Template talk:History of the People's Republic of China
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Hi People of the world
-hi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.189.64.232 (talk) 17:41, August 26, 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Polite revert requested
This template looks horrible with all that unnecessary whitespace to the far right. Would anyone mind if I reverted back to version 311443097 by Colipon? -- WikHead (talk) 09:43, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
- It looks like it has less whitespace on the right of the text to me. Gary King (talk) 18:06, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
- Take a look at Tiananmen Square protests of 1989#Naming of incident. The text area is being limited to about 25% of the view width, with a wide white stripe (dead wasted whitespace) running vertically down the far right of the screen (see screen-cap image). It looks bad. Would it be possible to stack these templates instead? -- WikHead (talk) 19:08, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
[edit] Recentism?
The last section of the template seems to be fairly out of place: 1) The significance of the Beijing Olympics and the Sichuan earthquake can be debated; however, the Shanghai expo certainly doesn't merit being placed alongside a series of periods and turning points in the PRC's history. 2) There is no clear reason for 2002 to be treated as a significant turning point. 1976 and 1989 were both extremely significant years which saw very important decisions made on the future course of China's political development: 2002, not so much. (Yes, I am aware that the handover to the next political generation took place then, but it was nothing as significant as the two previous dates, and I don't see any convincing reason for a new section to be made for this year's handover either -- what would it be called, "China Tomorrow"?)
Hence I recommend merging the "China Today" section into the Rising Power section (I think we can all agree that China did not stop being a rising power in 2002). Personally, moreover, I think that in terms of actual historical significance only the Beijing Olympics deserves being kept there, out of the three events currently listed in that section. --Tyrannus Mundi (talk) 18:19, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
