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    The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution were revolutions in China that contradicted each other. They were two major events and program that China set in motion during the 1950s and 1960s to help China become the world’s super power country. They were programs set in motion by Mao Zedong after 1949. In the movie, “To Live,” you can see that there were many hidden messages that imply the hard times during the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. Fugui’s two children were killed…

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    Age Of Ambition Summary

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    Age of Ambition Age of Ambition attempts to dissect the development of “Truths” in a society that is full of ambiguities, outlining key issues contributing to a contentious climate of uncertainty. Four notable issues that Osnos’ book addresses in Part II revolve around the themes of access, censorship, resistance, and corruption. The rise of Internet and the growing access to global markets as a result of Deng Xiaoping’s policies, gave rise to a revolving door of opportunities. Most impactful…

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    Introduction China in the early 1900s was living under an unstable economy due to poverty and a weak government. China was ruled by warlords and landlords, they took whatever was needed to help themselves. When the people of a nation are unhappily ruled by a dominant force, without aid from foreign allies, they will most likely become influenced by the ideas communism. China developed the Chinese Communist Party, in 1921, to unify the nation to stop poverty and become an independent country.…

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    Mao Zedong Dbq

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    Mao Zedong got power by promising to make China better in 1950-1976. Communism is a way of organizing a society in which the government 's goal is to have social, political and economic equality that is ruled by a dictator. Mao Zedong did not make a better society economically because landlords were forced to leave their property, their society was not doing well and the society socially had religion and culture destroyed and including discrimination towards landlords. Mao Zedong did not make a…

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    “The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, were ill-conceived and led to disastrous consequences.” (Scharm) In consequence of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, Mao enforced anti-rightest movement which was just the start of Mao’s reign of terror. Mao felt hated and rejected, therefore, to fix the problem Mao simply decided to exterminate all of the people who were against him. These people who were typically educated, independent thinkers were called the Rightists and to make them agree…

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    Although Zedong intended China to strive from this switch from agrarian society to a socialist society, the Great Leap Forward was a failure. This was the reform that led to the Great Chinese Famine. The rapid industrialization and collectivization that went hand in hand with this project was only possible through forced labor. The whole event ended with more deaths than experienced in the holocaust…

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    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…

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    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.…

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    How Did Mao Change China

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    the early 1980’s, he said, “All great men are seven parts good and three parts bad.” However he only fulfilled this a few times at the beginning of his career as the leader of China. Although Mao did live up to his words by first directing his focus to the people, he soon changed and became the opposite of what he had described a great man to be by ultimately focussing on himself. This caused there to be chaos to erupt later. Mao was, at one point, the great man he had described when he…

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    Chinese Identity

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    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 countries or a country that was dominated by Westerners. These historical facts are…

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