Can the Chinese Government "Catch the Wind?" Persuasive Essay by Nicky

An argument for China's one child policy to be reversed.
# 151467 | 1,786 words | 6 sources | MLA | 2012 | US
Published on Jun 11, 2012 in Asian Studies (General) , Political Science (Non-U.S.)


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Description:

The paper discusses China's one child policy that was enacted in the late 1970s by Deng Xiao Ping to help promote economic growth in China. The paper points out the initial positive consequences of this policy, but focuses on the negative impacts this policy has had on the economy and the population. The paper contends that it is time for the one child policy to be reversed, and self-regulation to be allowed.

Outline:
Introduction: "Little Emperors" and "Little Empresses"
Catching the Wind

From the Paper:

"The late Deng Xiao Ping was not a man for emotional expression. Deng marched by the side of the Communist leader Chairman Mao Tse Tung on The Long March and fought through China's brutal and bloody Civil War (1937-1949) at Mao's side. Then, during the infamous "Let One Hundred Flowers" campaign, when Mao pretended to ask for criticism from his comrades and later punished the ones who spoke up, Deng was branded by Mao as a "capitalist roader", and was severely punished. In one sense, the former Communist emperor of China had been quite correct. Mao had sensed or suspected that Deng wanted to see China develop economically under a free market system. A few years after Mao's death, then, it was Deng who led China into its recent high-energy stage of capitalist development with the following slogan on his lips: "White cat, black cat, choose the one that kills the rat!" For Deng, capitalist development had been the "the one that kills the rat." Deng's one child policy, moreover, had been one of the most important insurance plans put in place to insure the speed and power of Chinese capitalist development. What this mean was that Deng chose to channel the capital surplus of the Chinese people into factories, railroads, power plants, and the damming the Yangtze River with the massive Three Gorges Dam, rather than into an ever larger Chinese population."

Sample of Sources Used:

  • "The US-China Trade Imbalance" Asia Times. Available online at: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/HD01Cb05.html
  • "GDP Growth in China 1952-2009", Chinability. Graph and figures available online at: http://www.chinability.com/GDP.htm
  • "China's Economic Miracle: The High Price of Progress", CBC. Available online at: http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/china/
  • "US Officials Head to China amid Uneasy Trade Relations", Earth Times. Available online at: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/291195,us-officials-head-to-china-amid-uneasy-trade-relations.html
  • "China's One-Child Policy to Cripple Chinese Economy", LifeSiteNews. Available online at: http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2004/feb/04021806.html

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