Posts Tagged China
History “Today”: Birth of Deng Xiao Ping, China’s Economic Architect
Posted by Rich in Educational on August 22nd, 2009
August 22, 1904. Exactly today, Deng Xiao Ping was born in a farming family in Guang’an, Sichuan in China.
Educated in France, Deng learned the fundamental ideals of Marxism while studying and eventually working in France in the 1920. He joined the Communist Party of China in 1923.
Though he rose to the ranks to become of [...]
China’s Basketball Loss Should Rouse Us From Slumber
Any avid Asian basketball follower would be surprised to see how China’s national basketball team got cut down to bits and pieces following its humiliating 52-70 defeat over rising Iran recently in the 2009 FIBA-Asia Men’s basketball championships right before a shocked Chinese crowd in Tianjin, China.
I missed watching the gold medal game, but from [...]