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June 4, 1989 is a day remembered in numerous parts around the world as a dark and somber tragedy that disregarded the most basic values of freedom and democracy. Yet this event is often viewed in the narrow lens as a failure of an attempt to democratize. Through this lens, the historical contexts and following consequences are severely oversimplified, which results in an inadequate and biased perspective of the event itself. The China today is still shaped and molded by the memories of the…

Dalai Lama Case Dalai Lama is a political leader, who fights for Tibet to be an independent and democratic state from China. Dalai Lama is known for his humanitarian efforts like conducting workshops worldwide, giving lectures, and leading conferences. As a leader, Dalai Lama changed the religious and political point of view of Tibetans. As mentioned by Otero (2010), Dalai Lama brought changes for Tibet even though Chinese took the power over Tibet. Dalai Lama also proved his motives to the…

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 Chinese. There were multiple rebellions during the Qing Dynasty…

Cultural Revolution Tsun Hin Ng 9E Introduction The Cultural Revolution was a movement that took place in China during 1966 to 1976 aiming to cancel traditional thoughts and practices such as confucianism and to strengthen the thoughts of communism. He also aimed to have a fair and equal community amongst the people. Background Information – Before the Revolution Before the Cultural Revolution, Mao launched a movement called the ‘Great Leap Forward’. This movement aimed on industrialising…

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,…

to $6000 in 2012. Pulling hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. The idea was that the less people there are, the less pressure on the economy there is. Officials report that the policy has prevented over 400 million births, although third party experts have stated that 100 million births is a more realistic number. (Beech,…

China has a long history comprised of several dynasties throughout time. Scattered throughout Chinese rule are foreign conquerors that lead China into prosperity. Peasant rebel revolts, as well as a series of famines that struck China during the early seventeenth century, left the system of government vulnerable. After the collapse of the Ming Dynasty in 1644, Manchu people flooded south into China from their Manchuria homeland of the north and proclaimed a new, “pure” reign of power known as…

with only an estimated three hundred in the initial crowd, growing to hundreds of thousands to protest against the governing party. Most of the original three hundred left voluntarily once the police had arrived but news quickly spread and crowds sweltered with posters, megaphones, banners and chants. These people put themselves in danger to stop the horror of the Communist Party. As the streets erupted the rally turned to a riot. The protestors stormed the gates on Jinjiang but police were…

government listen to their ideas. Several members of the Chinese government, including Deng Xiaoping (current leader of China), assumed that the protesters were attempting to overthrow the Communist Party. Others were sympathetic, favoring a conciliatory approach, including Zhao Ziyang (General Secretary of the Communist Party). The group of protesters became increasingly larger, exceeding 1 million people. Teachers, doctors, housewives,…