Past and nowadays of China

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Past and nowadays of china                                         Li Qianyan                                                           1M041036-0                                                 2005.1.20 China has changed a lot since Chairman Mao decided to change China from feudalization to socialism in 1940’s. The transformation includes the cognition of people and the economics of the country. The cognitions of people have had a grate change in modern time owing to the 9 years required education system which was a law published about 20 years ago that young should take at least 9 years’ education. This law ensures people’s least knowledge of the nature world and specific technology. As a result, people in modern China are much more intellectual than their ancestors and more and more people take education seriously because they see it as a way of changing their lives. In China in old days, especially before Qing dynasty, very few people could go to school. Actually, having education was only the privilege of the rich. On the other hand, although those minority could go to school, what they learned were only about the poet, writing, drawing, which had little relation to science and technology. As a result, compared to western countries, China was far behind in science and special technology in the early
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20th century. In contrary, myth was commonly accepted by people in old days. For example, the poor believed in god as a form of complaining their hard lives, oppressed by the rich and hoping for the good life. They didn’t struggle for better life because they though that was their fate, which had been written in the fate book when they were born. There is a saying in China that the official’s son is born as an official and the thief’s son is born as a thief. This illustrates that ordinary people just do the same work as their parents, ...

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