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e. China has a history of female infanticide which spans 2,000 years. When Christian missionaries arrived in China in the late sixteenth century, they witnessed newborns being thrown into rivers or onto rubbish piles. [1] [2] In the seventeenth century Matteo Ricci documented that the practice occurred in several of China's provinces and said ...
The history of the People's Republic of Chinais often divided distinctly by historians into the Mao eraand the post-Mao era. The country's Mao era lasted from the founding of the People's republicon 1 October 1949[5][6]to Deng Xiaoping's consolidation of power and policy reversal at the Third Plenum of the 11th Party Congresson 22 December 1978.
Mao Zedong and leading revolutionaries proclaim the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949. The Chinese Communist Revolution was a social and political revolution that culminated in the establishment of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949. For the preceding century, China had faced escalating social, economic, and political ...
Peng Shuai in 2019 and Zhang Gaoli in 2013. Tennis star Peng Shuai disappeared after reportedly having accused retired Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Gaoli of sexual assault. On 2 November 2021, Peng posted on Weibo that she had been involved in an extramarital affair with Zhang, who had pressed her to have sex with him three years earlier, and ...
The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was a conflict between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC). In this conflict, the PRC shelled the islands of Kinmen (Quemoy) and the Matsu Islands along the east coast of mainland China (in the Taiwan Strait) in an attempt to take control of Taiwan from the Chinese Nationalist Party ...
July 15, 2024 at 12:46 AM. (Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party commenced its so-called third plenum on Monday, a major meeting held roughly once every five years to map out the general ...
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi meeting the President of the People’s Republic of China, Mr. Xi Jinping, in Wuhan, China on April 27, 2018 China and India have historically maintained peaceful relations for thousands of years of recorded history, but the harmony of their relationship has varied in modern times, after the Chinese Communist Party's victory in the Chinese Civil War in ...
Protesters and dissidents in China espouse a wide variety of grievances, most commonly in the areas of unpaid wages, compensation for land development, local environmental activism, or NIMBY activism. Tens of thousands of protests occur each year. National level protests are less common. Notable protests include the 1959 Tibetan uprising, the ...