Cultural Revolution

In 1840 the Qing dynasty was in control of the Chinese government. China was threatened by the British and Western Barbarians. This resulted in what is known as the Opium War. The British government was exporting Opium to China. Chinese citizens were getting addicted to opium and eventually the Chinese government stopped opium import from Great Britain. This hurt the British economy and resulted in a war between the two countries. At the end of the Opium War China was forced to give up land and…

A rather depressing movie, “The Blue Kite” recalls the story of a small, poor family in China, in the 50’s and 60’s, during the hundred flowers movement, and the ‘cultural revolution’. We follow the family through various phases of their lives, starting from the 50’s, at the start of the communist regime. One could say the initially positive outlook in the Chinese community is visible in all the characters living in the compound. However, we see this positivity turn to discontent and a feeling…

student protestors he had become a hero of the movement (Kulver 76). Students , workers , intellectuals ,police men and even soldiers arrived with the coming of Gorbachev. Students had taken action, they were desperately needing a reform. The Cultural Revolution was also a time to remember for China. China had recently felt the of part of the democracy movement. In addition to protest, student began to go on hunger strikes Martial law was at all closet trying to be avoided (Kuver 80)…

one of China’s significant advancement by greatly improving China’s economy and improving individual’s lives. His reform was irreplaceable because of Deng’s previous ruler, Mao Zedong nullified China’s successful by starting the cultural revolution. The cultural revolution was made to overturn old customs and to persecute educated people. Despite all the consequence Deng stepped up as a leader during 1978 to rebuild China. He was a successful leader because of his previous positions such as a…

The era of communism had begun. Mao Zedong proclaimed the People’s Republic of China and began his firm rule over his people. Through the People’s Republic social, land, and cultural reforms took place. In 1966, Mao instituted perhaps his most devastating and destructive reforms to Chinese society; the Cultural Revolutions. The goal of this reformation was to purge China from its impure elements and revive a revolutionary communistic spirit and effectively caused a massive removal of old…

Each word: people, leader, reading, writing, Lu Xun, revolution, disparity, grassroots, copycat, bamboozle have all played a part in Yu Hua’s life in one way or another. The main concept of Yu Hua in the book is to show that China has not moved on from the Maiost ideology even though many have embraced Deng…

Fan Shen began as a good little revolutionary. Revolution was his birthright, a heritage passed down to him by his family. A legacy denoted in his name, “’Fan,’ my given name, means ‘ordinary—one of millions of working people,’” because only working people could be true revolutionaries.” The indoctrination of the Chinese Communist Party caused generations of Chinese to partake in unnecessary violence and hardship, and Fan Shen was no exception. However, he resisted the Communist Party. Fan Shen…

During the early 1900s, two separate nations were experiencing a revolution. The Russian Revolution began in 1917 as a result of the people’s dissatisfaction with the czar. Czar Nicholas II was overthrown by his subjects when he decided to enter World War I, despite Russia being unprepared to fight its powerful and industrialized enemies. Communist leaders within Russia soon started to gain more control. A similar event occurred in China in 1911, when revolutionaries overthrew the Qing Dynasty.…

Mao planned to move cement the revolution though a ‘drastic remoulding of the people’s ideology’48. Mao cemented the revolution in the country side by instituting ‘some variety of land reform’ which began with mass land reform and ended in the creation of the people’s communes. This was in order to ‘maintain the wide basis of peasant…

Reading Response #2 Based on the selection of Women in the Chinese Enlightenment and The True Story of Ah Q After the Revolution of 1911, series of events, including the warlord skirmishes, Yuan Shikai’s and Japan’s Twenty-one Demands, China landed itself into deep trouble and was able to obtain little social development. Beginning in the year 1915, some intellectuals started to claim that only under the circumstance of which all the Chinese people are enlightened can China achieve the…