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The Great Leap Forward in Hunan
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The central leadership of the party, by and large, did not see any urgent need for discounting the Soviet style economic system as mentioned in this paper, and major debates occurred in party forums between leaders who adhered to an urban model of socialism, those who stressed industrialAbstract:
on the one hand, would result in ’greater, faster, better and more economical results’ and on the other, keep alive the Chinese revolutionary ideology. As is well known, on this issue Mao was unable to carry the rest of the party with him. The central leadership of the party, by and large, did not see any urgent need for discountinuing the Soviet style economic system. During the period 1955-58 the party remained in a constant dilemma as to whether it should continue with or change its policies. Major debates occurred in party forums between leaders who adhered to an urban model of socialism, those who stressed industrialread more
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The Rise of a Chinese Bourgeoisie and the Potential for Democratic Transition
TL;DR: The authors examines the logic of China's political history and the potential for its democratic political transformation in the 21st century using the ideas of Moore and Skocpol to explain the emergence of the liberal democratic political order in the 18th century western transformations as organized by an emerging bourgeoisie.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate a long-run trend of Brazilian human capital that extends back to the very beginning of the 18th century and show that human capital endowment of international migrants can induce effects on economic development that persist until today.
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TL;DR: The authors discusses different accounts of Shanghai Modern, the period between 1920s and 1940s in which the city occupied a unique position within China and the world, and places discussions of this period in the context of the resurgence of urban led modernization in China, led by Shanghai.
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Bringing it Back Home: The Urbanization of the British Shopping Mall as the West Goes East
TL;DR: The second coming of the shopping mall, re-branded under the banner of ‘urban regeneration, increasingly defines what happens in the centre of British cities today as mentioned in this paper, as well as how the typology is evolving as a culturally hybrid proposition borne of insights drawn from its Eastern counterparts.
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The Impact of Chinese Products on Zimbabwean Women
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