[Artemisia] Event Thoughts

[Morgan Wolf]

Thanks, that helps, and is close enough to the paper I had to turn in before
midnight last night that I think I did okay on it.

Morgan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Diana Hoff" <dianahoff at yahoo.com>
To: "Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list" <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 3:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Artemisia] Event Thoughts


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> Morgan Wolf <morganwolf at sofast.net> wrote:
>
> For now, anybody know how
> Deng Xiao Ping help multinational corporations get established in China?
>
> Morgan
>
>
> Ooooo fun! I love history...even when it is pretty recent. :-) And it
gives me a break from my Physics homework (tee hee).......and ya gotta love
CNN!
>
> Deng XiaoPing
>
>      His goal was a wealthy, modern, powerful China -- one worthy of
international respect. His method was the open door, establishing ties with
the United States and other Western nations, encouraging international
investment, private enterprise, family farming, and other aspects of a
market economy.
>      For Deng -- who never officially took the posts of Communist Party
chief or head of government -- the guiding principle was pragmatism. "It
doesn't matter if a cat is black or white," he was fond of saying, "as long
as it catches mice." The results were immediate and impressive. The standard
of living in China shot up. Freed from the shackles of Maoism, the people
rediscovered style, music, romance, fun, and hope.
>       But liberalization also led to economic dislocation and to outbursts
of public discontent -- tensions which finally exploded on the streets of
Beijing in the spring of 1989.
>        It was the most serious challenge to Communist rule since the
revolution. But it was crushed, at a cost of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of
lives, on the orders of Deng. Tiananmen Square became a vivid symbol of
Chinese leaders' fierce opposition to democracy.
>          But despite his opposition to political liberalization, Deng
never abandoned his vision of economic reform. Following the collapse of
Soviet communism, Deng concluded that the best hope of keeping the Chinese
Communist Party in power -- and avoiding another Tiananmen -- was to deliver
the economic goods to the people.
>          And so, in 1992, after a year out of public view, Deng emerged
from retirement and launched a campaign for more and faster capitalist-style
reform.
>         The country responded with a boom that gave China the highest
economic growth rate in the world and left the Communist Party in power but
increasingly irrelevant to the daily lives of the people, who became more
interested in making money than making revolution.
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>
> sigh...now back to my physics homework...interspersed with daydreams of
the upcoming Masked Ball ! !
>
> -Lady Dainya
> Chronicler - Barony of Arn Hold