Maoism

Martial art films today are popular, especially in the US. Audiences love the action, and skill, and the grace that all come with the genre. Martial art films seem like just another movie genre for some people. However, martial art films holds an interesting history, going all the way back to China. One can argue that the genre of martial arts films made martial arts and the appreciation of Asian culture more apparent in U.S society. American filmmakers usually casted Asian crew members because…

Propaganda was disseminated into cultural aspects of Chinese life such as music, film, literature, print and media, the education system and work groups. ‘Thought reform’ aimed to ideologically indoctrinate the Chinese citizens so that they would accept Maoism and Marxism-Leninism, and campaigns such as…

went mad. Mao took their frustration as a way for them to carry out a revolution under Mao’s name. From the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution’s propaganda and the intimidation from the Red Guards, China was getting ready for the great return of Maoism and their leader Mao…

Western commentary appearing in circulation between 1953 and 1965 was cautiously declinist, predicting a loss of living standards gained during the initial land reform years. This opinion was largely based upon the notion that Mao’s FFYP was to be firmly rooted in the Soviet model of FFYP, the latter having caused a substantial decline in peasant living standards and conditions. In these terms, the ambitious FFYP, geared towards the rapid industrialisation of heavy and light industry, was…

Imagine being in a war but not using any weapons in that war. The cold war begin and used lost of "weapons" were used to fight it. The cold war started because the united states wanted to stop Comunsim, the Soviets wanted to be more powerful, and both counties did not agree how to help other counties. This war went on for forty years and it cost a lot of problems in the counties. The cold war had a lot of things going on at the time. The Soviets wanted to share things and the united states did…

revolution and followed the example of the Soviet Union through the way they led and developed their country by industry and support from the Peasants although it caused him to fail in the end. Mao split from what was known as Marxism and developed Maoism, the Chinese way of communism. Mao was upset with the Soviet Union leader Khrushchev because he believed in peaceful living between the communist party and the capitalist party. Mao’s people started a strong communist tradition. Two of…

implementing the revolution, Mao signified his return to power after his plan’s disastrous failure. The Cultural Revolution strained the Sino-Soviet relationship, particularly the political relations between China and Russia as the debate on Maoism vs. Marxism-Leninism7 further 4 2, Soon 5 99, An 6 156,…

of political emancipation. Instead they sought to neutralise class altogether by dissolving property rights and restructuring the social relationship to the means of production. The orthodox Marxist tradition as developed in the Soviet Union, and Maoism as developed in China, sought to accomplish this through the bureaucratic apparatus set up by vanguard communist parties. While attractive for its philosophical elegance, to put it mildly, when implemented it caused catastrophic harm. More recent…

create a new China. “Professors were dressed in grotesque clothes and dunce caps, their faces smeared with ink. They were then forced to get down on all fours and bark like dogs. Some were beaten to death, some even eaten -- all for the promulgation of Maoism” Many intellectuals killed themselves after many futile attempts at avoiding the Red Guards. Thousands of others were imprisoned, sent to solitary confinement, or relocated to the countryside in order to “purify” themselves through hard…

The book “China in Our Time” talks about many different things that happened to China in the twentieth century. The major ones are events before communism, Mao Zedong’s era, Deng Xiaoping’s era, and the Tiananmen Square Massacre. These events and people changed China dramatically. At the beginning of the book, it jumps around the twentieth century, about some leaders of China, and a little of what Ross Terrill, the author of the book did in China. The book talks a little bit about the Vietnam…