Aimee Farr wrote: <<snip China's problems starting 1850>> > In 1900, the Boxer > Rebellion slaughtered missionaries. With the 1919 Peking University riots, > China had rejected the West. Then came Kai-shek v. Mao and a war with Japan. > A century of bloodshed caused by outside influence.
Plus the policy of killing off baby girls. There weren't enough women for all the young men in the late 1800's. This added to the general frustration and aggression and let demagogues kick off rebellions and revolutions. Relevant today because of PRC's one-child policy. -- Steve Furlong Computer Condottiere Have GNU, Will Travel The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
