Deng Xiaoping

“I hate landlords. I hate this landlord family,”, Ji-Li gets frustrated and tired of the way that people treat her, just because of her family status. Which leads to many children separating from their families to support chairman Mao. During the cultural revolution, a lot of family relationships break, like Ji-Li and her family, and Shan-Shan and his mother. One example of a child in the book who left their family to join the cultural revolution is Shan-Shan. In page 142, Shan-Shan’s…

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…

Mao Zedong and Mahatma Gandhi, two respected leaders who achieved great accomplishments during their lives. However, Mao Zedong tends to have a much more negative connotation than Mahatma Gandhi. Some will say that they are very different from each other, while others might claim that they are very similar. On an unbiased view, they are infact very different and very similar in every way. Here in this essay, you will find out everything you need to understand between the two leaders. Mao Zedong…

Before the introduction of Internet and mass media, control over the masses relied on both the CCP presenting themselves and their values like a religion with Mao as the figurehead sent to save all of China, and the cooperation of the masses to spread Mao’s words carry out his wishes. Ellul, a French propaganda analyst and philosopher described China’s propaganda as “using political education, or what he defined as 'brainwashing ', and huge organisations in a situation absent of mass media.…

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress A book is not simply words on paper; it is the messages of an author, the life of a character and the power of entertainment or information. Literature is one of the most popular ways of human expression due to the impact that it has on its readers, which is often a reason for its condemnation in certain occasions in history. This effect is present in Dai Sijie’s historical fiction, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, where nearly all morals of…

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…

China in many centuries regarded itself as self-sufficient and a country that is more superior than other countries. China is a feudal society where it does not associate nor trade with other countries; therefore, this isolation with the outside world indirectly led to fail of the Qing Dynasty. China is transition from a traditional society to a modern one and transformation from the Kuomingdang to the Communism; where under Chairman Mao Zedong’s ruling, people have to get rid of the old and…

Part A: Plan of Investigation (150 words) The following question will be explored in this investigation: To what extent was Mao’s economic planning a complete disaster in the years 1953 to 1967? The scope of the recialism’ by Raphael Shen will be assessed as they provide significant as well as contradicting evidence. A conclusion will then be reached based on evaluations of the sources and the information that they provide. Part B: Summary of Evidence (628 words) China’s economy • Mao…

Mao Zedong subscribed to the “Great Man” theory of history, a school that downplays the trends and forces that shape the world over time in favor of single actors that forcefully bring about punctuated changes. Counter to the rhetoric of the CCP, which touted collectivist uplift through cooperation, Mao’s scholarship led him to appraise the efforts of emperors and tyrants not by their atrocities, but in spite of them, choosing instead to praise their overarching designs to build strong empires.…

From the start of his participation of the Chinese Communist Party in 1943 to his death in 1976, Mao Zedong, or Mao Tse-Tung, influenced the People’s Republic of China and helped to end the Republic Period by leading in the Chinese Rebellion. However, Mao Zedong was not a beneficial leader. He was rather detrimental as is evident through the social, political, and cultural changes of China during this time period. While historians argue that Mao Zedong was one of the most destructive rulers of…