The Fall of Communism and China
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The fall of Communism in most of the world has had little effect on the People's Republic of China, a nation which has resisted any move toward democracy or any other significant change after the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square ended in the violent suppression of dissent. Yet China has to change in terms of its degree of modernization in order to compete in the world markets, and the nurturing of trade ties with the United States and others in the West is one aspect of trying to modernize the industrial and manufacturing sectors of China. The leadership may also hope to do this without raising any serious challenge to the political and social structures they have built, but it is not clear that this can be accomplished. Indeed, U.S. trade policy has been based on the belief that increased trade will have a salutary effect on the Chinese leadership and produce democratic reforms over time. The modernization effort is being carried forth not only by those within China or by her trading partners but also by Chinese living abroad and finding ways to increase business for the home country or to develop China in a wide variety of fields, including the scientific, financial, artistic, tourism, and so on. These Chinese are accomplishing their tasks in a number of different ways as they try to alter the course of their homeland and improve the lives of their people. Medical research is an important field for any nation to undertake, and there are particular health concerns i
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ate University of New York at Stony Brook. He used his clout to raise $1 million from Hong Kong benefactors to construct a new research institute at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou (Canton). The institute is devoted to research in theoretical physics,
mathematics, anthropology, and linguistics, fields selected in part because they do not require expensive laboratory equipment. This was the realization of a six-year dream and also represents the latest project in a long effort he has waged to help invigorate science in China and cultivate rapprochement between the two countries. Yang won the Nobel with another researcher for work in "parity laws" that led to important discoveries in elementary physics. He sees himself as a man with roots in both China and the U.S. and so as able to increase understanding between the two.
Mathematician Chern Shiing Shen is professor emeritus at Berkeley and has been instrumental in keeping China and Taiwan up to speed in his discipline by establishing leading math institutes in both countries. In 1946, Chern founded the math institute of the Chinese Academy of Scientists in Beijing, and he maintained collaboration with members of the institute after they fled to Taiwan during the Communis
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