HISC57H3 Lecture 1: HISC57-5.docx
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*usually it"s intellectuals of the higher class trickling down. There was no middle class; just a poor and rich. Jap. invasion so america aided communists + saw that comm. better at fighting jap. A lot of aid not being used well by nationalists. 5 year plans and the intents of soviet to disem. communist ideology worldwide. Turn of cent. people begin becoming interested in west. edu. and thus west. texts most pop. was marxist texts; this trickled into villages. West aggression against communist and west support for nat. , what could have changed. 1842-1997 britain had hk; china promised one country two syst"s - hk as allowed econ. stability (free market and china would do whatever econ. practise they were doing) *look at intnl relations, legal material on jurisdiction, sino-philippines relations, territorial disputes + maps and china, scholarship on other situat"s similar.
