Deng Xiaoping

Intellectual repression is a sign of any oppressive government. Following the failure of the Great Leap Forward, Communist leader Mao Zedong 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…

Robert Greenleaf while showing the flaws of traditional leadership in his prodigious play titled, ‘Servant Leadership’, said, “Traditional Leadership…is authoritarian with accumulation and exercise of power without clearly defined task and measurable result”. He thus implies that servant leadership share powers, put the need of others first, and help people to develop as highly as possible. Preferring this style of leadership, I draw strength from historical, literary and personal experiences.…

Mao’s China and Relations to Animal Farm A century ago, many parts of the world were suffering from atrocities in their country. In this essay, I will be talking about Mao Zedong’s time in China and I will be relating it to animal farm. I believe that both Mao and Napoleon had shown ways of totalitarianism, and I will be talking about their decisions that led to that. Mao’s Upbringing: As a child, Mao was born in a village called Shaoshan. His family were peasants, and the environment he…

Áccording to Mao Tse-tung's physician, Mao was unaware of the extent of the famine, and by the time he came to know about it it was already too late Mao's physician believed that he may have been unaware of the extent of the famine, about the fake reports regarding food production by his staff and also did not want to criticise his policies and decisions. However upon learning of the extent of the starvation, Mao vowed to stop eating meat, an action followed by his staff. However, Professor…

Beijing Consensus At the beginning of the 20th century, the Europe found itself at the crossroads; socially, the Europe still had its feet in a medieval class dominated society, while technologically it was becoming the wonder of the world. The previous century was a witness to unprecedented, and never seen before transformation, the once agrarian European society altered itself into industrial culture. The social injustice and exploitation caused by the uprooted lives, in the end was misused by…

The interpretive nature of arts allows for a diverse population of admirers; art, in its many forms, is all-embracing. Despite the artist’s intentions, an art display leaves different impressions that adapt to an individual. Worldwide, art progresses in every culture at different rates, but simultaneously creates cross-cultural connections. Ai Weiwei, a Chinese citizen and activist-artist, blended international influences with traditional components of his national territory. Weiwei developed a…

The world has observed some of the greatest balance of powers in history between countries that have dominated economically and politically. The People’s Republic of China (of which will be referred to as its conventional short form China) has remained powerful for an extensive period of time, having a far-reaching impact on the political and economic atmospheres of the world. China has seen a vast history, especially during the Communist era and the former leader Chairman Mao Zedong, founder of…

Wang Aihe’s Cosmology and Political Culture reexamines the relation between cultural heritage of cosmology and political heritage of the Chinese empires through Shang to Han dynasty by taking a closer look into the transition from sifang 四方(“four quarters”) to wuxing五行(“five phases”) cosmology. In this ambitious book, she effectively argues that Chinese “cosmology and political power were mutually constructive” (p. 210) instead of being static and self-existing, and in so doing, successfully…

Chairman Mao Ze-dong’s implementations of his Communist ideologies in China from 1949 to 1976 resulted in some of the worst disasters the Chinese have endured. Under Mao, countless innocent Chinese citizens had their lives completely destroyed or ended because they often were falsely accused of political crimes. Various political policies and implementation by whoever Mao favored held limitless power to ruin entire generations of families due to connections to intellectuals, landowners, or…

Though it may come as a shock, many of our opinions on significant matters came from propaganda, as it is the most manipulative and efficient method of control. Li Cunxin, Mao’s Last Dancer young readers' edition, 2T003 demonstrates effective representations of propaganda, portraying the hardships and ordeals that Li arose under the reign of Chairman Mao Zedong and his beliefs in communism. Douglas MacArthur 'now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of…