Cultural Revolution

To Live The movie “To Live” explains the life of an average Chinese family through the feudalist Warlord Era, the labor-intensive Great Leap Forward, and the communist Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. “To Live” shows how China moved from a feudal system to a communist system during the twentieth century. This family consists of Fugui (the husband), Jiazhen (the wife), Fengxia (the daughter), and Youquing (the son). At the time, China was struggling to unite. This…

The Tiananmen Square protests was caused by many factors that were present after Mao Zedong’s death. The failed Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution left China in a devastated state with economic and social problems in part to the failure of Communism. The Communist Party still stayed strong throughout these crises although they resulted in more deaths than the Soviet Union and the Nazi regime’s atrocities. The party elected Deng Xiaoping, who was left to lift the country back up.…

J. K. Rowling, in Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban, states that “...the world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters. We've all got both light and dark inside us.” Jack Merridew, an innocent twelve year old at the start of the novel, Lord of the Flies, and Ralph, also an innocent school boy in the beginning , portray the very thing Rowling talks about. All people have both light and dark in them. By the conclusion of Lord of the Flies, both innocent schoolboys have turned into…

16. Hundreds High Hats Paraded The Cultural Revolution was blazing everywhere in the vast land of China, also burned the ancient city 's streets and back lanes. The millennium city was experiencing a hitherto unknown "revolutionary baptism". To carry the revolution through to the end, our middle school red guards joined “the Revolutionary Red Guards mass nationwide travel". Many students went to Beijing, Wuhan and chairman Mao 's home town - Shao Shan（韶山)…… different cities and placeses.…

industrial population. China did not have a large industrial population (Stanton 2016). Instead, Mao made the foundation of his revolution the peasants (Marlay and Neher 1999). Mao instigated a reworking of Chinese society during his rule, as Mao strictly believed that change must be the constant and that revolutions must be continuous (Marlay and Neher). The Cultural Revolution weeded out opposition to Mao’s ideas and enforced the shedding of the “four olds”, old thoughts, old culture, old…

aimed at relinquishing bribery, tax evasion, theft of state property, cheating the government and stealing economic information. Many sought to detect, seize and punish party members who had demonstrated these capitalist traits. In 1965 the Cultural Revolution was designed by Mao specifically to reconsolidate power, undermining the positions of Liu and Deng, as well as to reimpose his beliefs on the nation by eradicating the ‘Four Olds’ – old culture, habits, ideas and customs. Denunciation of…

mouthful”? The novel, Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien, portrays the idea of injustice and selfishness. The novel describes the origins of injustice in a society in which the main characters suffer the consequences of not only the Cultural Revolution but also the Tiananmen Square protest. It is a threat to survival that ultimately brings out the worst in people; humans are selfish and narcissistic, harming others consciously and unconsciously, to ensure their own continued…

To this day, Mao Zedong remains the most potent figure in the public imagination of the People’s Republic of China. Mao was a founding member of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the ideological progenitor of Chinese socialism, a commander in the war of resistance against Japan, the revolutionary leader of the People’s Republic of China, and its longest serving leader. Even in the years after his death, from 1976 to 1991, Mao was used to frame the ensuing power struggle for leadership of China…

Farewell, My Concubine is a Chinese film that presents the lives of two men who found great fame in Peking opera in 20th century China. While the film shows their skill within the art and the successful lives they gained with it, it also shows the hardships that they had to face as children, then later as adults when the government and society of China changes before them as they age. This film is not only a great introduction to the vibrant and beautiful art of Peking opera, but also provides a…

countryside. Luo and the narrator are sent to a village to be re educated. They were forced to do labor everyday. They also meet the little Chinese seamstress and became friends with her. The story talks about everyday life in China during the Chinese Revolution and how the characters struggled everyday to survive and educate themselves. In the beginning of the book, Luo and the narrator are sent to the Phoenix village to be re educated. The narrator brought a violin and the headmaster and…