POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Hundred Flowers Campaign, Communist Party Of China, Polyarchy
13 Nov 2012
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Laws past are unconstitutional not majority consent of people (only 50%) voting. Counterargument: parties become obsessed with majority essentially become the same. Democracies are far from perfect argue this compare it with communism and fascism. End of the qing dynasty: ends at the beginning of the 20th century, opium war of 1842 china vs. british british and been exporting opium to china many became addicted and it became a social scourge of south china. China are pissed, start a war and get destroyed: 1895 war with japan. Qing dynasty population was 80 million: 1850 500 million, dependent on its export economy. Other communities were beginning to challenge china in its economic export growth. China was a backwards country very poor: 3) nationalist revolution. Manchurian dynasty the rulers were not the han, they were an outside power. Chance to stand up to its outside powers.
