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The One-Child Policy: Adoption and its Effects on Birth Mothers and Adopted Daughters
(2017-11-14)The controversial one-child policy was implemented in China in 1979, a year after Deng Xiaoping rose to power. Deng was a strong advocator for population control and saw it as a method of raising the GDP per capita of China ... -
Intellectual Property Rights in the People's Republic of China
In modern times, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is well known for intellectual piracy and cheap knock-offs. From shoddy recordings of movies, to knock-off copies, illicit goods from China flooded markets around the ... -
Development in Hong Kong and Mainland China: Two Systems, One Result
(2017-12)This paper traces the history of Maxim's Caterers Limited as an illustrative case study of growth of private industry in Hong Kong's economic development. As Hong Kong industrialized in the 1950s and 1960s, development ... -
Anthracite and the Irish : extricating the Irish immigrant mining community from the Molly Maguire myth, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1850-1879
(1996)The Molly Maguires were a reputed secret society of Irish immigrant mine workers who allegedly terrorized the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania from the Civil War until twenty men convicted as Molly Maguires were ... -
The Persistent Presence of a Successful Failure; The Maryland State Colonization Society and the Importance of its Existence
(2009-01-01)In 1832, the Maryland State Colonization Society officially seceded from the American Colonization Society. With this declaration of independence, the Maryland State Colonization Society embarked on a thirty year journey ... -
The influence of Lysenkoism on China’s genetics : the importance of the 1956 Qingdao symposium
(1993)In 1956, prompted by Mao Zedong himself, the Qingdao symposium was convened to bring together scientists with training in "Morgan-Mendel" genetics and scientists following the Michurin school. The effects of government ...
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