Mao Zedong

Rights and equality for any race, gender, or wealth class defines social justice. Three short stories that symbolize social justice are “Saboteur,” “A Worn Path,” and “The Lesson.” In the story “Saboteur” the antagonist is a police officer who treats the protagonist unjustly. The social justice issue being portrayed is inequality. In contrast, “A Worn Path” is a story of an elderly African-American woman who is on a quest. While on her quest, racism is illustrated as the social issue. Lastly…

1.0 Introduction Communism was one of the various ideological trends in the 20th century. Communism is a social, political, and economic doctrine that the goal to build communist society, which is aiming to replace private property to all the production are owned in common. With the developed by capitalism and the development of the industrial revolution, the proletariat is growing. The proletariat is on the stage of political history, under the guidance of Marx, the socialist movement is…

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…

fuel the most darkest and dangerous of thoughts, dictatorship and totalitarian regimes often arise out of possession of a goal to achieve happiness for everyone under their own thoughts, illustrated by the greatest of dictators such as Joseph Stalin, Mao…

government claims that they are the true China! To fully understand this highly controversial dilemma, one must understand the complicated history behind this problem. At the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, the Chinese communist leader, Mao Zedong, exiled the old government and created a new nation: The People’s Republic of China (PRC) (Roberge and Lee). As a result of this exile, the Nationalist party if China, the KMT, fled to Taiwan and claimed its independence as a distinct State…

Modernization: Democracy, was written in December 1978 and titled as such in direct reference to these modernizations. It was posted on the Democracy Wall in Beijing as part of the overall “New Enlightenment” movement, which took place following the death of Mao Zedong and the arrest of the Gang of Four in 1976. This was an incredibly lively period in China as many were beginning to criticize the radical leftist portion of the Chinese Communist Party and were questioning the best policies to…

Chairman Mao hoped to create a stronger China using the principles of Marxism and had scholars around China apply Marx and Engels to their fields of study however possible. Marx’s and Engels interest in Shakespearean works in particular inspired Chinese Marxists…

resumed the control of Hong Kong. However, the book was most likely written in 1990’s. The time period that the book takes place in was during the cultural revolution. The cultural revolution that took place in China from 1966 until 1976. Chairman Mao Zedong, leader of the Chinese communists started the cultural revolution so that he can regain his position in the government. This revolution was a campaign to eliminate the communist party of its opponents and to implant profound values in the…

feared that the US Department of State would oppose the foreign negotiations. Plus, Pakistan had good relations with both the US and PRC, so it made sense to contact China via Pakistan. Finally, on February 21, 1972, Nixon flew to China and met with Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, and Zhou Enlai, the PRC Premier to discuss détente between the two countries. The results of Nixon’s week in China benefited both countries. As the trip neared its…

The U.S. and China seem to have got off on the wrong foot from the very beginning because of ideological differences. Sino-American relations have been stressed since Mao Zedong established the People’s Republic of China in 1945. The U.S. and Chinese conflict over communism led to lack of communication until Ping-Pong Diplomacy in 1971. Since then, China-U.S. trade relations formed with the U.S.-China Relations Act of 2000 and these relations have grown, but there has been conflict as well.…