According to topschoolsintheusa, Russia is located between 19°38′ east longitude (Baltic Spit near Kaliningrad) and 169°40′ west longitude (Cape Dezhnev in Chukotka). The extreme northern point of Russia on the continent is Cape Chelyuskin (77°43′ north latitude) on the Taimyr Peninsula, the extreme southern point (41°11′ north latitude) is in the south of Dagestan. It…
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Visa to Taiwan
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The Republic of China
Guomindang and the Communist Party Sun Zhongshan in 1912 organized the Nationalist Party (Guomindang), but Yuan Shikai, declared illegal, brought the capital back to Beijing and began to govern autocratically. At his death (1916) the conflict between the revolutionaries and the government of Beijing worsened, which remained at the mercy of the generals who aimed…
The People’s Republic of China
Delegates from the CCP, 11 other smaller parties and the people’s army approved a provisional constitution. In 1950 an agrarian reform law was promulgated, with the aim of redistributing land to small and medium-sized farmers; in foreign policy, a thirty-year alliance agreement between China and the Soviet Union was signed in Moscow; meanwhile, China reaffirmed…
The Civil War China Between Nationalists and Communists
The civil war between Nationalists and Communists came to an end on the Chinese continent during the year 1949. Faced with the superior organization and discipline of the Communist troops, the nationalist ones, undermined in morale by the skilful adversary propaganda, badly guided by incapable leaders, little supported by the home front, upset by the…
The Chinese Dynasties
Prehistory Fossil records document that China was inhabited from the lower Paleolithic. In particular, the man of Yuanmou has been dated over 1 million years ago, the man of Lantian to 600,000, the Sinanthropus pekinensis of Zhoukoudian (attributable to Homo erectus) to the middle Pleistocene. After these Paleolithic cultures it was possible to date various…
Republic of China in Taiwan
After the government moved to Formosa (T’aiwan), Chiang Kai-shek resumed power on 1 March 1950. The capital was established in T’aipei. In the early 1950s, the nationalists still occupied, in addition to Formosa, also the island of Hainan, the archipelago of the Chusan islands, the archipelago of the Tachen, some islands along the coast of…
Public Debt in China
In the meantime, the economy must still be directed from above and perhaps also supported by massive injections of public money destined for infrastructures (roads, telecommunications). Over the past four years, these have probably been the country’s largest voice of economic growth, but have imposed an ever-increasing burden on public debt . According to an analysis by…
People’s Republic of China Religious Politics
Towards traditional Chinese religions, the attitude of the Beijing government was different for Buddhism and Taoism. While Taoism, the Chinese national religion that has never gone outside the borders of China, has been persecuted, with relative closure of temples and convents, imprisonment and “re-education” of monks, suppression of Taoist secret societies, etc., the former, as…
People’s Republic of China Foreign Policy
Newly constituted, the government of the People’s Republic of China expressed a desire to establish diplomatic relations “on the basis of equality, mutual benefit and mutual respect for national sovereignty” with foreign governments on the condition that they break off relations with the nationalist government and adopted a friendly attitude towards People’s China. According to…
People’s Republic of China – Land Reform and Industrialization
The first initiative of the new regime in the field of customs reform was the law on marriage, promulgated on April 13, 1950. It revolutionized ancestral customs, such as marriages decided by parents, polygamy, concubinage; proclaimed the equality of the sexes; legalized divorce by mutual consent. In short, he sanctioned the emancipation of women. Prostitution…
Mao’s China
Despite the Korean War, the country’s economic reconstruction progressed; the inflationary process stopped and production exceeded that of the pre-war period. The first five-year plan was launched (1953-57) and, in 1954, the first National People’s Assembly was convened, elected by indirect universal suffrage. In September the Assembly approved a definitive Constitution, which established the progressive…
Military Operations in China During the Second World War
Japan’s military operations in China during World War II are seamlessly linked to the Sino-Japanese conflict that broke out in July 1937 (for which see Sino – Japanese, war, in App. I, p. 433 and in this App.). According to Computerminus, Japan’s entry into the war against Western powers had the immediate consequence of enlarging…
China, Taiwan and United States
Taiwan: sovereign state or Chinese province? According to Equzhou, Taiwan Island, also called Formosa, has offered refuge to the nationalist government of Guomindang, led by Chiang Kai-shek, which was defeated in 1949 during the Chinese civil war. The island therefore took the name of the Republic of China (Roc). At the time, the Communist government…
China Under Jiang Zemin Part II
The year 1999, the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the PRC, had also seen the realization, in December, of another dream long cherished by the Chinese leadership: the reunification at China of Macao, a Portuguese colony for centuries, which followed that of Hong Kong of two years before. In May of the same year,…
China Under Jiang Zemin Part I
HUMAN AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY Central-eastern Asian state. The numerous disputes affecting the extended border perimeter of the China are favorably affected by the choice of the rulers of Beijing to credit their country as a ‘quiet great power’ on the international political front. Thus, even if the budget of the Ministry of Defense expands rapidly…
China Under Hu Jintao
If 2001 is to be considered as the year of the entry of the PRC into the WTO, the two-year period 2002-03 must be remembered above all for the political turnover in the center and in the provinces, with the rise of the ‘fourth generation’ of leadership. The sanction of the political and generational turnover…
China Transportation Between 1949 and 1958
Routes of communication. – According to Animalerts, the China was up to now very poorly equipped with railways; this hindered exchanges and stimulated autarchic tendencies, favored political regionalism and made it difficult to counter the famines, which from time to time affect the internal regions of the country. Only Manchuria had a fairly efficient network…
China Territory
The territory. – In the last twenty years, the Chinese territory has increased in several respects: with the reunification of Macao and Hong Kong, with the colonization of areas that were previously uninhabited, and with the construction of large numbers of anthropogenic interventions. Since the most remote antiquity, Chinese civilization has always distinguished itself for…
China Statistical Data and Censuses
In 1928 the Chinese Ministry of the Interior promulgated a series of regulations intended to take over the population census: due, however, to the Japanese occupation of the northern provinces, the area in which these preliminary census operations were carried out was necessarily limited to a few provinces only. The system followed was that of…
China Society and Human Rights
Population and society With around 1.3 billion people, nearly a fifth of the world’s population, China is the most populous state on the planet. To control the phenomenon, the Communist Party has launched a birth planning policy, according to which each couple can have only one child, except for twins, ethnic minorities, rural families and…
China Religion
Although China has known many other religions, such as Manichaeism, Islam, Christianity, its religious history appears to be dominated by the various fortunes and reciprocal relations of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. In this regard, it should be noted that Confucianism is not a religion but a doctrinal arrangement developed by Confucius of the classical religion…
China Public Finance and Education During World War II
Finance. – According to Recipesinthebox, the Chinese financial situation has been characterized in recent years by many negative aspects: highly passive trade balance, growing deficit in the state budget, disorder in the entire economic life of the country. The deficit of the state budget, covered more and more extensively with the issuance of tickets, depended…
Libya Geography and Cinematography
The name of Libya, derived from classical geography (see below), came from the geographer F. Minutilli recalled with his Bibliography of Libya (Turin 1903) and applied to the region then constituting the Turkish Paschalate of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. Later it was also officially adopted by the Italian government after, by decree of 5 November 1911,…
Indonesia Economy and Energy
Economy After the election of the new president Widodo, the economy has become one of the main themes of the Indonesian political debate, especially on the issue of state subsidies for energy. The gradual reduction in subsidies from 2013 onwards has led to a rise in gasoline prices and the proposal to cut them further…
Turkey Encyclopedia for Children
Turkey Where Asia connects to Europe A country between two continents, Turkey preserves the rich cultural heritage of the long imperial past with the future aim of growing and establishing itself as a great country. Modernization, which marked much of the twentieth century, has made Turkey take enormous steps in economic and social development, bringing…
India During World War II
On September 3, 1939, Viceroy Lord VA Linlithgow announced that India had entered the war on the side of Great Britain. India’s contribution to the English cause was not indifferent. The army was increased to two million men and Indian troops fought in Africa, against Japan and in the Italian campaign. The losses amounted to…
Cyprus Archaeology and Arts
The prehistoric Cypriot civilization (4000-1050 ca.) was divided into three periods: Neolithic-Chalcolithic (mid 8th-3rd millennium), Bronze (2800-1200), Iron (1200-1050); in the historical era, a period called geometric (1050 ca.-650 BC) is followed by the archaic (650-450), the classical (450-330), the Hellenistic (330-50), the Roman (50 BC – 395 AD). Houses with a circular plan and…
Myanmar Landmarks
Fishing village ye According to topschoolsintheusa, Ye is a city in the south of the Mon State in Myanmar. The remote and rarely visited city between Mawlamyine and Dawei has about 40,000 inhabitants and is located on the picturesque bend of the Ye River. The small town’s economy, which has its own seaport, is largely…
Diaspora Museum and Nothern Ramparts Walk, Israel
Diaspora Museum Several thousand years of history – presented in a modern way The city of Tel Aviv is one of the most important cultural metropolises in the State of Israel. The seat of government, the “Tel Aviv University” and numerous museums are located here. So if you go on a trip to Israel (pilgrimage,…