Zhou Dynasty

At the late of 20th century, Mao Zedong, communist leader, organized the Cultural Revolution in order to assert the authority over the Chinese government. He declared that the nation’s youth to purify the “impure” elements of Chinese society and to revive the revolutionary spirit that lead to victory in the civil war 20 decades earlier in order to restore the China’s reputation and power. However, his leadership position in government as in the Soviet Union was weakened and failed his Great Leap…

Within the People’s Republic of China, Chairman Mao Zedong during the latter years of his reign, mid-1960’s to mid-1970’s, implemented a series of reforms that attempted to further guide China towards a socialist society vis-à-vis a communist society. These reforms that Mao implemented were in regards to the increase corruption found within local leadership and underdevelopment found within villages, for example: Chen Village. Chen Village, a village within the People’s Republic of China,…

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…

The Famine In the start of the second five year plan, Mao told his people to eat as much as tell wanted to eat so that their strengths can go into agriculture and produce more food to provide to the people of china. During the autumn season, people were told to eat, not worrying about the winter time. During the winter season the amount of food supply decreased. During Chinese New Year, the elderly and the sick began to die and over 25 million people were starving when spring came. The…

Creative Component: The Life and Legacy of Chairman Mao Track Listing with descriptions 1. Seven Nation Army - The White Stripes: In many ways, the song Seven Nation Army by the White Stripes can be representative of one of Mao’s greatest accomplishments: the Long March. The mood of the song is upbeat compared to the grueling Long March. However, the lyrics and title provide many similarities to the March. The first two lines of the song are, “I 'm gonna fight 'em off A seven nation army…

work outside of the home the idea of gender independence in China had seen a possible beginning; which was ended by Xi Jinping 's reign in which women began to be brought back to focusing on the homefront. This began to change when in 1970 Premier Zhou Enlai mandated China’s controversial “One Child Policy” in which parents were only legally allowed to give birth to one child in order to make sure the nation does not become overpopulated. (Fong, 2002) Through the usage of this policy in China,…

Mao Tse-Tung, also known as Mao Zedong, was a principal Chinese Marxist theorist and the Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party from its inception as China’s governing regime in 1949 until his death in 1976. Economically, Tse-Tung is known for his introduction of multiple famous economic policies and five year plans, including the first Five Year Plan of 1953 and the subsequent Great Leap Forward, credited as responsible for completely redefining and modernizing the Chinese economy. In addition…

A country’s decision to use force on its own people is always a difficult one. A country that has gone through many changes and still trying to find its way has to balance many factors when attempting to determine how to respond to a demonstration of it’s citizens. The use of military force to clear protesters from China’s historically and politically significant Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989 was the result of a tumultuous debate about the direction China must follow in the post-Mao era among…

“Let a Hundred Flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend” -Mao Zedong, May 1956 This was the beginning of the Hundred Flowers campaign, a movement within the Communist government aiming to terminate restrictions for Chinese citizens and granting them a freedom of thought and speech. Launched by Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China in 1956, it encouraged Chinese citizens to share ideas, opinions, suggestions and allowed them to openly criticise the party and its policies.…

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-76) launched and orchestrated by Chairman Mao Zedong aimed to maintain his power in the Chinese government by spreading his ideological beliefs. He aimed to destroy the Four Olds (old ideas, old culture, old customs and old habits). In foundation to this, the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Propaganda Department (CCP-CPD) sought to bring about ‘thought reform’ through the use of propaganda. Propaganda was disseminated into cultural aspects of…