Mao Zedong

The contemporary Chinese society is very different from the traditional one though some of the features are inherited. One of the biggest differences is that the feudal political system is greatly different from today’s separation of powers. The way to maintain the balance in politics has a vast change that the government leaders (the Emperor, the President, or the Chief Executive) of the state no longer enjoy the superior status. In ancient China, the powers of the emperors come from the…

centralized government. Mao Tse Tung, leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), began to bring China back onto its feet. When Mao died, Deng Xiaoping, leader of the Nationalists, did what he believed to be best for all of China. While both of these men wanted what they thought would be best for China, their techniques of doing so varied tremendously. Both Mao Tse Tung and Deng Xiaoping vary in their ideal visions for modern China politically, socially, economically, and culturally. Mao Tse…

They have chants along the streets of China saying “Long Live Mao” and “Build a New China”. Under Mao’s rule, they have public execution. Long’er, the man who Fugui lost everything to, gets executed because he had a lot of wealth. Fugui tells Jiazhen that if he ended up not gambling and losing everything, it would…

They foreshadowed the Cultural Revolution, in the way which they used repression and symbolized Mao’s power. It was a campaign directed by Mao that had the purpose of allowing citizens to publicly and openly criticise the Chinese Communist Party, with the goal of gaining a more unified and constructive society. However, from the situation of the Hungarian 1956 revolt against Russia and Kruschev…

Qin Shi Huangdi, the first Qin emperor, envisioned a central bureaucratic structure headed by royalty to rule China under his name. Though it came at the severe cost of public sentiment, Qin was an extremely proactive emperor who implemented much of what he had envisioned before. It’s agreed upon that the Qin Dynasty laid the foundation for the massive cultural and economic development of China that took place during the Han Dynasty. Although the Qin Dynasty is easily considered among the most…

Beginning in 1949, Gail Hershatter frames the Chinese Revolution through the lens of the instrumental but often forgotten major players of the transformed society, rural women. The Gender of Memory disaggregates the public remembrance of 1949 to the modern period through the lens of intersectional identities in rural China. This is done primarily the implication of rural existence, poverty, womanhood, parenthood, and the shifting societal values under the rule of the Party-state. The transition…

American’s First Amendment gives us many significant freedoms such as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and freedom to assembly, Communist China doesn’t have any of these freedoms if it goes against the People’s Government. In Fan Shen’s book, Gang of One Memoirs of a Red Guard, he had no rights to believe or say anything different from what the government wants. Shen is born and grows in a Chinese Communist family in Red China, and he tries to escape the legal way because if he doesn’t it…

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…

In this book, ‘China’s Future’, David Shambaugh argues that there will be only limited progress and reforms in economy if China is not followed by significant political liberalization and releasing of the connection between the society and party-state. He believes that the future of China will be dependent on the communist party who makes choices of domestic political system and without it, the results of the reforms will be only marginal. To illustrate Shambaugh’s words, he shows the analogy…

I would rather live in rural china described in Sandalwood Death than in Catastrophe and Contention in Rural China because of my likelier chances of survival. In Thaxton’s work, China undergoes attempts at changing economic and political structures within the country. Politically, the CCP now controls the country’s central government and forces its’ citizens to follow the rules and laws and rules they set forth. One hotly controversial rule was the amount of grain the government can procure.…