POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Hundred Flowers Campaign, Benevolent Dictatorship, Developmentalism
17 Dec 2012
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The people"s wishes for and needs for democracy and freedom are irresistible. premier wen jia-bao, interview with cnn, september 23, 2010. Democracies are far from perfect, there is a lot of work to be done to make democracy work. China counts as 20% of the world"s population. There is serious need for economic and political reform, deepen elections, transparency in government. There have been many potential democratic openings in china. End of the qing dynasty, the opium war of 1842 [the british exported opium to china and many. Population crisis, growing economically but population was growing faster. 80 million to 500 million during the qing dynasty, population explosion led to poverty. China was a backwards case for a long time, economically and technologically. Nationalist revolution led to the end of the qing dynasty, it was a manchurian dynasty. Republican revolution, 1911, the overthrowing of the emperor (and for the first time, china was a country)
