POL SCI 51A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Arbeitslager, Wen Jiabao, Sun Yat-Sen
25 Mar 2016
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There is a need for poliical reform in china more transparent elecions, etc. Premier of china, wen jia-bao, believes the needs for democracy and freedom are irresisible. Modern china there has been many democraic openings in modern china: End of the qing dynasty: opium war of 1842 fought between china and the briish. The briish exported opium to china, which made people there addicted; the chinese wanted revenge; they lose badly: 1845 china goes to war with japan they are defeated by them as well. There was thus a republican revoluion led by. They overthrow the emperor, but he does not leave yet. China is now inally a republic; there is not a modern chinese republic with a modern. Sun yat-sen (new president) was to re construct china; to make it modern. China was no longer a civilizaion, an emperial dynasty, but rather. China would be a modern naion that would be self-reliable.
