a rather haunting legacy on the Chinese culture. The Chinese citizens just wanted freedom, liberty, and justice but, with their communist government they knew they wouldn’t get anywhere without a fight. What many people don’t realize is that the massacre wasn’t just with Beijing but it was national movement with people from all over the country who stood behind the

  • Tiananmen Square: Doing Something vs Doing Nothing

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    hard to be achieved, but the people of China never gave up. Censorship played a major role in this event. The Tiananmen Square incident of 1989 will never be forgotten. The death of Hu Yaobang, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, was a major cause of the June Fourth Incident. Hu Yaobang's death led many people, especially university students, to believe it was the end of social reforms. Yaobang's death led many students to call for confrontation between themselves

  • Mao Zhiling 1966 Analysis

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    In 1966, China's Communist leader Mao Zedong launched what became known as the Cultural Revolution in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government. Mao called on millions of young Chinese students to expulse the “impure” elements of Chinese society such as what was known as the “Four Olds” -- ideas, customs, cultures, and habits. These students united and became Red Guards, who humiliated teachers, made intellectuals wear dunce caps, and destroyed anything old they could find. In

  • Nothing To My Name: The Tiananmen Square Massacre

    1099 Words  | 3 Pages

    Absolute power corrupts absolutely Located in the center of Beijing, China, Tiananmen Square was the location of the 1989 protests against the Chinese government, as well as the June 4th incident, or Tiananmen Square massacre. Today, it is a popular tourist attraction and cultural site. In the spring of 1989, university students began to gather in Tiananmen Square. They held protests against their communist government and advocated peacefully for a more democratic society. On the nights of June

  • Personal Narrative: Counter-Revolutionary Riot

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    He explained after the death of Hu Yaobang he saw other people gathering in the square and even though he wasn’t fully understanding why they were there he felt as though he needed to be there. Me and him were kind of on the same page seeing the passion in the eyes of the people as I looked

  • Ignorance Is the Lock, Knowledge Is the Master Key

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    opportunities, and suspected corruption in the national party. The Communist governments of Eastern Europe were failing, causing unrest and lost of faith amongst the Chinese citizens. The breaking point was “the death of reformist CCP general secretary Hu Yaobang” on April 15th of 1989 (Online). Students congregated in the square to mourn Yaobang’s death. According to the Berkshire Encyclopedia of China the government-run press fabricated what truly going on and attempted to taint the image of the protesters:

  • Media Coverage of the China-Tibet Talks

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    Media Coverage of the China-Tibet Talks For the past several decades, China has been trying to take over Tibet. During this conflict, the leaders of these two nations have been communicating with each other. Overall, talks have not been very successful, for conflicts still exist. The coverage of their communications by the media has been mixed. The level of objectivity and quality of content are not consistent. For detailed and unbiased information about China-Tibet talks, long articles from