• For the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976, see Cultural Revolution . (wikipedia.org)
  • Freedom swimmers' who made the treacherous journey from China to Hong Kong during the the Cultural Revolution, and police officers assigned to catch them, recall those dark days. (scmp.com)
  • Chinese director Zhang Yimou's film, set during the Cultural Revolution, praises the transformative power of cinema even as it warns against its misuse as propaganda. (scmp.com)
  • Ying Ying Liu of Hong Kong charity LumiVoce talks about growing up in a musical family during the Cultural Revolution and connecting people with nature through music tracks mixed with indigenous sounds and rhythms. (scmp.com)
  • Political turmoil and the Cultural Revolution sparked the snapping of ties in the 1960s, while Tiananmen Square was the trigger two decades on. (scmp.com)
  • Hard Like Water's hero is bent on vengeance almost from birth, and the Cultural Revolution gives him his opportunity. (scmp.com)
  • The 50th anniversary of the start of the Cultural Revolution passed quietly in China last month, but its legacy is still felt every day in contemporary Chinese politics. (abc.net.au)
  • Unlike the Tiananmen Square massacre, the Cultural Revolution is acknowledged-and for some, even remembered fondly-among the general public in China. (abc.net.au)
  • Is there a fear there could be another cultural revolution? (abc.net.au)
  • Rana Mitter, a professor of the history and politics of modern China at the University of Oxford, says the fear of another cultural revolution is irrational. (abc.net.au)
  • If you talk to top leaders, policy makers, people who are concerned with politics in China today and ask them why they keep cracking down, why there is so much hesitation about allowing a more liberal atmosphere when it comes to civil rights or political rights, over and over again you hear this statement: 'We don't want the Cultural Revolution coming back,'' he says. (abc.net.au)
  • But] China is so different today from the 1960s that actually the prospects of a cultural revolution coming again are pretty much zero. (abc.net.au)
  • Geoff Raby, the Australian ambassador to China from 2007 to 2011, says the current generation of leaders uses their experience of living through the Cultural Revolution to legitimise their hold on power. (abc.net.au)
  • justify their position because they've suffered because of their parents through the Cultural Revolution, and they've paid their price,' he says. (abc.net.au)
  • But the Cultural Revolution doesn't really provide the grounding that enables him to put out the message that he wants, which is of a strong China, a China which is rising in the world and which is finally getting its rightful place,' he says. (abc.net.au)
  • The problem about the Cultural Revolution is first of all it's a very ambiguous story. (abc.net.au)
  • Chinese red guards during the cultural revolution in 1966. (abc.net.au)
  • Will there ever be an official apology for the Cultural Revolution? (abc.net.au)
  • The Communist Party owns history and it never really has come clean on the Cultural Revolution, just as it hasn't on Tiananmen Square,' Raby says. (abc.net.au)
  • China will never be whole unless it reconciles itself with its past-the Cultural Revolution, Tiananmen Square and so on. (abc.net.au)
  • But historian Frank Dikötter argues that this transformation actually started during the last throes of the Cultural Revolution, a disastrous period of social upheaval that lasted from 1966 to 1976, and was propelled by the Chinese population itself. (asiasociety.org)
  • They look around, particularly in the countryside, and realize that the credibility of the Communist Party has been undermined by the Great Leap Forward, [and] the organization has been badly damaged by the Cultural Revolution itself. (asiasociety.org)
  • This is probably one of the most dramatic outcomes of the Cultural Revolution. (asiasociety.org)
  • Hong Kong University humanities Professor Frank Dikötter discusses his book "The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962-1976" at Asia Society in Hong Kong. (asiasociety.org)
  • Why did Mao launch the Cultural Revolution? (schoolshistory.org.uk)
  • The masses of the workers, peasants, soldiers, revolutionary intellectuals, and revolutionary cadres form the main force in this Great Cultural Revolution. (schoolshistory.org.uk)
  • Since the Cultural Revolution is a revolution, it inevitably meets with resistance. (schoolshistory.org.uk)
  • When the Cultural Revolution officially began, this uniformity seemed to extend to the mind. (versobooks.com)
  • A thoughtful contribution to the writing of a new and nuanced cultural history of the Cultural Revolution. (versobooks.com)
  • Offering new and exciting insights based upon impeccable research, this is one book about the Cultural Revolution that should not be missed. (versobooks.com)
  • Historians are still struggling to piece together a full account of the "astounding" violence which swept China in 1966-67, the onset of the Cultural Revolution. (thebrowser.com)
  • Chinese Red Guards, high school and university students, waving copies of Chairman Mao Zedong's 'Little Red Book,' parade in Beijing's streets at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution on June 1966. (theepochtimes.com)
  • During China's Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), under the command of Mao, Red Guards rampaged through much of the country, humiliating, torturing, and killing perceived class enemies, and pillaging cultural symbols that were deemed as not representative of the communist revolution. (theepochtimes.com)
  • As someone who has experienced living in communist China, I was reminded recently-by the mainstream media's reporting on President Donald Trump-of the Cultural Revolution. (theepochtimes.com)
  • Just over fifty years ago, China's Cultural Revolution began. (douglas-mcintyre.com)
  • The Cultural Revolution in China. (revcom.us)
  • Let's dig into the Cultural Revolution [in China, from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s]. (revcom.us)
  • You led communists around the world in fighting to understand what the significance of the Cultural Revolution was, and to uphold it as a dividing line question, and to see it as the highest point of class struggle in human history, the greatest height the class struggle's gotten to in human history. (revcom.us)
  • You can find 70 books about how-and you can hear people who are 32 years old talking about how-the Cultural Revolution destroyed their careers, and they had remarkable careers when they were like two years old. (revcom.us)
  • You had musicians who once were major supporters of the Cultural Revolution who now listen to these stories from people, from artists coming out of China, for instance, and saying, "I was misled. (revcom.us)
  • The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a decade-long period of political and social chaos caused by Mao Zedong's bid to use the Chinese masses to reassert his control over the Communist party. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • During the Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao sought to impose his doctrines, known as "Mao Zedong Thought," on all aspects of Chinese society. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • The text is from " After the Cultural Revolution " written by Paul E. Sigmund in January 1973 for WORLDVIEW Magazine. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • The title of this article is somewhat deceiving, as historians place the Cultural Revolution from 1966 until Mao's death in 1976. (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • When former congressman Newt Gingrich, the National Review's David Harsanyi, Breitbart's Joel Pollak and other right-wingers look at the protests against police violence, they see the Cultural Revolution. (fairobserver.com)
  • The Cultural Revolution, which lasted from 1966 to 1976, turned China upside down. (fairobserver.com)
  • Initially instigated by Mao Zedong to outflank his more liberal opponents, the Cultural Revolution drew millions of young people into a bewildering assortment of Red Guard factions that purged "reactionary" elements from institutions, destroyed irreplaceable historical treasures, and even fought pitched battles against each other. (fairobserver.com)
  • The Cultural Revolution lasted a decade, resulted in at least a million deaths and led to the destruction, in Beijing alone, of nearly 5,000 of the city's 6,800 officially designated sites of historical interest. (fairobserver.com)
  • Black Lives Matter" has become America's version of China's Cultural Revolution - a radical, youth-led purge of the vestiges of traditional culture and authority within a one-party state. (fairobserver.com)
  • But various conservatives, libertarians and even a "libertarian Marxist" have seized on the Cultural Revolution analogy - probably because they believe that any associations with China are by definition bad and no one really understands references to Jacobins and the French Revolution anymore. (fairobserver.com)
  • Describe the lives of the Chinese people during the Cultural Revolution, paying particular attention to women. (enotes.com)
  • During the Cultural Revolution of 1966-1976, Mao tried to silence internal critics, reduce inequalities between social classes, and restore a sense of Communist fervor in Chinese youth. (enotes.com)
  • It is estimated that anywhere from 500,000 to 7 million Chinese people were killed during the Cultural Revolution, and many people who were deemed "intellectuals" had to serve time in harsh labor camps. (enotes.com)
  • 1. How does school during the Chinese Cultural Revolution sound different from the schools you have attended? (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • As a history student, do you think that the indoctrination in schools during the Cultural Revolution was successful? (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • Run in collaboration with the Whitechapel Gallery, researchers, artists, designers, curators and practitioners at all stages of their careers worldwide are invited to reassess the significance of the arts and culture of the Cultural Revolution, the 9th CCVA Annual Conference reflects upon their impacts on everyday life in China within socio-political, cultural and global contexts. (bcu.ac.uk)
  • The archbishop of Beijing is visiting Hong Kong this week in a trip that marks a historic first since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) severed diplomatic relations with the Vatican 70 years ago. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • The Chinese bishop began his visit to Hong Kong on Monday night with vespers in the chapel of Hong Kong's diocesan offices followed by an exchange of gifts. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Chow visited Beijing in April, becoming the first bishop of Hong Kong to make an official visit to the Chinese capital in nearly 30 years. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Bishop Stephen Chow of Hong Kong arrived yesterday in Beijing, the capital of China, amid some tensions between the Asian giant and the Vatican. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • When Katherine Luo moved from Hong Kong to mainland China in 1955 to study drama and opera, she hoped her ideals and patriotism might help to build her country. (douglas-mcintyre.com)
  • Idag är det ett av världens största universitetsförlag, med bl.a. en filial (OUP China) i Hong Kong. (lu.se)
  • On September 15 in New York, former U.S. Ambassador to China Winston Lord will talk with Asia Society's Orville Schell about the U.S.-China relationship and the impact of the 2016 U.S. election. (asiasociety.org)
  • On April 7, 2016 , a panel of experts from our U.S.-China Track II Energy Dialogue explored these issues and more at a National Committee event in New York City. (ncuscr.org)
  • This is part of a 2004 interview that appeared in the May 9, 2016 issue of Revolution newspaper. (revcom.us)
  • 2016, https://www.enotes.com/homework-help/describe-lives-chinese-people-during-cultural-766936. (enotes.com)
  • Professor Kung notes that ideology and elites in general play indispensable roles in revolutions: an average of 75% of leaders in major revolutions since the 19th century were from the upper class, and an average of 89% of such revolutions were inspired by democratic ideology. (ubc.ca)
  • Professor Kung defines "traditional elites" as the group of individuals that accomplished the uncommon feat of succeeding in the Chinese civil exam (many reaching the rank of jinshi and juren ) and entered the government bureaucracy in the 19th century. (ubc.ca)
  • Jing Tsu is the John M. Schiff Professor of East Asian Languages and the Comparative Literature Chair of the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale, specializing in modern Chinese literature and culture from the 19th century to the present. (lindentreebooks.com)
  • The Industrial Revolution marked the beginning of a major shift in economic, military and political power from East to West. (riazhaq.com)
  • With the advent of the Industrial revolution, the use of machines relying on energy from fossil fuels dramatically enhanced labor productivity in the West and shifted the balance of power from Asia to America and Europe. (riazhaq.com)
  • Britain's Industrial Revolution was built on the de-industrialisation of India - the destruction of Indian textiles and their replacement by manufacturing in England, using Indian raw material and exporting the finished products back to India and the rest of the world. (riazhaq.com)
  • The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has diagnosed that the emergence of data as a factor of production is catalyzing a new industrial revolution. (nbr.org)
  • Chinese policymakers view this industrial revolution as a competitive opportunity to leapfrog to leadership of the international system. (nbr.org)
  • The idea of a new industrial revolution is not unique to China. (nbr.org)
  • Germany has its Industrie 4.0 national strategic initiative, venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz has made "software eating the world" buzzworthy, and the World Economic Forum operates a Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution. (nbr.org)
  • The world was fundamentally changed when James Watt , along with fellow inventors and entrepreneurs such as James Hargreaves and Richard Arkwright , pioneered the technologies that catalysed the great burst of productivity we now call the Industrial Revolution. (world.edu)
  • The disease was eliminated from most industrialized countries after the industrial revolution, which heralded the institution of improved sanitation, hygiene, and nutrition. (cdc.gov)
  • The Chinese Communist Revolution was a social and political revolution that culminated in the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949. (wikipedia.org)
  • On 1 October 1949, Mao formally proclaimed the creation of the People's Republic of China. (wikipedia.org)
  • The most common date used, and the one used here, is the Proclamation of the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mao Zedong and leading revolutionaries proclaim the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949. (wikipedia.org)
  • The country with more than one billion people is now witnessing its third revolution since the creation of the Peoples' Republic in 1949. (dawn.com)
  • Though still ruled by the Communist Party, China has long moved away from the doctrinal socialism that formed the basis of the 1949 revolution. (dawn.com)
  • The Chinese revolution of 1949 was one of the most important experiences in the history of twentieth-century national liberation movements. (iire.org)
  • The Paris Commune of 1871, the Russian revolution of 1917-1956, and the Chinese revolution of 1949-1976 opened a new chapter in human history. (revcom.us)
  • The story of contemporary China typically dates back to Mao's 1949 revolution. (leftword.com)
  • But this second revolution led by Deng could not have been possible without the initial socialist revolution led by Mao Zedong that destroyed the old economic, political and social order and established a socialist system. (dawn.com)
  • Chairman Mao Zedong and Chinese President Xi Jinping. (abc.net.au)
  • The Chinese regime's turn towards the market since the death of Mao Zedong make it all the more important to understand the revolution's distinctive origins and strange destiny. (iire.org)
  • To this day, the Chinese Communist Party remains the governing party of mainland China and the second-largest political party in the world. (wikipedia.org)
  • Archbishop Li Shan of Beijing, president of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, the state-managed Catholic organization in mainland China controlled by the CCP's United Front Work Department. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • Although he was not from China, by a quirk of Filipino law he was living in the Philippines on a mainland Chinese passport. (forerunner.com)
  • Under President Xi Jinping, China is now asserting itself more forcefully as a global power, challenging the American dominated world order. (dawn.com)
  • Raby says China's president, Xi Jinping, has 'a very active interest' in using Chinese history to try to bolster his position. (abc.net.au)
  • What's in store for China's energy revolution, and how can China achieve the renewable energy and energy efficiency goals outlined in its 13th Five-Year Plan? (ncuscr.org)
  • NANNING, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said the secret to the success of the Chinese revolution lies in ideals and convictions. (xinhuanet.com)
  • For the nationalist revolution led by Sun Yat-sen, see 1911 Revolution . (wikipedia.org)
  • These new reformist and revolutionary parties, including the first Chinese women's political organization, led transpacific movements against American anti-Chinese racism in 1905 and supported constitutional reform and the Republican Revolution in China around 1911, achieving transpacific expansion through innovative use of cross-cultural political ideologies and intertwined institutional and interpersonal networks. (sup.org)
  • A new landmark of history and methods in the understanding of the critical post-1911 period in Chinese political life. (sup.org)
  • The "Xinhai Revolution" of October 1911, it is often held, gave birth to modern China. (ubc.ca)
  • However, they initially tried to advance their interests within the Qing regime, and subsequently played only a supporting (albeit crucial) role in the 1911 revolution. (ubc.ca)
  • Professor Kung posits that the revolution of 1911 was triggered by "new elites", who were largely spawned in Japan (and included Sun Yat-Sen, Huang Xin, Tao Cheng-Zhang and others). (ubc.ca)
  • During the decade before 1911, Chinese citizens were publicly and privately sponsored to study at Japanese post-secondary institutions. (ubc.ca)
  • Professor Kung then examines the distribution of these two types of elites along a geographical demarcation that played no direct role in the 1911 Revolution. (ubc.ca)
  • Since the boundary itself played no role in the 1911 revolution, differences in the frequency of rebellions among border prefectures can plausibly be traced to differences in the frequency of elites. (ubc.ca)
  • In June 1966, Chinese Red Guards - high school and university students - wave copies of Chairman Mao Zedong's "Little Red Book" as they parade in Beijing's streets. (asiasociety.org)
  • Or you have these popular cultural forms, The Red Violin , for god's sake: a movie that had nothing to do with China, but there was this one scene in it where they had to show the Red Guards banging down doors and pulling people out of their houses, searching for this red violin that they needed to smash. (revcom.us)
  • As Mao quickly lost control over the movement, the Red Guards threw China into such chaos that even the country's nuclear weapons complex was at risk . (fairobserver.com)
  • Over the past seven decades since taking over power through a revolution, the party has transformed China from one of the poorest countries to the world's second biggest economy and a superpower. (dawn.com)
  • China is the world's largest producer and consumer of pork, the second largest producer of poultry and the fourth largest dairy producer. (iatp.org)
  • Sixteen of the world's 20 most polluted cities are in China. (bloomsbury.com)
  • In recent years, China has experienced a revolution in information and communications technology (ICT), in 2003 surpassing the USA as the world's largest telephone market, and as of February 2008, the number of Chinese Internet users has become the largest in the world. (isbn.nu)
  • At the same time, China has overtaken the USA as the world's biggest supplier of information technology goods. (isbn.nu)
  • This is the core idea in The Third Revolution , Elizabeth Economy's exhaustive study of Xi's first five-year term as the revolutionary head of the world's most populous nation and America's prime geopolitical challenger. (lse.ac.uk)
  • After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world's most powerful nations. (lindentreebooks.com)
  • Last December, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's government released three new national security strategy documents that, among other reforms, included the long-eschewed acquisition of long-range precision strike missiles and a major military spending boost that will give Japan the world's third-biggest military budget, behind only the United States and China. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • Right-wing "intellectuals" uncomfortable with the Black Lives Matter movement have latched onto a dubious historical analogy with Maoist China. (fairobserver.com)
  • While the First World spent the last decade taking on debt and levering up dubious assets like dot-com startups and subprime mortgages, then suffering the inevitable fallout, China kept its debt relatively modest and its currency depressed while it accumulated a vast war chest of foreign-exchange reserves - some $2.1 trillion worth as of the end of June, according to the Wall Street Journal . (energyandcapital.com)
  • Deng Xiaoping's embrace of economic liberalisation unleashed a boom in private entrepreneurship in China, but the confidence that entrepreneurs had in Beijing to protect their interests has somewhat weakened in the past decade. (scmp.com)
  • There have been very few stories of China over the past decade more important than the decline of the environment and the rise of civil society. (bloomsbury.com)
  • As a columnist for Chinese economic and energy magazines, he has published over one hundred articles in the past decade, and coordinated the publication in China of five American energy-related books. (ncuscr.org)
  • The most violent phase of the revolution ended in 1969 but the revolution itself didn't really stop until Mao died in 1976. (abc.net.au)
  • However, industrial employment shares for today's late industrializers such as China, India and Bangladesh are all below 16%, and on today's trends seem unlikely to rise much further. (riazhaq.com)
  • Thus, the environment in which China, India, and other emerging economies now pursue growth is fundamentally different. (world.edu)
  • Kingdom of Characters follows the bold innovators who reinvented the Chinese language, among them an exiled reformer who risked a death sentence to advocate for Mandarin as a national language, a Chinese-Muslim poet who laid the groundwork for Chairman Mao's phonetic writing system, and a computer engineer who devised input codes for Chinese characters on the lid of a teacup from the floor of a jail cell. (lindentreebooks.com)
  • Revolution Software announced at Gamescom 2023 that Broken Sword would be coming back, with Broken Sword - The Shadow of the Templars getting a full remake while a sixth title in the series is coming in the future too, under the title Broken Sword - Parzival's Stone . (yahoo.com)
  • At the Reuters China Investment Summit this week, Vice-General Manager of Beijing Sinodrill Yang Junmin said he expected foreign projects to rise from 20% of the company's income to 50% within two years, and that the company is in talks with miners in Australia, Indonesia, and the Philippines for long-term joint venture agreements. (energyandcapital.com)
  • Aoyama, who is famed in China for his renovation of a 35 square-meter house for a family of five in a Beijing hutong, helped the company sell more than 10,000 gift boxes in just two weeks. (xinhuanet.com)
  • Beijing wants to stamp out all dissent, for fear of not being able to control the Internet and prevent a jasmine revolution. (asianews.it)
  • At the same time, however, China remains a developing country with a low per-capita GDP, meaning continued growth (and a corresponding rise in energy use) is a political necessity for Beijing. (thediplomat.com)
  • Li was ordained archbishop of Beijing in 2007 with the approval of Pope Benedict XVI after being named to the post by Chinese authorities months prior. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • A Vatican official hailed the "positive" results of the Holy See's provisional agreement with China Tuesday amid reports that a Holy See delegation is heading to Beijing to extend the deal. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • MANILA , Philippines (FR) - After losing his passport during the Beijing massacre, a Chinese exchange student returned to Manila last June with an exciting and insightful story to tell. (forerunner.com)
  • At the time of the Beijing massacre, Ching informed us, there were many pro-democracy rallies taking place on university campuses all over China. (forerunner.com)
  • He also serves as the president of DFS Energy Consultant (Beijing), Ltd. From 2002 to 2010, Mr. Chen was executive vice president, chief strategy officer, and secretary of the board of China Oilfield Services, Ltd. (ncuscr.org)
  • They also find that Beijing benefits from a set of asymmetric, structural advantages- scale, centralization, and industrial capacity-that may be newly and uniquely determinative for the digital contest, at least as China is engaging in it. (nbr.org)
  • I grew up in the planned economy of Communist China in the early 1980s. (thoughtworks.com)
  • In Communist China, food stamps were reserved for special ingredients, like candy, chocolate and soy sauce. (thoughtworks.com)
  • Because no formal peace between the Republic of China and the People's Republic was ever negotiated, a formal conclusion to the civil war has never been reached. (wikipedia.org)
  • Earlier this year, Li prayed for the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Holy See and the People's Republic of China "as soon as possible" during a Mass at the diocesan seminary, according to the information service of the Pontifical Mission Societies. (catholicnewsagency.com)
  • When he gave his life to the Lord during the Maranatha outreach, Ching had already been planning for six months to be an exchange student at Xiamen University in the People's Republic of China. (forerunner.com)
  • It considers the ICT revolution in all its aspects, outlining the dominant trends, the impact on other countries of China as an ICT exporter, strategies of government censorship and use of ICT for propaganda, the implications of censorship for Chinese governance, the political implications of internet culture and blogging, and the role of domestic and foreign NGOs. (isbn.nu)
  • China intends to define this digital architecture by building its physical infrastructure and corresponding virtual networks and platforms, setting the technical standards that govern them, and shaping the emerging global digital governance regime. (nbr.org)
  • This report judges that China is strategically and deliberately capitalizing on the digital revolution as an opportunity to define and assert control over international resources, markets, and governance. (nbr.org)
  • These encompassing visions have to account for several challenging aspects of contemporary global development, such as poverty issues, inequalities, environmental concerns, transformations of international trade brought by the supply chain revolution, and governance complexities presented by for example the rise of China and its state-capitalist authoritarian model of development. (lu.se)
  • Amid worries that China is heading down another planned-economy path, Hu Deping weighs in with a pro-market perspective and warning that a government-controlled rural cooperative economy must be avoided. (scmp.com)
  • Long overdue, this deeply researched book embeds Kang Youwei and Sun Yatsen's North American journeys in the dynamic networks of overseas Chinese who mobilized amid the fall of the Qing dynasty. (sup.org)
  • how they acted in the 2020 election is just like how the CCP usurped power and solidified its totalitarian regime in China. (theepochtimes.com)
  • 3. How does the described government control of the university system make China totalitarian? (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • The CCP originally allied itself with the nationalist Kuomintang party against the warlords and foreign imperialist forces, but the Shanghai Massacre of Communists ordered by Kuomintang (KMT) leader Chiang Kai-shek in 1927 forced them into the Chinese Civil War spanning more than two decades. (wikipedia.org)
  • Over the past three decades, China has completely focused its energies on economic development albeit without the Communist Party's loosening its political control. (dawn.com)
  • Thus, over the past two decades China avoided being drawn into global conflicts and completely focused its energies on development, which helped it become an economic superpower. (dawn.com)
  • The great shift that catapulted China from economic stagnation to more than three decades of breakneck growth is generally attributed to the top-down "Reform and Opening" policies directed by Deng Xiaoping starting in 1978. (asiasociety.org)
  • During these decades of reform and revolution, millions of far-flung "overseas Chinese" remained connected to Chinese domestic movements. (sup.org)
  • Mr. Chen currently serves in multiple positions, including honorary researcher with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, standing executive committee member of the Chinese Oil Enterprises Association, vice chairman of the Geophysical Exploration Committee of the Chinese Oil Institute, and executive member of the China Geophysics Institute. (ncuscr.org)
  • My research sits at the nexus of interdisciplinary China Studies and Development Studies, and draws inspiration from a wide range of fields across the humanities and social sciences. (lu.se)
  • It follows on from the Carbon Revolution series that we ran in 2021, which looked at how the much-maligned element could be removed from the atmosphere and put to use on Earth. (dezeen.com)
  • In this first in-depth treatment of the consumer revolution in China, fourteen leading scholars of Chinese culture and society explore the interpersonal consequences of rapid commercialization. (ucpress.edu)
  • As a C.V. Starr senior fellow and director for Asian studies at the Council on Foreign Relations - a networked powerhouse - Economy has the advantage of cordial exchanges with a vast network of officials, scholars, dissidents and business executives who provide key insights on China in the epoch of Xi. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Twenty-three real personal stories of Chinese laborers in Russia who fought, along with their Russian comrades, for the victories of the Great October Socialist Revolution all over the Russian territories against the Whites and foreign interventionists from 14 countries from 1917 to 1923. (buybooksontheweb.com)
  • The first part of Pierre Rousset's study deals with the 1920s: the second Chinese revolution of 1925-27, its lessons, the evolution of the Communist movement, the emergence of Maoism and the beginning of the antagonism that developed between the Chinese CP leadership under Mao and the Soviet leadership under Stalin. (iire.org)
  • But in this classic work, Harold R Isaacs uncovers how workers and peasants struggled for a different kind of revolution, one built from the bottom up, ini the 1920s. (leftword.com)
  • Sun Yat-sen went to Japan in 1897 and founded the Tongmenghui, also known as the "Chinese United League" or the "Chinese Revolutionary Alliance," based on several anti-Qing government groups, such as the Huaxinghui and Guangfuhui. (china.org.cn)
  • Historian Zhongping Chen focuses on the transnational activities of Kang Youwei, Sun Yat-sen, and other politicians, especially their mobilization of the Chinese in North America to join reformist or revolutionary parties in patriotic fights for a Western-style constitutional monarchy or republic in China. (sup.org)
  • His new study investigates how two types of elites, and a particular source of revolutionary ideology, contributed to the Xinhai Revolution. (ubc.ca)
  • Writer set out to tell 'the whole story of China in a super readable way for normal people', and her 250-page book The Shortest History of China does so by focusing on individual stories. (scmp.com)
  • China has a similar social situation (lack of respect for human rights, police control on society, widespread poverty, corruption, dictatorship) and was terrified by the anonymous call to the people, posted on line, to take to the streets for peaceful protests. (asianews.it)
  • Pang's work brings a fresh optic to the question of how Chinese people lived, felt and made art in a fraught age of revolution. (versobooks.com)
  • To us, the Chinese people who have lived under a communist regime, such machinations have been commonplace. (theepochtimes.com)
  • Chinese people who have been subject to the many movements that the CCP has started to persecute Chinese people, from the Tiananmen Square massacre to the brutal persecution and genocide of Falun Gong, we can see through these schemes what the CCP really is. (theepochtimes.com)
  • If one reads the statements of those Chinese people who have renounced the CCP on the Tuidang website, one can get a sense of how those people have awakened from the CCP's lies and deceits. (theepochtimes.com)
  • When Ching first arrived in China he did not have a burden for the people. (forerunner.com)
  • He showed me that there were millions of people in China, just like this one, who were not saved and that they were going to hell. (forerunner.com)
  • After that experience, Ching wanted to share with the Chinese people but felt he didn't know how since he was so young in the Lord. (forerunner.com)
  • But how are Chinese people really coming to grips with environmental problems? (bloomsbury.com)
  • In the early 1990s, significant economic reforms began to transform the everyday lives of Chinese people. (thoughtworks.com)
  • When the people involved in the revolution have all died, it will be all too easy to forget or pretend it never happened. (douglas-mcintyre.com)
  • These years were hard for all Chinese people, including women. (enotes.com)
  • Migration of people from Europe to the United States has been a major source of population growth and cultural change even before the time of the American Revolution. (cdc.gov)
  • His predecessors may have also shared this objective but what makes Xi's revolution more distinctive is the strategy he is pursuing to achieve it. (dawn.com)
  • The ultra-leftist revival threatens Xi's plans to revive the economy and turn China into a dominant world power by 2049. (scmp.com)
  • Schneider has published and spoken about her work in China broadly, including the report Feeding China's Pigs: Implications for the Environment, China's Smallholder Farmers and Food Security for IATP in 2011. (iatp.org)
  • My primary area of study to date has been the formulation and implementation of microcredit programmes for rural development in China, as well as financial inclusion initiatives and digital financial penetration more broadly. (lu.se)
  • In addition to these three main strands of research I am also engaged in work related to the field of China Studies more broadly, and am involved in the Open Access movement, particularly through the Made in China Journal , which I co-edit. (lu.se)
  • This ideology was first developed by the late Chinese leader, Deng Xiaoping, in the late 1970s. (dawn.com)
  • China keeps amazing the world with its exhilarating economic progress. (dawn.com)
  • Under President Xi there has been a significant projection of Chinese power on the world stage. (dawn.com)
  • First China, now the world: China's online retail giants are growing at an unprecedented speed. (weforum.org)
  • It's very hard today, seeing the immense power and control of the state, to envisage when that would happen, but it has happened elsewhere in the world in other repressive violent societies and it just seems inconceivable that China would never have that reconciliation with its past. (abc.net.au)
  • From the outside, China had become a monotonous world, a place of endless repetition and imitation, but a closer look reveals a range of cultural experiences, which also provided individuals with an obscure sense of freedom. (versobooks.com)
  • China led the world in technology until the late thirteenth century, but then fell further and further behind Europe for the next 700 years. (thebrowser.com)
  • This is a superb and engaging book that explains how China is grappling with one of the most pressing issues facing our world today. (bloomsbury.com)
  • China and the Environment' will be useful and very enlightening to reader in China and around the world. (bloomsbury.com)
  • And the stakes could hardly be higher: without China on board, prospects for a genuinely sustainable world disappear in a miasma of industrial pollution. (bloomsbury.com)
  • From the food stamps of the '80s to the mega lifestyle centers of today, retail trends that manifested over hundreds of years in the western world unfolded in China in a much shorter time period. (thoughtworks.com)
  • The effect has been to lower sights, shut down discussion of how the world could be radically different, and reinforce conformist thinking at a time when the world cries out for revolution. (revcom.us)
  • The Set the Record Straight project was initiated in the early 2000s to take on the most widespread lies and distortions about this first wave of communist revolution: its great achievements as well as its shortcomings and problems-and how revolution can go further and do better in today's world. (revcom.us)
  • According to the Peterson Institute's Arvind Subramanian, China will soon displace the US as the dominant economic power in the world, wielding a global influence even greater than that of the British Empire at its height. (world.edu)
  • In Kingdom of Characters, Jing Tsu argues that China's most daunting challenge was a linguistic one: the century-long fight to make the formidable Chinese language accessible to the modern world of global trade and digital technology. (lindentreebooks.com)
  • This tension in values is what this thesis will try to examine through the question of whether there will be a harmonic relationship between the Chinese Communist party and the EU in terms of 5G or if there will be a scramble for projecting different values in in the 5G area as the world embarks on its new digital transition. (lu.se)
  • China, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia are five among the six surviving communist regimes in the world after the collapse of the Soviet bloc. (lu.se)
  • The digital revolution promises a new era of opportunity, technological advancement, and freedom of movement and thought. (nbr.org)
  • The six chapters document Beijing's strategic approach to the digital revolution, its growing global influence, and implications for the international order. (nbr.org)
  • Chapter 5 draws on these findings to demonstrate that Beijing's approach to the digital revolution could transform the nature and stakes of geopolitical power-with corresponding direct security risks, as well as broader commercial, political, and normative ones. (nbr.org)
  • In China, the communist leadership and Marxism-Leninism have been written into the constitution, and communism has destroyed 5,000 years of history and culture. (theepochtimes.com)
  • From May 1966, millions of Chinese were persecuted across the country as Chairman Mao, fearing he was losing power, reimposed Maoist thought as the dominant ideology of the party in the country. (abc.net.au)
  • In The Art of Cloning , Pang Laikwan examines this period in Chinese history when ordinary citizens read widely, traveled extensively through the country, and engaged in a range of cultural and artistic activities. (versobooks.com)
  • Ma examines in detail the energy strategies China plans to use to strike a balance between growth and environmental protection. (thediplomat.com)
  • This book examines China's ICT revolution, exploring the social, cultural and political implications of China's transition to a more information-rich and communication-intensive society. (isbn.nu)
  • Today's leading generation grew up as teenagers during those years-a time when China was chaotic, when it was violent, when it simply got out of control. (abc.net.au)
  • This article is focused on the political and social developments that contributed to the Revolution, rather than the military events of the Civil War, so it begins with the founding of the Communist party. (wikipedia.org)
  • Vu is the author or co-editor of eight books, including Vietnam's Communist Revolution: The Power and Limits of Ideology (Cambridge, 2017) and Paths to Development in Asia: South Korea, Vietnam, China, and Indonesia (Cambridge, 2010). (lu.se)
  • Finally, China.org has an interesting run-down of the foreigners who have been executed in China since 2000 - over a dozen. (thediplomat.com)
  • Deborah S. Davis , Professor of Sociology at Yale University, is the author of Long Lives: Chinese Elderly and the Communist Revolution (1991) and coeditor of Chinese Society on the Eve of Tiananmen (1990), Chinese Families in the Post-Mao Era (California, 1993), and Urban Spaces in Contemporary China: The Potential for Autonomy and Community in Post-Mao China (1995). (ucpress.edu)
  • The Unceasing Storm is one step towards creating a truthful record of contemporary China. (douglas-mcintyre.com)
  • I am an area specialist focusing on contemporary China and its global manifestations. (lu.se)
  • 2. How could the restructuring of the university system have hurt the Chinese economy? (carnegiecouncil.org)
  • Not many authors would be as qualified as Economy to write about a neo-Leninist revolution within a clandestine one-party polity. (lse.ac.uk)
  • A sovietologist by training, Economy turned to China in the 1990s when the Soviet Union was no more and Cold War experts faced a difficult job market. (lse.ac.uk)
  • In act one Xi enters the stage as Economy panoramically guides readers through the revolution. (lse.ac.uk)
  • For Xi the CPC must rule supreme, and Economy notes that while the Third Plenum in 2013 declared that the market will have a 'decisive role' in the Chinese economy, in practice 'monopolies that had been broken during the age of Zhu Rongji have now reconstituted themselves' (104). (lse.ac.uk)
  • The visible arm of the state has expanded, yet China's meteoric success in the internet economy could mostly be attributed to its private internet corporations which have tapped into a 'Chinese middle class that is wired, ready to buy and big on convenience' (121). (lse.ac.uk)
  • Economy frames Jack Ma, the founder of Ali Baba who recently declared his long-time party membership, as a paradigmatic entrepreneur and rightfully submits that for Chinese leaders, innovation is seen as key for China's economic future (123). (lse.ac.uk)
  • At a moment when pundits have sensationalised China's rising innovation capacity, Economy's analysis on China's political economy enlightens: China, Economy asserts, innovates, but it rarely, if at all, invents. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Dikötter said that this situation yielded a "silent revolution," in which millions of ordinary villagers "quietly, surreptitiously, and on the sly, reconnected with the past. (asiasociety.org)
  • This book provides access to otherwise unknown stories of environmental activism and forms the first real-life account of China and its environmental tensions. (bloomsbury.com)
  • He has also authored numerous articles on the politics of nationalism, revolution, and state-building in East and Southeast Asia. (lu.se)
  • Eric Fish is the author of the book China's Millennials: The Want Generation, and a writer at Asia Society New York focusing on Chinese youth, politics, education, and social issues. (wesleyan.edu)
  • While I was trying to find an article about Chinese authorities officially dispatched troops to join the Allied (Entente) Powers in Russia in 1916 during WWI, I happened to get the information of the book "Hong Qi Piao Piao" in English. (buybooksontheweb.com)
  • But the essays in this book convey what most readers will consider genuine news: the struggle within China, by Chinese journalists, officials, and ordinary citizens to reverse the trend toward destructive development in their country. (bloomsbury.com)
  • For anyone interested in China, or in the environment, let alone interested in the environment movement in China, this is an invaluable book. (bloomsbury.com)
  • This book uses rich archival sources and a new network approach to examine how reform and revolution in North American Chinatowns influenced political change in China and the transpacific Chinese diaspora from 1898 to 1918. (sup.org)
  • Through network analysis of the origins, interrelations, and influences of Chinese reform and revolution in North America, this book makes a significant contribution to modern Chinese history, Asian American and Asian Canadian history, and Chinese diasporic scholarship. (sup.org)
  • Her recent book, Green Innovation in China was awarded the 2014 Harold and Margaret Sprout Award by the International Studies Association. (ncuscr.org)
  • This book explores the reality of ICT in China, showing clearly that whilst China remains a one-party state, with an ever-present and sophisticated regime of censorship, substantial social and political changes have taken place. (isbn.nu)
  • Overall, this book is a vital resource for anyone seeking to understand a rapidly transforming China, both today and in the years to come. (isbn.nu)
  • The author of this book tries to deduce the character of the Chinese Revolution not from a prioridefinitions adn not from historical analogies, but from the living structure of Chinese society and from the dynamics of its inner forces. (leftword.com)
  • The book focuses on the modern states developed in China and Burma, in contrast to the ones in Europe and America - each commensurate with a specific way of life and a dominant political philosophy that is regionally distinct. (lu.se)
  • This is a lively, detailed, and eminently readable account of the struggles of Chinese environmental citizens' groups to carve out space for information transparency, public participation, and intellectual freedom. (bloomsbury.com)
  • Xi seeks a uniquely Chinese model that he believes will deliver the Chinese dream and perhaps become a standard bearer for other countries disenchanted with the American and European model of liberal democracy (12). (lse.ac.uk)
  • Union believes in universal values whereas China believes in particularistic values. (lu.se)
  • Transpacific Reform and Revolution: The Chinese in North Ame. (sup.org)
  • Economists and pundits alike have shed much ink to discuss China's 40th anniversary of opening up and reform, yet it is a sweeping neo-Leninist political revolution with Chinese characteristics that is remaking the Middle Kingdom: Xi Jinping's revolution. (lse.ac.uk)
  • He also knew many of the Christians who were standing up for democracy in China, and was being watched by Communist Party authorities several months before he left the city of Xiamen. (forerunner.com)
  • Founded less than three years ago, Reflower has more than 7 million followers across 300 Chinese cities. (xinhuanet.com)
  • March 25, Lin Xianbin was sentenced to 10 years in prison for 'inciting subversion' on the Internet for having welcomed the Jasmine revolution. (asianews.it)
  • It's a lengthy read, but well worth it for anyone wondering how China plans to actually implement its "energy revolution" in the coming years. (thediplomat.com)
  • Dr. Lewis has conducted research in China on energy technology and innovation and climate change policy for over 15 years. (ncuscr.org)
  • After years of completely trusting the regime, rationalizing its decisions and betrayals, and criticizing herself for doubting the Party, she realized that no matter how much she loved China, it would never love her back because she had the wrong background-capitalist class origins and overseas connections. (douglas-mcintyre.com)
  • In ancient China, for instance, burning mirrors were used to start cooking fires 3,000 years ago. (dezeen.com)
  • For example, NYU Langone started preparing for the AI revolution more than 5 years ago, and now they have a secure, HIPAA-compliant system. (medscape.com)
  • The Communist victory had a major impact on the global balance of power: China became the largest socialist state by population, and, after the 1956 Sino-Soviet split, a third force in the Cold War. (wikipedia.org)
  • Running during the Solar Revolution series will be The Solar Biennale , a major seven-week event beginning in Rotterdam this week where scientists and designers will come together to discuss a solar-powered future. (dezeen.com)
  • That emancipated the population, thus laying the foundation of modern China. (dawn.com)
  • The defeat of their heroic efforts profoundly shaped the further course of modern Chinese history. (leftword.com)
  • There are remarkable parallels in modern China. (world.edu)
  • Reconciling the social and the environmental sides of growth is the paramount challenge for modern China. (world.edu)
  • Isaacs's loyalty was not to a party or ideology but to the 'martyrs' to whom he dedicated his work and to the millions who fought for a more just and humane Chinese society. (leftword.com)
  • The South China Morning Post reports that Alibaba data shows online and offline shopping leads to an increase in average monthly spend. (econsultancy.com)
  • China is currently in the middle of a renewed crackdown on the drug trade, which has already seen one South Korean put to death after being convicted of drug dealing. (thediplomat.com)
  • The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was formed in 1921 by young urban intellectuals inspired by European socialist ideas and the success of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. (wikipedia.org)
  • His theory of adapting socialism to a given Chinese situation is based on his famous maxim, "It doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice. (dawn.com)
  • Second, he was not impressed with the way that changes were being made in the Soviet Union and he was determined to ensure that similar, softer, versions of Socialism were not adopted in China. (schoolshistory.org.uk)
  • Many historians agree with the Chinese Communist Party official history that the Chinese Revolution dates to the founding of the Party in 1921. (wikipedia.org)
  • Now, with a significant risk of the U.S. dollar and other currencies not backed by hard resources imploding after the greatest spree of worldwide money-printing in history, China is prepared (if not anxious), to exchange its potentially worthless forex holdings for hard assets like oil, metals, and fertilizer. (energyandcapital.com)
  • How do Chinese leaders exploit this history for their own uses? (abc.net.au)
  • now it has allowed the CPC to foster a massive internet market (by blocking US Silicon Valley companies and then cloning them) and monopolise the narrative about Chinese history. (lse.ac.uk)
  • For the preceding century, China had faced escalating social, economic, and political problems as a result of Western imperialism, Japanese imperialism, and the decline of the Qing dynasty. (wikipedia.org)
  • It represents a reassertion of the state in Chinese political and economic life at home, and a more ambitious and expansive role for China abroad. (dawn.com)
  • Stanley Rosen teaches political science at the University of Southern California, specializing in Chinese politics and society. (wesleyan.edu)
  • Mindi Schneider has done extensive fieldwork in northeast and southwest China on the changing political and economic significance of pork, and the relationships between increased meat consumption, peasant dispossession, and environmental crises. (iatp.org)
  • Mr. Chen received his M.B.A. from Peking University and an M.A. from China University of Political Science and Law. (ncuscr.org)
  • The pace of the development of ICT in China has precipitated much speculation about political change and democratisation. (isbn.nu)
  • Vision 2047: Political Revolutions and South Asia from WBT TV on Vimeo . (riazhaq.com)