Cultural Revolution

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 intellectual was automatically suspected of being counter-revolutionary (History.com Staff). As a victim of the Cultural Revolution,…

The Chinese Cultural Revolution in the mid 19th century brought a forced wave of reverting to traditional values, resulting in “approximately 12 million” (Allen “Dai”) people to be forced into villages. Because of the repetition aspect of history, many writers have written about concepts and ideas that people who are currently suffering will relate to. When writing about issues, authors tend to allude to other literature works. Relying on other authors to help explain characters’ desires or…

After Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, China started its new reform era. The new era contrasts sharply from its former era. After the failure of the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, Deng Xiaoping started a series of reforms that lead to today’s China. There are many aspects that are different from Mao’s regime, but also many aspects they remain constant throughout the years. During the early years of the People’s Republic of China, the communist-lead party was still no part of the…

by the collective efforts of the Chinese peasants, and Chairman Mao saw great potential in the masses. This however, had disastrous consequences and ultimately led to the Great Chinese Famine (1959-61) with over 15 million excess deaths. The Cultural Revolution (1966-76) was aimed at removing any 'anti-revolutionary' elements of Chinese society. The means used to achieve this end were indiscriminate violence and ill treatment meted out by a radical group called the Red Guards who claimed to be…

1960’s in which there was a chaotic “Cultural Revolution”. Ping didn 't grew up reading or even seen fairly tales. She didn 't know about them until she found her neighbor outside her house reading The Little Mermaid. A book she had always wanted to read completely, yet if the government found her reading this book her and her family would have to been punished. In the essay, Wang Ping make emphasis on how difficult was to grow up during the Cultural Revolution movement, where reading something…

Inopportune: Stage One is a famous artwork created in 2004 by the contemporary artist, who is known for using gunpowder and explosives in his artwork, named Cai Guo-Qiang. It can be viewed at the Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, Massachusetts. It consists of nine white Ford Tauruses hanging vertically in a large rotunda. Each of the nine white Ford Tauruses is being pierced with numerous neon flashing light tubes. The nine white American cars are placed so that it seems that cars are…

Overflowing with dramatization, grievousness and loathsomeness, this phenomenal family story of life and death mirrors China 's century of turbulence through the eyes of Jung Chang 's three generations of family: her grandmother, mother and inevitably a life account of herself. In this book, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, we get to see the painful effects of Mao’s personality cult, and his painful policies. At age of two, Yu-fang, Jung Chang 's grandmother had her feet bounded. She was…

The author of the memoir, Red Scarf Girl,Ji-li Jiang, writes, “Once my life had been defined by my goals...Now my life was defined by my responsibilities” (Jiang 263 ). Ji-li’s identity was influenced by the Cultural Revolution, which is a period of time where Chairman Mao wanted to boost agriculture and industry by teaching children new ways and getting rid of ancient ways, in many ways such as school teachings, her family history, and the pressure of changes. Ji-Li changed throughout the…

Steven Li Prof. Yang CHIN 355 November 8 2016 A Critique of China: The Connection of Writing Style in Yu Hua and Lu Xun writing Lu Xun’s heavily anti-feudalism and anti-Confucian and Yu Hua’s “China in Ten Words” represent that Chinese citizens have no rights to speak for themselves due to the low level of living environment and corrupted government’s policies also called dictatorship. In both of their works, they seem have nothing similar because they are talking about two completely different…

the greatest famines the world had ever seen. Nearly thirty million Chinese died” (8). After the Great Leap Forward failed, Mao introduced the Cultural Revolution in 1966. The Cultural Revolution led to the loss of Chinese culture and all connections to the West. Li says of his family’s New Year’s customs that “Before Chairman Mao and the Cultural Revolution we would have displayed a family tree and a picture of the god of fortune on the northern wall above the table. But this tradition was now…