Mao Zedong

The wolf on the hill is never as hungry as the wolf climbing the hill. This powerful quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger goes hand to hand with Chen Guangcheng author of The Barefoot Lawyer. Chen Guangcheng a man who is blind, self-taught, and determined to fight for justice; who goes against all the odds to make sure justice was served to the people who had injustice from the government of China. In this analytical essay, I will use The Barefoot Lawyer to analyze three topics how the barefoot…

Áccording to Mao Tse-tung's physician, Mao was unaware of the extent of the famine, and by the time he came to know about it it was already too late Mao's physician believed that he may have been unaware of the extent of the famine, about the fake reports regarding food production by his staff and also did not want to criticise his policies and decisions. However upon learning of the extent of the starvation, Mao vowed to stop eating meat, an action followed by his staff. However, Professor…

The Development of China China has many characteristics in its History of development. These include; language, geography, agriculture, trade and literature. These views and characteristics have helped unite and give a common identity to the people of China. Agriculture and Geography There were three climate zones which were, northern china, central china (Yanzi River)and southern china. Each climate zone measured different amounts of rain fall each year. Wheat and millet in the North…

Wang Aihe’s Cosmology and Political Culture reexamines the relation between cultural heritage of cosmology and political heritage of the Chinese empires through Shang to Han dynasty by taking a closer look into the transition from sifang 四方(“four quarters”) to wuxing五行(“five phases”) cosmology. In this ambitious book, she effectively argues that Chinese “cosmology and political power were mutually constructive” (p. 210) instead of being static and self-existing, and in so doing, successfully…

Chairman Mao Ze-dong’s implementations of his Communist ideologies in China from 1949 to 1976 resulted in some of the worst disasters the Chinese have endured. Under Mao, countless innocent Chinese citizens had their lives completely destroyed or ended because they often were falsely accused of political crimes. Various political policies and implementation by whoever Mao favored held limitless power to ruin entire generations of families due to connections to intellectuals, landowners, or…

Young and Restless in China In the documentary Young and Restless in China, Wei Zhanyan is a young Chinese migrant worker who left her home in rural China at 13 to work at an industrial park near Beijing. In the film, Zhanyan explains that she was sent away by her parents to help support her family and pay for her brother's education. Working and living so far away from her family gives Zhanyan a sense independence but also causes a great deal of sadness and anxiety. Despite the sadness she…

Aris Folley Professor Schweizer Non-West. Literature 2 November 2014 Raise the Red Lantern: Comparison Paper of Literary to Film Despite the novella’s publish in 1990, one of Su Tong’s most notable literary oeuvres, as critics would acclaim, Wives and Concubines, speaks volumes to a socialist reality in its cinematic representation of 1920s China. Abandoning the country’s heavily political influenced rule of creative expression, Tong stripped his work of traditional Chinese custom, seeking to…

Growing Up in the People’s Republic Weili, Ye, and Xiaodong, Ma. 2005. Growing up in The People's Republic. New York: Palgrave MacMillan. Growing up in the People’s Republic is a detailed account of two individual women’s generational struggle during the controversial periods of The Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the Cultural Fever of the 1980’s. Their case study tries to define their individual identity growing up in Communist China. Ma Xiaodong and Ye Weili’s lives allow the…

Research Question: To what extent did the uprising of peasants during the Sino-Japanese War in 1937 contribute to the Chinese Communist Party’s victory over the Chinese Nationalist Party in the Chinese Revolution in 1946? Relevance of the Source: The two sources that are evaluated are Fanshen: A Documentary of Revolution in a Chinese Village by William Hinton and The Reluctant Combatant: Japan and the Second Sino-Japanese War by Lin Si-Yun and Minoru Kitamura. These sources are relevant to my…

Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin are the two most notorious mass murderers in history, however, Mao Zedong murdered over twice as many people as Stalin. Zedong attempted to reform the Chinese government into a communist state. In order to accomplish this, he imprisoned, tortured, and starved tens of millions of people. Mao Zedong murdered over 50 million innocent people through these three stages: The Great Leap Forward, the Chinese Laogai, and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.…