Essays on China

This essay will examine urbanization in China by starting with a brief background of urbanization in Asia, specifically comparing it with Western countries. Then, it will focus on three specific issues – air pollution, public transit and “left-behind” children and elderly people – that have...

After three decades of double-digit growth, slowdown due to a diminishing technological gap and a declining working age population has furnished a compelling need for the 18th third plenum this year. The Party’s so-called “383 Scheme” provides a potential roadmap for a much more open...

The urbanization process of Chinese megacities has witnessed a variety of forms and paces since the marketing and the commodification of housing in the 1980s. One of the most remarkable phenomena is the transformation of agricultural land into urban areas through the formation of urban...

In 2013, Chinese President, Xi Jinping announced the launch of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This project, described as a “Silk Road for the 21st Century” would be the worlds largest infrastructure project, encompassing 65 countries over 3 continents, comprising of 32% of world...

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...