reality it’s an indictment of the random – possibility. Context – a word where by wars, politics. We are now in a new world where the context is so elusive that intenet – to critiquing on politics in art. In May, 1966, Chinas communist leader, Mao Zedong passe There’s a famous quote from the book Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon – it goes “You never did the Kenotia kid. During a sequence the protagonist is forced to take 10ml of sodium amatol, better known as truth serum, to which he…
In this paper I argue that China 's change of foreign policy strategy after 1949 can be explained in a realist, liberalism, and constructivist application. Prior to 1949 the Chinese government administered through strong communist ideology. Time went on but during the transition the China we once knew was no more. On the surface it was the same but on a deeper level China was ready to join the other world powers. Specifically I will explain why China changed to a more open-minded mentality. Why…
revolution so threatening both to America’s status quo and the global structure is formulated into 3 different logics that will be use to define the ‘china threat’ thesis. First of would be the fact that China still sticks to its old roots of the Chairman Mao days of communism has created a bad image of China to the western world. Next would be the geopolitical and geo-economics factors. To further clarify this, a number of realists and even China has dismissed this ideological straitjacket. As…
other countries; therefore, this isolation with the outside world indirectly led to fail of the Qing Dynasty. China is transition from a traditional society to a modern one and transformation from the Kuomingdang to the Communism; where under Chairman Mao Zedong’s ruling, people have to get rid of the old and welcome the new. During the time of the Chinese Civil War, Kuomingdang or the Nationalist and Chinese Communist Party battle one another although they were all Chinese. “The Chinese Civil…
Even though the state of China resembles more like a post-socialist state, leaders of the state were heavily inclined towards a radical perspective since Mao Zedong was a founder member of the Chinese Communist Party. One of his main policies was the Great Leap Forward, which aimed to transform their agricultural industry into an advanced socialist economy through collectivization of different industries. Unfortunately, it did not work as expected since its implementation just shrank the…
confrontational attitude towards the United States and the West during Stalin’s era, Khrushchev tried to promote the idea of peaceful co-existence between Russia and the US after realizing that a confrontation was not realistic for Russia. On the other hand, Mao refuted Russia’s decision arguing that the West should continue to be combated with. To the Communist China, pursuing capitalism was as a form of betrayal to the…
has in making it. Weiwei’s uses art to create a division and a revolution in people’s minds. For example, Weiwei took a series of shots where he smashes and old and valuable urn from the Han dynasty and he explains his reasons, Weiwei says that Mao Zedong, a former chinese chairman, believes in destroying the old world to create a new world. Weiwei was judged by artists all over the world who said he was crazy for doing destroying something so valuable, but in actuality Weiwei was trying to an…
Revolution took hold under Mao Zedong. In Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, literature exhibits a few of its attributes, which include the power to completely change lives, the strength to…
repression is a sign of any oppressive government. Following the failure of the Great Leap Forward, Communist leader Mao Zedong started the Cultural Revolution in an attempt to revive the people’s faith and enthusiasm in him and the Communist Revolution. From 1966 to 1976, there was a purge against intellectuals and artists of Chinese society, which were seen as elitist. Furthermore, Mao received criticism due to the famine that resulted from the Great Leap Forward, so any non-revolutionary…
; in case ; Does the citizens of China get the freedom to voice out their opinion? As of right now, Chinas has a Communist and the People's Liberation Army. Having a Communist government China is very strict onto using the media. Some specific sites are prohibited, one of the popular ones being Google. Chinese being a communist country, they do not have the ability like Americans have to fully vote for their leaders. Furthermore, they do not have the freedom to voice their opinion…