China and Revolution
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China has undergone several periods of revolution and reform in this century, constantly redefining itself within certain parameters. The major revolution of the era was that in 1949 after a long period of conflict. This was a major break with the past, shifting from the imperial history of China to a new era under Communism, but even then the past was not simply cast out and ties remained to older philosophies. Since that time, Chinese communism has been redefined in several waves, with the most recent being labeled economic reform as China follows the rest of the world into a form of tentative capitalism unlike anything attempted since 1949. It is too early to be certain how successful this effort will be. Clearly, much of the West hopes that such moves will be followed naturally by democratization, and in the United Stats, much of the recent argument over most-favored-nations trade status for china was based on the administration's view that open trade would lead to democracy. James and Ann Tyson spent five years in the new China, and they use stories told by the people themselves at the grassroots level to illustrate some of the changes taking place and to speculate about how successful reform will be in the long run. China made an intellectual journey from Confucianism to Communism in the century between the middle of the nineteenth century and the middle of the twentieth century. In the Taiping era, Confucianism prevailed, while by the middle of the next centur
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individuals to engage in petty trades and services areas in which the state sector had performed poorly to help solve a growing unemployment problem. Because they provide much needed services and are flexible in terms of business hours and locations, the business operators have prospered in general and have tended to earn more than state employees, and this in turn has caused some resentment.
The Tysons consider the nature of the entrepreneur by talking about the factories of Zhang Guoxi, a man who clearly had a difficult time achieving his current place in society:
Zhang is one of thousands of go-getters who have amassed millions since senior leader Deng Xiaoping checked the powers of bureaucrats and allowed the market to animate the economy. But few people are as rich as. And no one else had the audacity to father a personal fortune in the cradle of China's Communist revolution during the decade of maoist fanaticism and virulent anticapitalism known as the Cultural Revolution (40).
The entrepreneur has been most successful in regions just outside China, in Hong Kong and Shanghai. Hong Kong today is again part of China, and the success of the entrepreneur in that area has provided a lesson that has not been lost on
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Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page)
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