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Ads by Google      NEAS - Resources, Politics Explores the economic, political, and social upheavals that followed the Chinese revolution in 1949 and the cause of subsequent inauguration of reform in the late 1970's. Chinese Politics: The Transformation and the Era of Reform, Stanford University Chinese policy and law enforcement stifle religious activity and thought even in school and at home. http://neas.miis.edu/resources-politics.html      Chinese Politics and Human Rights After Zhao became the party General Secretary, the economic and political reforms he had championed came under increasing attack. Hu Yaobang, a protege of Deng and a leading advocate of reform, was blamed for the protests and forced to resign as CCP General Secretary in January 1987. In the early 1960s, State President Liu Shaoqi and his protege, Party General Secretary Deng Xiaoping, took over direction of the party and adopted pragmatic economic policies at odds with Mao's revolutionary vision. http://www.index-china.com/index-english/Politics-s.html      Zhao Ziyang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Deng Xiaoping saw the "Sichuan Experience" as the model for Chinese economic reform and had Zhao inducted into the Politburo as an alternate member in 1977 and as a full member in 1979. Chinese Leader Purged for Supporting Tiananmen Protesters Dies at 85 (The New York Times) Purged Chinese Leader Zhao Ziyang Dies at 85 (The Washington Post) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhao_Ziyang   (2439 words)      190.434 Advanced Topics in Chinese Politics - Prof. Tsai Susan Shirk, The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993). This seminar has two main objectives: first, to analyze the Western social science literature on the politics of the People’s Republic of China, with a focus on the post-1978 reform era; and second, to give students an opportunity to conduct research on a focused dimension of Chinese politics. The second part of the course explores central debates concerning the political economy of reform, including the origins of reform, central-local relations, competing explanations for China’s economic growth, and the consequences of corruption. http://www.jhu.edu/~polysci/faculty/tsai/190434S02.html   (2439 words)      China's reform and opening-up promotes human rights, says premier(12/11/03) The Chinese premier quoted former US President Franklin Roosevelt as saying that "true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence," and "necessitous men are not free men." Visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said in Harvard University on Dec.10 that China's reform and opening-up aims at promoting human rights in China and the two are mutually dependentand reinforcing. "If our friends come to China and see for themselves, they willbe able to judge objectively and appreciate the progress made there in human rights and the Chinese Government's hard work in upholding human rights since the beginning of reform and opening-up," he said. http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/zt/zgrq/t56058.htm   (2439 words)      Purged Chinese Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang dies Although the ruling Communist Party discredited his political reform plans, his economic reforms in the 1980s set the stage for the opening up of China's economy and 25 years of dramatic economic growth. "The Chinese government, at the very least, should have an open and public funeral for Zhao Ziyang," Jiang Peikun, whose 17-year-old son was gunned down in the streets of Beijing during the 1989 protest, told AFP. He had served as the head of the Communist Party and prime minister for much of the 1980s. http://www.theallineed.com/news/0501/172418.htm   (2439 words)      People's Daily Online -- China promises more flexible exchange rate At the invitation of US Treasury Secretary John W. Snow, Chinese Finance Minister Jin Renqing led an official delegation to the United States to co-chair the 16th session of the China-US Joint Economic Committee (JEC)), a forum first held in 1980, on September 30,2004. In the Joint Statement released after the session, The Chinese side reaffirmed China's commitments to further advance reform and push ahead firmly and steadily to a market-based flexible exchange rate and described the steps the Chinese government has taken to create conditions to establish a more flexible exchange rate. The 16th session of the China-US joint Economic Committee was held in Washington DC on September 30,2004. http://english.people.com.cn/200410/07/eng20041007_159244.html   (877 words)      Transnational China Project Commentary: Yang Chengxu on Economic Development, Political Stability and Democratization Fourthly, the Chinese government has attached great importance to the rule of the nation by law, and with the policy of reform and opening up to the outside world it has worked very hard to make many laws to meet the needs of development for a socialist market economy. According to my own experience and observation, this constitutes one of the very important factors behind the maintenance of political stability because the policy of reform and opening up has brought about real and tangible benefits to the Chinese people. The opening up policy has also attracted foreign investment and technology that is now playing an indispensable role in China's political and economic life, opening the eyes of the Chinese people and contributing to the development of China's democratization. http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~tnchina/commentary/yang1200.html   (877 words)      Department of State Washington File: Text: Statement of 13th China-U.S. Joint Economic Committee He pointed out that the Chinese Government has made the proposal of formulating the 10th Five-Year Plan, which states that development is the theme with the economic restructuring at the core, reform and opening-up and technological advancement are the driving forces, and improving the living standards of the Chinese people is the ultimate goal. At the invitation of U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, Chinese Finance Minister Xiang Huaicheng led an official delegation to the United States to co-chair the 13th session of the China-U.S. Joint Economic Committee (JEC) on October 26. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and his Chinese counterpart, China's Finance Minister Xiang Huaicheng, co-chaired the opening of the 13th session of the China-U.S. Joint Economic Committee (JEC) in Washington, D.C. October 26. http://usinfo.org/wf-archive/2000/001027/epf503.htm   (1237 words)      Comparative Politics Courses In this course, we will read political and literary stories and essays from the May Fourth Era of the early twentieth century to the present era of economic reform and integration into the global community in order to examine how Chinese literature reflects political change and how politics influences Chinese writers and their works. The development of Chinese politics, with emphasis on the period of reform and opening to the world after 1976 and the contemporary politics of the People’s Republic of China. Prerequisite: 103 or 201 or consent of instructor. http://www.coloradocollege.edu/Registrar/Dept/PS/ComparativePolitics.html   (1237 words)      YES, VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS WERE LENINIST REVOLUTIONARIES By Stephen J. Morris Chinese Communist cadres directly supervised the greatest atrocity in Vietnamese history: the land reform campaign of 1953 1956 in which thousands of innocent peasants were murdered on trumped up charges of being ''landlord exploiters.'' Chinese and Soviet archives show that Ho Chi Minh sent requests to Beijing for military and economic assistance in October 1949, and that Mao and Stalin agreed in January 1950. All the institutions of totalitarianism that were to become a staple of the first 40 years of Vietnamese Communist rule the party dictatorship, the People's Army, the Public Security Bureau, nationalized industry, collectivized agriculture, and the ''reform through labor'' prison camps were copied from China. http://www.adetocqueville.com/cgi-binloc/searchTTC.cgi?displayZop+4204   (1237 words)      IGCS - Politics (China WWW VL - Internet Guide for Chinese Studies) It provides Chinese officials at all levels a resource center for governance and election affairs and gives scholars worldwide the opportunity to study Chinese politics and offer reform measures. The database (headlines only!) is searchable in English and Chinese (Big5 and GB). Self description: "The Language and Politics in Modern China working papers form part of a collaborative research project, 'Keywords of the Chinese Revolution: The Language of Politics and the Politics of Language in 20th-Century China', funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Pacific Cultural Foundation. http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/igpol.htm   (1237 words)      Opening Speech The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is the supreme organ in its field in this country, and we deem it our unshakable duty to provide policy-making backings and proposals for China's economic restructuring and opening-up efforts. China's policy of economic reform and opening up to the outside world has been in force for the last two decades and more. In the past, the academy played an indispensable role in implementing the policy of reform and opening up to the outside world; in the future, we will continue to do our bit for the prosperity of the Chinese economy. http://www.cipe.org/china/opening_speech.htm   (1237 words)      Chinese Political Culture Elizabeth J. Perry and Christine Wong, eds., The Political Economy of Reform in Post-Mao China (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985); Victor Nee and David Stark, Remaking the Economic Institutions of Socialism: China and Eastern Europe (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989). Also William L. Parish, "Factions in Chinese Military Politics," China Quarterly, no. 56 (October-December 1973), pp. For recent critiques of both the totalitarian and pluralist perspectives, see Vivienne Shue, The Reach of the State: Sketches of the Chinese Body Politic (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988), chapter 1; and Andrew G. Walder, Communist Neo-Traditionalism: Work and Authority in Chinese Industry (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), chapter 1. http://www.tsquare.tv/links/Perry.html   (1237 words)      Study Questions Lectures added: Chinese attempts at Reform; Meiji Restoration; Meiji Economic Reform; Reaction to Meiji Restoration; Remember to consult the BBS assignments on Dower and on Snow Lion...as well as the assignment on recent Chinese art. What is the conflict between the Chinese traditional family and the struggles of modernization as represented by Pa Chin? http://mcel.pacificu.edu/mcel/barlow/Fall01/H112'01/exams01/study.html   (1850 words)      Chinese Politics: 1949 to Present Week 2--Jan. 14-16  Economic Development and Chinese Politics Under Mao Week 5--Feb. 4-6  Dissent and Limited Political Reform: The Democracy Movement in 1989 Yunxiang Yan, “The Politics of Consumerism in Chinese Society,” in China Briefing 2000, pp. http://oregonstate.edu/Dept/pol_sci/fac/li/ps348syl.htm   (1850 words)      The American Enterprise: The “Ugly American” Meets the “Ugly Chinese” At home, the modern Chinese views his fellow Chinese pressing for democratic reform with contempt. The policies of the Chinese government since the Tiananmen Massacre of 1989 have emphasized that economic development is sacrosanct and that political liberalization is destabilizing. As the Congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission stated in its recently released 2005 report, the Chinese government has taught its citizens to blindly hunger for Chinese greatness, for the rise of Chinese power. http://www.taemag.com/issues/articleID.18843/article_detail.asp   (633 words)      Internal Struggles & World War II Although materially supported by the United States and at first far superior to the CCP in numbers, the KMT lacked an inspiring ideology or genuine economic reform program. Like other Chinese regimes, the KMT government was beset by ineffectual administration, corruption, factionalism, and political repression. In 1923, Chinese Communists were ordered as individuals to join the KMT, and the next year the KMT began to be reorganized along Leninist lines. http://www.bergen.org/AAST/Projects/ChinaHistory/INTER.HTM   (633 words)      National Economic Council's Sperling on China/WTO Despite this, some of the same politicians in the United States who have spent much of their careers denouncing communism now turn their back on an agreement that promises to foster market reform and economic liberalization in what for decades has been the most heavily populated command-and-control economy in the world. It will mean that when a U.S. firm installs in an interoffice e-mail in its office in China, the Chinese employee can be in daily touch not only with his colleagues in China, but with potentially thousands of employees here in the United States. The agreement between the United States and China on that country's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) is a "win-win" situation for both countries says Assistant to the President for Economic Policy Gene Sperling. http://www.usembassy.it/file2000_02/alia/a0022426.htm   (633 words)      Chinese Politics Deng needed elements of political reform to make the economic reform package work. Some advocated retaining the best of China (the Chinese essence or spirit) and adapting those things from the West that would be useful (the West for practical matters, use). He needed a predictable political environment and a better judicial system so that foreign investors would feel comfortable investing in China. http://people.uncw.edu/tanp/ChinaPowerPoint.html   (633 words)      Financial reform policy Beijing - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said last Tuesday that China would continue to maintain the stability of its currency at a rational and balanced value, while speeding up financial reform, stepping up financial supervision and regulating financial order to improve competitiveness in its financial sector. Wen said that while the country's financial situation was good on the whole with important progress in reform and opening up of the country's financial sector last year, the volume of credit loans grew too fast and the structure of credit loans was out of balance. Addressing a national meeting on banking, securities and insurance, the Premier said China would push forward market- oriented reform of its interest rates in a stable way, and gradually improve the exchange rate formulation mechanism for its currency to keep the exchange rates at a rational and balanced level. http://app1.chinadaily.com.cn/star/2004/0212/bz9-1.html   (633 words)      In China, Two Books but One Party (washingtonpost.com) The party has sought to minimize Zhao's role in China's economic rise and maintains that his opposition to the Tiananmen crackdown was a "serious mistake." Some outside scholars have also argued that Zhao was an authoritarian leader who backed the pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989 only in a bid to seize power. In Yang's book, published just weeks before Zhao's death in January, the deposed party leader presents his views in his own words, criticizing current leaders for banning even discussion about political reform and once again rejecting the party's justification of the Tiananmen massacre. The exception made for Jiang has led some political observers in Beijing to suggest the book is an attempt by the former president to retain influence in retirement. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28236-2005Mar11.html   (633 words)      communism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 Although economic reform has been allowed in these countries, their Communist parties have proved unwilling to submit to popular democratic movements; in 1989 the Chinese government brutally crushed student demonstrations in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. Although the French Revolution ended without satisfying radical demands for economic egalitarianism, the voice of François Babeuf was strongly raised against economic inequality and the power of private property. The year 1848 was also marked by the appearance of The Communist Manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the primary exposition of the socioeconomic doctrine that came to be known as Marxism. http://www.bartleby.com/65/co/communism.html   (633 words)      ePrintsUQ - Entrepreneurship, Institutional Structures and Business Performance of the Overseas Chinese On the one hand, this is partly due to the satisfactory performance and rapid economic growth on newly industrialised areas such as Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan, which are influenced by traditional Chinese culture; on the other hand, it is promoted by the new institutional economics which has recently been in the limelight. This paper is a part of the report Business Development of the Overseas Chinese – The Case of Four East Asian Countries sponsored by the National Science Foundation of China. The paper also draws some conclusions from the comparative analysis of the Sino-Western cultures, which may be used for reference in the process of reform of state-owned enterprises in China. http://eprint.uq.edu.au/archive/00001126   (339 words)      Pacific Affairs - Abstracts (Volume 71, Issue 3) The democratic nature of the Indian state also explains the limited nature of change, for the requirements of legitimacy of such a state place limits on reform that imposes sacrifices on key societal groups, particularly in the absence of a crisis. Attempts by China to appoint an offical representative in the colony constitute a theme of Anglo-Chinese relations vis-a-vis Hong Kong. The Hong Kong government was traditionally opposed, while the Chinese government seemed not concerned about the compromise to claims of sovereignty over Hong Kong which such proposals necessarily acknowledged. http://pacificaffairs.ubc.ca/recent/ab71-3.html   (464 words)      Geography 252 section 1: Topics in Economic Geography Jean Oi, 1992, “Fiscal reform and the economic foundations of local state corporatism in China,&; in World Politics, 45(1):99-126. This seminar explores the economic and political forces behind urban expansion in cities of the capitalist, post-socialist, and the third world in the last half century. The movement of legalizing the informal property rights for the squatters in Latin American cities draw an interesting comparison with the policy of privatizing housing ownership in Eastern European and Chinese cities. http://geography.berkeley.edu/ProgramCourses/CoursePagesFA2003/Geog252.1.html   (1654 words)      Encyclopedia topic: Chinese economic reform Chinese economic reform, unlike perestroika (An economic policy adopted in the former Soviet Union; intended to increase automation and labor efficiency but it led eventually to the end of central planning in the Russian economy), has been an economic success, generating over two decades of rapid economic growth. However, they have not argued against the premise that many of the reforms involve adopting economic policies that are in use in capitalist nations, and one of the premises of Chinese economic reform is that China should not avoid adopting "whatever works" for ideological (additional info and facts about ideological) reasons. The goal of Chinese economic reform was to generate sufficient surplus value to finance the modernization (Making modern in appearance or behavior) of the mainland Chinese economy. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/c/ch/chinese_economic_reform.htm   (776 words)      Sound Money Tips » Reader Picks The third winner of Professor Jinglian Wu’s new book “China From The Inside: Understanding and Interpreting Chinese Economic Reform” is “dongzhimensch”. The fifth winner of Professor Jinglian Wu’s new book “China From The Inside: Understanding and Interpreting Chinese Economic Reform” is “geoplanarian”. The fourth winner of Professor Jinglian Wu’s new book “China From The Inside: Understanding and Interpreting Chinese Economic Reform” is “Jack Straw”. http://soundmoneytips.com/by/type/reader-picks   (339 words)      7.2_Naughton.doc Chinese policy makers have failed to achieve consensus about or articulate a vision of the post-reform economic system, despite of their propaganda. Shortcomings The failure in the Chinese economic reform is to develop institutions (e.g. The distinctiveness of China’s economic reform The distinctive pattern of China’s economic reform emerged from the interaction between government policy and the often unforeseen consequences of economic change. http://www.wws.princeton.edu/wwac/561/7.2_Naughton.doc   (683 words)      The Chinese Economy Chinese economic reform in 1978 is an example of the possibility of predicting a major social change by examining the prevailing conditions. Reform of Chinese state-owned enterprises is an example of a gradual approach to economic reform through experimentation. The success of the economic reform is judged mainly by the rapid economic growth, and not merely by the extent to which the economy has been transformed to a market economy. http://www.oycf.org/Perspectives/12_063001/chinese_econ.htm   (4677 words)

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