How Long to Read The Origins of Chinese Social Revolutions

By De Zhong Gao

How Long Does it Take to Read The Origins of Chinese Social Revolutions?

It takes the average reader and 30 minutes to read The Origins of Chinese Social Revolutions by De Zhong Gao

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Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Orientalism / Sinology - Chinese / China, grade: "-", McGill University, language: English, abstract: Calling for public support and mobilization are generally considered taboo in authoritarian regimes. Yet, during the course of his February 1989 visit to Ukraine, Gorbachev (1931- ) appealed to his public supporters to help fight the enemies of reform and accelerate political and economic reformist programs, "You keep up the pressure. We [the Party] will press from the top, and you keep pressing from the bottom. Only in that way can [social transformations such as] perestroika succeed." This essay argues that in China, social transformations originate from the mass peasantry, but in order for social transformations to be effective, they need to be transformed into political dogma through effective leadership and party organization. The Rousseauist belief that the "goodness of simple men" can change mankind is not sufficient to revolutionize society, and rule out or alleviate the unilateral class divisions of the old régimes. This essay aims to analyze the role of leadership and the role of the masses in producing social changes in China and addressing regional concerns, and compare the French, Russian and Chinese revolution-of 1949-to illustrate how social transformations are sustained through the coordination of the leadership and mass mobilization. Finally, this essay will also examine how social transformations in China today have exclusively become an affair of party elites, casting aside the role of the masses in social revolutions. [...]

How long is The Origins of Chinese Social Revolutions?

The Origins of Chinese Social Revolutions by De Zhong Gao is 29 pages long, and a total of 7,511 words.

This makes it 10% the length of the average book. It also has 9% more words than the average book.

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The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes and 41 minutes to read The Origins of Chinese Social Revolutions aloud.

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