Essays on China

Policies outlined in the 13th Five Year Plan could tremendously increase China’s contribution to the fight against climate change. In fact, it is already regarded as one of the most successful cases of renewable energy transition, generally XXX to a strong state and effective top-down...

For hundreds of years, China has endured many hardships. They have had territorial issues within their country as well as wars and disputes with other countries. Some of these issues persist today. In recent years, the East and the South China Sea disputes have come...

China has not always been one of the world’s leading economies. The country had gone through many struggles under the leadership of Mao Zedong until his death in the late seventies. From the start of the 1980’s however, through several political as well as socio-economic...

India and China are the most populous countries in the world, but just 60 years ago they experienced devastating famines. A famine is described as a shortage/extreme scarcity of food which can take the lives of millions. Developing countries are especially vulnerable due to the...

The Great Chinese Famine is said to be “the worst catastrophe in China’s history, and one of the worst anywhere.” The devastation which occurred between 1958 and 1962, a decade after the Communist party took power in 1949, resulted in the deaths of 45 million...

At the end of the world war, the world is divided into two, east and west. This is marking the beginning of the Cold War. As the capitulation of Fascist states in the Europe and Asia, the communist and democracy country spread their ideologies to...

The last emperor of the Sui Dynasty, Yangdi, imposed many hardships on his citizens which led to a rebellion among his own people. He fled to the Grand Canal and lived a life of luxury. One of the generals tracked him down and killed him....