Mao Zedong

the next everyone suddenly turned into enemies. The middle school on the street near us became a nightmare. Students would drag the teachers and elderly out into the streets and beat them. They gave propaganda speeches about the greatness of Chairman Mao and marched down the street inspecting everyone. It was complete chaos. At that time, people were separated into two factions; the good and the bad. Anyone who was wealthy or had an intellectual family background was considered…

Girl is voiced by the main character, Ji-Li Jiang, who is 12 years old and lives in Shanghai, China. She is an outstanding student, as well as her family is wealthy. She has everything students want. However, her life begins to crash when Chairman Mao launched the Cultural Revolution. The first thing invited Ji-Li persecution comes when she recognized that her family couldn’t pass the background check for the Liberation dance troupe. “Until now I had never doubted that I could achieve anything…

“I was arrested in Northern Vietnam attempting to escape because my family was pretending to be Vietnamese when we were Chinese. We were arrested by the police and put in jail. We were searched for all valuables, jewelry, and money. The only thing we had was a Rolex watch hidden underneath my head. We had nothing” (Do). This was what it was like for Southern Vietnamese people escaping to countries such as China. The Communists and the North won the Vietnam War. Due to the War, millions of…

Still Seeking Synthesis: China’s Urban Poor 1900 to Present The ideal synthesis of capitalism and communism, as presented by Dr Martin Luther King Jr, is a system in which everyone has what they need to live a happy and productive life. While no one has exorbitantly more than they need, people are still encouraged to perform well at their given tasks in order to support themselves and contribute whatever extra they have to others. In short, the synthesis is a capitalist system with a much…

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…

Becoming official in 1949, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) wasted no time in imposing Mao’s ideals on the people. These ideals cultivated a devotion to Mao (and by extension the central government) that demanded limits on expression. Although the communist regime has undergone many changes since Mao’s death, such as implementing certain free market/capitalist ideas to allow China to compete with and eventually…

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…

of Evidence (628 words) China’s economy • Mao believed that in order for China to become a formidable nation it was necessary to industrialize through collectivisation to be achieved through the First Five Year Plan from 1952-1956.1 • Rapid urbanization, tight restrictions on public spending, high…

The Ugly American depicts the difficulties the United States experienced in trying to defeat communism in Southeast Asia. It highlighted methods that the U.S. should have adopted to be successful and the ones that led to failure. The book demonstrated how the political and social climates were affected by individuals’ lack of consideration and awareness of the Sarkhanese culture. The characters in this book are fictional, however some share similar qualities of American diplomats serving abroad…

The intelligentsia, a bourgeois class in pre-Revolutionary Russia, were a group of people that acted as a leadership role in shaping Russian culture and politics. According to Sheila Fitzpatrick, author of The Cultural Front and Modern Russian Historian, states that "the old intelligentsia had 'real culture '…and being products of a prerevolutionary bourgeois upbringing…they knew how to behave in a cultured manner in good society." It was in the late thirties that Josef Stalin both declared…