Jiang Qing

They were enacted in hope of saving China’s economy, following the death of Mao Zedong. These reforms stressed economic self-reliance. They wanted China to have a sense of stability in their economy, while being independent at the same time. The Four Modernizations were designed to make China an economic power by the early 21st century. China was, in fact, able to hurry along their economic development with the help of these reforms. China used foreign investment, a more open market, access to…

Thesis: Political liberalization and democracy do not always follow capitalistic reforms. One way to describe China’s political culture is a subject society. Chinese society and politics are shaped by the communist party and elites, and the Chinese people are unable to change this. In the book, the author describes news blackouts which prohibit any covering of the specified topic. In fact, around the anniversary of Tiananmen Square, the covering of any bad news is prohibited, and the government…

Why China? China, the world’s second largest economy and home to over a billion people, is or will be a major market for most businesses. China exists in all supply chains or value chains, either as a consumer of certain goods and services or a manufacturer of a large number of goods and increasingly, a provider of services. China is home to one of the most rapidly urbanizing populations, with 300 million migrating from rural areas to the cities. These people are potential consumers for many of…

nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, many elites, new intellectuals and reform-minded Chinese had realized that the existing political and social systems which lasted for more than thousands years should be changed immediately, or the Qing Empire would collapse quickly. The actual ruler of the Empire, Empress Dowager Cixi, who oppressed the Reform of 1898, recognized the urgent needs for reform as she felt gradually losing control, respects and confidence over both domestic and…

image is that they clenched their fist and the soldiers are big, tall and just smaller than Mao. The fist would like to show that the Culture Revolution is a mass fighting and to persuade people to fight for Mao. On the other hand, according to Jiang Qing principle “highlight the main heroes in the positive character”. the big image of soldiers is going to going to sand the message that they are the heroes of the people who should follow their steps for the revolution. (III) The fiery colors…

On a saturday afternoon, visiting the Pacific Asia Museum as I walked in I have noticed how small the place is but there is an amazing amount of variety of art collection. When I walked in, the people around me are admiring each of the art pieces from the display. Walking to a quiet area, each individual are grasping every moments of how fantastic the pieces are. One of the part that captured my attention is that I absolutely loved is that some of the art pieces are passed down as generations…

In 1840 the Qing dynasty was in control of the Chinese government. China was threatened by the British and Western Barbarians. This resulted in what is known as the Opium War. The British government was exporting Opium to China. Chinese citizens were getting addicted to opium and eventually the Chinese government stopped opium import from Great Britain. This hurt the British economy and resulted in a war between the two countries. At the end of the Opium War China was forced to give up land and…

The urban poor became the targets of rampant recruitment from Jiang Kai Shek and the rest of the GMD, as he tried to appeal to the middle and lower class. City dwellers also were scarred by the crossfire, and in some cases became the subjects of attacks. In 1937, the residents of Nanjing were terrorized by Japanese…

cadres, and even ordinary people, thousands of people into unjust verdict.In Cultural Revolution,there are many literary works like this. But in the literary inquisition of Cultural Revolution,have some different between Qin Shihuang's Fenshukengru and Qing literary inquisition.They have some same and different. Cultural Revolution and the Inquisition, Fenshukengru on appearance is not much difference with the results. Inquisition and Fenshukengru are to strengthen the feudal monarchy policies.…

squeeze an empty beer bottle up the man’s trouser leg. This was a newly invented measurement. If the bottle could not be stuffed into the trouser leg, the pants were considered four-olds and treated with ‘revolutionary operations’— cut open. (Ji-Li Jiang pg. 31)” As you can see, there was not a lot of…