Communist state

putting restrictions on what users can post online limits the potential of what a person can achieve. China is a country that has dealt with government restrictions for a long time. The ability to be individualistic online is limited when in a communist country like China. In my first article, Internet Café Fire Blamed on Govt. Crackdown, it talked about the dangers involved in running and participating in illegal internet café. An Internet Café called “Lanjisu” was open…

principal is based off of his travels to Europe and America where the uneven distribution of wealth caused “the instability of their economic structure and the deep concern of their leaders in grouping for a solution.” The solution to this problem was state ownership thus livelihood equaled socialism to the 1920s revolution. This document summarizes the three driving forces behind the 1920s Nationalist Revolution: Nationalism, a desire for democracy,…

Public transcripts are characterized by the state sanctioning of certain idealized forms of action that citizens should take, and are demonstrated in social norms of politeness, parades, and holidays. Hidden transcripts are characterized by the private critiques of the official transcripts and are put into action through rumors, gossip, ritualistic aggression and the creation of autonomous space form the oppressed population. Coded transcripts are the attempts of people to ascertain how…

system in which the government has total control over social, economic and political life, specifically that of the Soviet Union under Stalin. Koestler describes two specific worldviews, that of the older generation and that of the new generation of communist party members. Using the novel Darkness at Noon, the worldview of the older generation in comparison to the new generation through characters such as Ivanov and Gletkin, Wassilijl and his daughter, and…

women’s role, instead a new form of patriarchy was established through the family aparatus. If there was anything the USSR government was proud of was their supposed equality within their society. After all, Marxist ideology dictated that for a communist state to exists there shall be a classless society, where no one is better than anyone else. Authors Marjorie Wall Bingham and Susan Hill Gross, argue in their book Women in the USSR that there was never such thing as equality for women in the…

The Republic of Cuba is an island country in the Caribbean that is home to over eleven million citizens. It is one of only enduring socialist states with a Communist government left in the world. The leadership regimes that dictate the island are a reflection of continuing efforts to strengthen its weak democratic system. Daily life is dependent on what the government allows, and what the government does not allow for its people. Throughout history, the dictating Cuban government shaped the…

Although China has gone along way to make revisions to the One-Child Policy, there needs to be an end to sex-selective abortions in rural areas through propaganda that promotes the value of females. Currently, China’s government is ruled by the Communist Party, which mainly consists of obedient elites. The group decided to pass a detrimental policy after Mao’s Great Leap Forward,…

What does one think when they hear the two nations “China” and “Japan?” Most will conclude that they are both Asian countries and believe they are alike. However, this assumption is incorrect. Chinese and Japanese’s generations were built on two separate cultural backgrounds. Between the two territories, they are both designed with two different styles of government. Not only the culture and government are diverse, but there is a contrast between China and Japan’s daily expectations such as…

dramatic uproar of violence than the harsh characteristics of communism. Additionally, democracy provides citizens with natural human rights, which are not offered in communism. In a democracy, citizens are all truly equal under the law. Whereas, communist leaders are adamant about their principles. Though communism has advantages, its lack of safety, freedom, and treatment of individuals, prove why democracy is a more competent…

remembrance of 1949 to the modern period through the lens of intersectional identities in rural China. This is done primarily the implication of rural existence, poverty, womanhood, parenthood, and the shifting societal values under the rule of the Party-state. The transition from the end of the pastoral and "feudal" way of life is markedly altered by identity with the ushering in of the 1950s and Party politics. The gendered aspects of society contributed to only one facet of women’s…