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Frank Dikotter’s Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962 is a historical narrative that examines the events leading up to and during China’s “Great Famine”. Through the narrative he presents, Dikotter aims to show the ways in which Great Leap Forward policies resulted in the “near collapse of a social and economic system on which Mao had staked his prestige.” Mao’s Great Famine examines the political situation of the Chinese Communist Party that…

11.In the beginning, Mao followed his goals through Red Guards, groups of young people living in cities. The Red Guards were so cruel in their actions and killed suspected well-educated people. 12.Along the line, high-ranking CCP officials like Deng Xioping and Lin Biao lost their clout. 13.In 1969, Lin emerged as Mao’s successor. Nevertheless, Mao was unpleased with Lin’s increased power and sacked Lin with the help of Zhou Enlai, China’s first…

The national flag of China depicts four small stars surrounding a large central star amongst a red background. Adopted in 1949, the “Five-Star Red Flag” represented a new wave of thinking in China that promoted communism. Mao Zedong, the founder of The People’s Republic of China, assumed power of China through support of peasants in the hopes of creating a country that was united. Mao insisted that a Cultural Revolution needed a nationwide class struggle in order to create an equal society.…

How do you think about Mao Zedong 's accomplishments? Will Chinese people have different opinions against your opinion? Mao Zedong was born in December. 26, 1893, Shaoshan, Hunan province, China and died in September. 9, 1976, Beijing. He was principal Chinese Marxist theorist, solider, and statesman who led his nation 's communist revolution He was a leader of the Chinese Communist party from 1935, he was the chief of the state of the People 's Republic of China from 1949 to 1959. He graduated…

The Chinese Cultural Revolution Grew up and educated in China, the Chinese Cultural Revolution was only briefly mentioned in my history class. The way the textbook described the Cultural Revolution, made it seems so insignificant and “normal”. Living abroad, with access to more information, I want to uncover it from the “history textbook”. First, I want to know how exactly the Cultural Revolution happened and evolved. The Cultural Revolution started in 1966 by Chairman Mao Zedong and the…

Mr. China’s Son, is based off of a true story. Written by He Liyi and Claire Anne Chik, it tells the story of one of the authors, He Liyi. As for some basic information about him, he was a Chinese English teacher who lived through the Cultural Revolution whiling belonging to one of China’s minorities, the Bai. He lived in Yunnan Province. What is very unique about his biography, is that it differs from other documentaries. Mr. China’s Son was written in English compared to many other…

During the Qing Dynasty, many rebellions were started. Having numerous rebellions during the Qing Dynasty caused many Chinese to suffer. After the Qing Dynasty ended, China went under Communist rule was supposed to improve the Chinese lifestyle. It was soon realized that Communist rule wasn’t much better than the Qing Dynasty due to the amount of intense labor everyone had to experience. Which means that both the Qing Dynasty and Communist rule failed at creating a peaceful lifestyle for the…

The Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989, more popularly known as the Tiananmen Square Incident or Tiananmen Square Massacre, were a series of student-led demonstrations in Beijing during 1989. The student-led protests were forcibly suppressed by tanks and armed troops 2 weeks after the government declared martial law and mobilized as many as 300,000 troops into Beijing. The death toll is still widely debated.The protests happened during rapid economic and social developments in China. The students…

As the main leader of China during a period of violence, poverty, and a failed Communist revolution, Mao Zedong has immortalized himself as a villain of China’s past, but also as a contributor to China’s modern governing system. Burdened with the desire to see equality throughout China, Mao turned to the students of China to help him seize power and maintain control over all of its citizens through violent and abusive means. Although he brought a terror, death, and harm to China during his time…

Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang is a memoir about the author when she was in middle school in communist China. The book details her family’s brutal experience during the Cultural Revolution in 1966. Under Chairman Mao Ze-dong’s terrifying rule, the country of China fell into disarray and poverty and many people died. Chairman Mao brought up poor people and punished rich people. He made it so that no one had trust in one another. The following paragraphs will address characters’ desire to belong,…