Deng Xiaoping

“It will be like that until someone decides to change it. All of it. But how did you change an entire culture? Revolutions were about politics, not perceptions, weren 't they?” (“A Quote from Infidel”). I believe this quote really defines what the Cultural Revolution was all about because the Cultural Revolution started with one man with a vision to shape China’s future, and that man was Mao Zedong. He wanted to spread his ideologies across China and impose his beliefs. He paved the way for the…

A Decade of History Much of the Western world associates Chines with the restriction of individual expression. This view was enhanced by the West’s observations of repression under the political leadership of Chairman Mao Zedong. This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the Cultural Revolution that was started by Chairman Mao Zedong to strengthen his control over the Chinese government and renew the revolutionary spirit of the Chinese people, and in particular, the youth of China. Mao Zedong…

Mao is a self-proclaimed Marxist-Leninist, however, most of his policies are nothing close to being Marxist-Leninist. Moreover, Mao disagreed with Marx’s key theory of historical materialism, which is the study of history on the basis of the materialistic condition at that period. Instead, he believed that history is shaped by an individual’s thoughts. We can see this concept being applied throughout his reign. One example is The Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution, commonly referred as the…

16. Hundreds High Hats Paraded The Cultural Revolution was blazing everywhere in the vast land of China, also burned the ancient city 's streets and back lanes. The millennium city was experiencing a hitherto unknown "revolutionary baptism". To carry the revolution through to the end, our middle school red guards joined “the Revolutionary Red Guards mass nationwide travel". Many students went to Beijing, Wuhan and chairman Mao 's home town - Shao Shan（韶山)…… different cities and placeses.…

America is and still the number one richest and powerful country on earth beside China.China is the world 's second-largest country in terms of his economy and his population. Nowadays chinese influences are everywhere.Can China rise peaceful?Can America maintain it number one position in the future? what will be the relationship between America and China?If China become number one will most of the world be communist countries like China or will they still be democratic countries? Can one day…

Deep in the zenith of Communism and at the height of its influence around the world Deng Xiaoping the leader of the Chinese Communist Part (CCP) in 1978 began this reform. Deng shifted past Chinese policy and emplaced a series of economic and political reform that began the push for Chinas market economy. These changes were small but were instrumental especially after the shift…

There is but one china, and Taiwan is a part of China.” This statement, otherwise known as the One China Policy is absolutely correct. Today, China is a country divided into two separate governments; Taiwan which is governed by the Republic of China, and the mainland which is governed by The Peoples Republic of China (cfr.org, Michal Roberge and Youkyoung Lee). Here lies the problem; each government claims that they are the true China! To fully understand this highly controversial dilemma, one…

As one of the oldest civilizations with both a national and common cultural history that has lasted over 10,000 years and dynasties that span 4,000 years. China has a very long history that is very complex and its identity is not static, but ever changing. China can be identified as very protective of its people when it built the Great Wall of China in order to guard itself against nomads or isolationist when the country only traded selective commodities in limited exchanges with certain foreign…

It is Internationally perceived that China has abandoned Maoism. Yet there is a prohibition in china on either publically questioning the validity of Maoism or questioning the ‘Maocity’ of the current actions of the CPC. Anyway, Mao’s successor Deng Xiaoping restored the essentials of capitalism in china to eradicate all ideological and physiological obstacles to economic reform. In short Mao’s legacy has become represented primarily in Nationalistic and patriotic terms and has withered totally…

The Tiananmen Square massacre resulted in the death of around two thousand Chinese citizens (Paxman 181). These students advocated for their right to vote in democratic elections and express their freedom of speech. However, the Communist government responded by sending tanks to slaughter the students gathered in Tiananmen Square. China then attempted to downplay the massacre in order to maintain “peace” among the citizens. Following the massacre at Tiananmen Square, the Communist government of…