Cultural Revolution

Mao tse-tung brought the communist revolution to China and gained political though the barrel of a gun. The Chinese system he overthrew nearly 50 years ago was backwards and corrupt. Few would argue the fact that he dragged China into the 20th century. But at a cost in human lives that is staggering. Suspected enemies of the party were murdered by the millions, farming collectives and the Great Leap Forwards of industrialization that failed miserably and left millions more died from starvation.…

who have put on the robe of revolution, very few of them have had a direct and lasting impact on the world. One of these men is Mao Zedong. In the 1960’s, Mao Zedong, revered as a god to his people, was able to completely change how China’s political and economic systems work. Today, China is one of the world’s most powerful nations. They dominate the world’s economy because of the political and economic foundations that Mao Zedong laid down during the Communist revolutions that he led as leader…

From 1966 to 1976, China was in the grip of the Cultural Revolution, a movement order by Chairman Mao Zedong to eliminate traditional forms of Chinese culture and fight off capitalism in order to promote communism. Crimes were harshly punished, teachers were forced to walk the streets in dunce hats while all the students were forced to go to re-education camps. The narrator and his best friend Luo were both sent to the base of Phoenix of the Sky mountain for their re-education in which their…

Textbook by Roger B. Beck and Linda Black, describes how China became more modern after the death of Mao and Zhao had past away. This is also about the time that the communist party had taken over China and started to arrest people from the Cultural Revolution. Roger B Beck, and Linda Black are both writers of the “Modern World History Patterns of Interaction” Textbook and are experts on the knowledge of many countries and their past time including China. The audience that the writers were…

feeling. Red Scarf Girl by Ji-Li Jiang, is a gripping tale that paints herself as the girl who’s future is shown brightly only to be abruptly forced away from her. Ji-li, a young girl whose perfect world is being tossed around wildly by the Culture Revolutions. She writes in her memoir the heartbreaks, changes and horrors that she witnessed and the emotional journey she embarked. Towards the end she is faced with a traumatic choice will she change her life and let go what has supported her from…

Western commentary appearing in circulation between 1953 and 1965 was cautiously declinist, predicting a loss of living standards gained during the initial land reform years. This opinion was largely based upon the notion that Mao’s FFYP was to be firmly rooted in the Soviet model of FFYP, the latter having caused a substantial decline in peasant living standards and conditions. In these terms, the ambitious FFYP, geared towards the rapid industrialisation of heavy and light industry, was…

With thousands left wounded, a seemingly countless number of citizens reported dead, and a country left with a damaged reputation. All of these were the results of a truly unforgettable and shocking event which happened on the 4th of June 1989, the Tiananmen Square massacre. Tiananmen Square, situated in China's capital, Beijing, is the largest public space in the world. Being one of the largest tourist attractions in the world, it is surrounded by monumental public buildings that line its…

When you think of China what come to mind . When I think of china I think about their political change through the years , Rapidly growing economy , and lastly there large trade system. Throughout the years China has faced a tremendous amount of challenges within their government party. From leader like Mao Zedong, who was the leader of the communist party who ran the china in an autocratic way . Through his time if leadership within the party china faced plenty amount of problems within the…

China has had a history like no other. From dynasties ruled by emperors, to the communist revolution, to an eventual crossroads between the 20th century and western influence. China grew from an agrarian society to global superpower like the US, but the differences between the US and China are stark. The US is a democracy with a multi-party system competing for offices in government. However in China, the party is above the government; public offices are filled by appointed party members and the…

Under Maoist socialism the traditional Chinese family was entirely reconsidered. The Communist Party, eager to rid China of its old feudal culture, promoted new policies that destroyed the patriarchal kinship model the people of China had been following whereby the male individual was of most value within the family and expected to continue the family lineage. The idea of filial piety was replaced by filial nationalism and the people of China were ordered to prioritize the state over one's…