China In Transition

Turning point is very difficult and challenging for everyone. This ideas are in I Never Had it Made by Jackie Robinson, it’s about a baseball player, made a history as the first African American player “broke the color line” and played in Major League baseball team. Warriors Don’t Cry by Melba Beals, it’s about the first African American to go to the same school as the white kids. And “The Father of Chinese Aviation” by Rebecca Maksel, it’s about a man created China’s first airplane. it’s about a man created China’s first airplane. Everyone have a goals, and tried to make it come true. Jackie Robinson, Melba Beals, and Feng Ru all experienced life changing events that impact their countries.

Women have had changing roles in every society for centuries. Those who were born in ancient China lived oppressed lives under the constant pressure to live and work by the rules and expectations set by society around them. They were given nearly the same rights as a servant. Things like having a say in how much work they had to do throughout the day, why they had to bind their feet, who they were set to marry, and so on. Women were expected to do all the household jobs such as cleaning, cooking, preparing ancestral offerings and child rearing. Confucius taught that “a woman’s greatest duty is the bear a son.” These roles that were set for women in ancient China are very important to analyze because they allow us to learn from the past and see what must be done in order to not make the same mistake twice. Two articles in Discovering the Global Past, “Mother-in-law Is Cruel” by Zheng Xie and “The Ways of Confucius and Modern Life” by Chen Duxiu, offer this crucial historical insight on women’s roles in family and society in ancient China. Although their means of conveyance vary, both authors portray the idea that by keeping women oppressed, society as a whole will become stagnant which in turn will lead to something that is more inhumane than what is currently present.

In a village left behind as the rest of the China is progressing, the fate of women remains in the hands of men. Old customs and traditions reign supreme, not because it is believed such ways of life are best, but rather because they have worked for many years despite harsh conditions. In response to Brother Gu’s suggestion of joining communist South China’s progress, Cuiqiao’s widower father put it best: “Farmer’s have their own rules.”

With the goal of equality, Mao Zedong led a communist movement which aimed to reform education and social norms, with a strong focus on the lower-class, as it was believed that “without the poor peasants there [could] be no revolution”. In theory, this political reform would have revolutionized China and provided every citizen with the resources needed to sustain a modest lifestyle, although corruption and greed inevitably inhibited its complete success. The Communist Revolution in China during the mid-20th century supported the development of women’s rights that would have been rejected by former government systems. This was established through laws and reforms that promoted equality regarding family structure, education, and labor. Despite these strides of progress, patriarchal ideals of the past were still present, and women were still mostly excluded from political leadership and expected to take domestic

This investigation will cover women’s participation in the Long March, the People’s Republic of China Constitution in 1949, Mao’s policies for foot binding, the 1950 Marriage Law, and women’s increased participation in society. I will analyze journal articles and books from Western and Asian authors to evaluate various historians’ views on Communists’ policies towards women and the effects they had on Communists’ rise to power. Kellee Tsai’s Women and the state in post-1949 rural China and John King Fairbank’s “The Great Chinese Revolution: 1800-1985” are two of the principle sources and will be evaluated.

First, Chinese society is still in the process of social forms of agriculture, and gradually deepened since millennia sexist, patriarchal consciousness and spiritual entity unlikely to be essential impact even be destroyed. Salient features of the agricultural community and the agricultural civilization is centralization and personal attachment, the extent of human society that is a lower degree of independence, because of this social form of production, and other social activities objectively excluded women, men occupied the absolute rule status, feminist issues is bound to be "shadowing." In recent decades, although China has laws to protect women's rights and social organizations, but due to the lack of social forms the background and achieve the objective reality of feminism, these laws and organizations tend to become some kind of a symbol or a "national attitude."

Mao Zedong believes that women being oppressed in the Chinese Culture is one reason Miss Zhao ended her own life. Women in China have to show obedience to their husband and father leaving them with no free will. In public areas, Mao states, not a woman could be seen because women were segregated from men, “men and women are extremely segregated, that women are not allowed a place in society” . When women marry poor they are to work on the farm and tend to the family, whereas if they marry wealthy they are stay at home trophy wives. In traditional Chinese culture is was common for wealthy women to have bound feet which almost immobilized them, Mao believes is used as a means to oppress women. Women had little to no part in Chinese society as they are not allowed to do

It protected women from demeaning feudal practices by abolishing forced marriage, brideprice, concubinage, and child betrothal. Radically, the law even guaranteed women equal right to property, the right to petition for divorce, and the choice to keep their own family names. Although this law sounds progressive in the advancement of women’s rights, the underlying reason for its implementation strayed far from the betterment in quality of life for women. The Chinese Communist Party needed a solution to the shortage of labor that was hindering the progression of the economy. The social reconstruction of the image of women was enacted to give them a new, productive role in society. The ultimate goal of this movement was party solidarity. Mao Zedong, the Chinese Communist figure head, indicated that women began to hold up “half the sky”.

In the past decade, China has proven their potential to be peaceful in their rise to power. The United States was acknowledged as one of the leading world powers in the late 19th century, following the Cold War. This power came to be as a result of significant domestic industrialization and widespread international influence. However, China’s case is a bit more complex. It’s rise to power was marked by the Communist Party’s completion of its sixth 5 year plan in 1982. Despite the country’s rapid development, much corruption and violence had occurred in its beginning years. Still, China will likely not repeat the same mistakes and will avoid international conflict in its advancement. This can be predicted by examining the country’s current economic growth, stable relationships with trading partners, and their keen focus on keeping citizens satisfied with the government.

In the political manuscript, “The Communist Manifesto” (1848), the ideas of no discrimination and equality between genders were emulated and a central part of Marx’s theory, “He has not even a suspicion that the real point aimed at [by communists] is to do away with the status of women as mere instruments of production.”(Marx, 1848). Overall, Marx addresses the differences in treatment of genders such as different pay, by criticising the economic and social disadvantages experiences by women during that period.

In chapter fifteen of our textbook, Understanding the Political World, it classifies China as a ‘transitional developed country.’ More specifically, China is defined as one of the five BRICS countries. These countries consist of; Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The BRICS countries do not share a global region, political systems, or economic systems. The textbook argues that the three main goals of these countries are prosperity, stability, and security. In a 2015 article, published in the Journal of Democracy, written by Carl Minzner, entitled China After the Reform Area, Minzner articulates many of the same ideas about China that Danziger and Smith put forward in the textbook about all of the BRICS countries.

"The 19th century belonged to the British. The 20th century belonged to the United States. But the 21st century belongs to China,"

The rise of the People’s Republic of China (China) in today’s world has evolved into a new reality. In this essay, it will be noted that although China is increasing its prominence in international politics, China will not be a dominant global actor in the near future. In this evaluation, the phrase “dominant global actor” will be defined, and the parameters for “near future” will be set to the next two decades from now. This essay will then outline examples on how China has increased its presence to affirm its increasing prominence in international politics before considering the many arguments that will show why China will not be a dominant global actor in the near future.

China has undergone dramatic change in the past few decades. In contrast to its isolation from the international community in the 50s and 60s, China today is not only a member of virtually every international organization but even has the potential power to question and reshape the structure and norms of the institutions it has joined. No other country has undergone as total a transformation as has China during the last quarter of the twentieth century. The great change could be traced back to 1978 when Deng Xiaoping and his associates launched a reform that has changed the country in all spheres. Under Deng’s leadership, a step-by-step opening policy was introduced concurrently. The government shifted the economic strategy to emphasize the production of goods to sale abroad; five special economic zones were established as means of encouraging foreign investment; the country has joined a large number of UN-affiliated institutions that are setting the ground rules of the 21st century in respect of open trade arrangements, security partnerships, arms control regime, war against terrorism, environmental preservation, and defense of human rights (though not without conservation).

As China becomes a rising superpower on the geopolitical stage, it now faces itself in challenging situations that can undermine its foreign policies. To say the least, even if China’s economy and power is growing in a rapid rate, the nation now faces itself in a series of political tensions that can affect its standing in the region and in the world. Though as China continues to expand its foreign influences around the globe through its growing military and economic power, the world is current watching and waiting for the Chinese government’s next big move.