Kuomintang

years this alliance met a bitter end when in 1927 Kuomintang leader Chiang Kai-shek turned on the Communists and began purging members, in a single year membership for the Communist party went from 58,000 to less than 10,000. This sparked a civil war between the Communists and the Kuomintang, which forced the smaller, weaker Communist Party to retreat to the countryside and rely on rural peasants for support (Meisner 28). The betrayal of the Kuomintang and subsequent decimation of Communist…

“The events in this story took place in 1931, it was a period of great stress for the Chinese people. Groaning under the triple oppression of imperialists, feudal landlords, and comprador-capitalists. The working people suffered greatly. Even the industrialists and the traders did not know which way to turn. It was a cut-throat society. The story shows how big fish ate little fish and they in turn ate the shrimps.” (The Lin Family Shop, 0:00-3:20) The movie The Lin Family Shop (1959) was the…

John Carter Vincent’s dismissal from the Foreign Service is the result of ideological upheaval that embraced fear and blame. I believe that frustration over Chinese nationalist defeat fueled a hunt for a scapegoat, and John Carter Vincent was one of many unfairly punished. I also believe that the testaments of men in this instance should not have led to the discrediting of Vincent. Vincent’s worst demonstrable crime was reason and tolerance, and the amassing of objective but controversial…

The Tiananmen square protests of 1989 quickly turned into The Tiananmen square massacre was the most gruesome historical event in Chinese history, killing hundreds. Tens of thousands are arrested, many are imprisoned, and an unknown number are executed. Chinese troops bombarded Tiananmen Square in Beijing, killing and arresting thousands of pro-democracy protesters. The brutal Chinese governments assault on the protesters shocked the West and brought denunciations and sanctions from the United…

Mao Zedong His advocates say he was a visionary who transformed China into a modern nation. The others say he was a tyrant who’s responsible for millions of deaths. Mao Zedong was born on December 26, 1893 into a wealthy farmer’s family in Shaoshan village. This peasant boy soon grew up to be the Chairman of the Communist Party of China, recorded today as one of the most brutal dictators. Communism Even from a young age, the ambition inside Mao was recognizable. He enjoyed reading “historical…

This book is about four Chinese women Kieu Chinh, Tsai Chin, France Nuyen, and lasty Lisa Lu they meet regularly to talk about their familial stories while playing Mahjong. This book takes place in San Francisco, California and China in San Francisco Bay Area, with a trip at the end of the book to Guangzhou and Shanghai, China. It seems that it in the years of the 1980's. My First thoughts about this book are that these four Chinese women went to San Francisco to find a…

Overflowing with dramatization, grievousness and loathsomeness, this phenomenal family story of life and death mirrors China 's century of turbulence through the eyes of Jung Chang 's three generations of family: her grandmother, mother and inevitably a life account of herself. In this book, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, we get to see the painful effects of Mao’s personality cult, and his painful policies. At age of two, Yu-fang, Jung Chang 's grandmother had her feet bounded. She was…

traditional ways have been perceived as the cause of the foreign control of economic resources in which nationalism has been triggered, such has arrived in the form of revolution. Those responsible for said revolution are commonly referred to as the Kuomintang, a group dedicated to the adaptation of the governmental customs of western nations. Unfortunately, such territories have favored Japan, the historic adversary of China, in the event…

Farewell, My Concubine is a Chinese film that presents the lives of two men who found great fame in Peking opera in 20th century China. While the film shows their skill within the art and the successful lives they gained with it, it also shows the hardships that they had to face as children, then later as adults when the government and society of China changes before them as they age. This film is not only a great introduction to the vibrant and beautiful art of Peking opera, but also provides a…

The First World War was a calamity, but what was done in the wake of it, and the world it created, set the stage for even worse events. The post war world teetered on a precarious balance in both Europe and Asia. The nationalism that caused the First World War, manifested itself after the war and threatened post war security. Post- war Europe and Asia were fractured because of issues stemming from the First World War and combined with nascent and growing nationalism. Europe bore the brunt of…