In China, some of the worlds harshest, most cruel laws are in place. From population control to torturing its citizens, over the last four decades China has controlled every aspect of its citizens’ lives. Chinas brutal One-Child Policy has been in play since 1978, the policy restricts couples from having more than one child. In the book Among the Enemy, 2 main characters, Percius and Matthias experience first-hand the many hardships those in China face today. In 1949, a Chinese emperor by the name of Mao Zedong banned all contraceptives from being shipped to China. (Jian, 2013) Contraceptives are used as an agent to prevent pregnancy. This choice by the emperor would ultimately increase China’s population by over a staggering four hundred
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The famine was the worst the country had ever seen, even up to present day over four decades later. There was an estimated total of fourteen to thirty-two million people killed. In present time, China refers to the famine of 59’ as “The Three Terrible Years” referring to the three years the famine lasted and the harshness of the famine. (Ching, 2013) During the famine, over the course of only three years over twenty-four million fewer births had taken place in China. For Mao Zedong, this was a major let down, as he wanted the population to continue expanding for even more man-power. This is similar to the book Among the Enemy in which the characters were starving yet there was no food because of a famine that struck the …show more content…
The working conditions today are similar to the Textile Mills in the beginning of the nineteenth century. The Chinese citizens work in sweatshops up to one hundred hours per week and only earn a daily salary of ten cents. If citizens refuse to go to work, many things can happen to them such as arrest, public shaming, intimidation and fired. In China, being fired is one of the cruellest punishments, as a citizen without a job is viewed as a worthless citizen, therefor is put under constant stress of finding a new job. This is where many Chinese citizens run into problems, there’s not many jobs. Which also means the companies can pay them very low salaries and keep all of the profit they make. All of these punishments may happen over only missing one day of work, and with the pollution in China causing sickness, going to work is not easy. In China, it is also illegal to listen into other countries radio stations and is especially illegal for the citizens to watch other countries news. The same rule was applied in Nazi Germany, by not letting the citizens think there was any other kind of life than what they were living, they gained complete control over the citizens. The Chinese government is based on communism, which is a society where all property is owned by the public and every individual works and is paid depending on their strongholds and needs. The United States Government has debated on
The famine was the worst the country had ever seen, even up to present day over four decades later. There was an estimated total of fourteen to thirty-two million people killed. In present time, China refers to the famine of 59’ as “The Three Terrible Years” referring to the three years the famine lasted and the harshness of the famine. (Ching, 2013) During the famine, over the course of only three years over twenty-four million fewer births had taken place in China. For Mao Zedong, this was a major let down, as he wanted the population to continue expanding for even more man-power. This is similar to the book Among the Enemy in which the characters were starving yet there was no food because of a famine that struck the …show more content…
The working conditions today are similar to the Textile Mills in the beginning of the nineteenth century. The Chinese citizens work in sweatshops up to one hundred hours per week and only earn a daily salary of ten cents. If citizens refuse to go to work, many things can happen to them such as arrest, public shaming, intimidation and fired. In China, being fired is one of the cruellest punishments, as a citizen without a job is viewed as a worthless citizen, therefor is put under constant stress of finding a new job. This is where many Chinese citizens run into problems, there’s not many jobs. Which also means the companies can pay them very low salaries and keep all of the profit they make. All of these punishments may happen over only missing one day of work, and with the pollution in China causing sickness, going to work is not easy. In China, it is also illegal to listen into other countries radio stations and is especially illegal for the citizens to watch other countries news. The same rule was applied in Nazi Germany, by not letting the citizens think there was any other kind of life than what they were living, they gained complete control over the citizens. The Chinese government is based on communism, which is a society where all property is owned by the public and every individual works and is paid depending on their strongholds and needs. The United States Government has debated on