Zhou Dynasty

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…

Cultural Revolution happened from 1966 to 1976, it also called “The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (Phillips, 2016). The main persons of the Cultural Revolution are Mao Zidong, Liu Shaoqi and also the gang of four. Furthermore, it was a decade-long period of political and social chaos, which caused by Mao Zedong’s order, to use the Chinese masses to reassert his control over the Communist Party(Phillips, 2016). In the following, to introduce the background of Cultural Revolution,…

The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution were revolutions in China that contradicted each other. They were two major events and program that China set in motion during the 1950s and 1960s to help China become the world’s super power country. They were programs set in motion by Mao Zedong after 1949. In the movie, “To Live,” you can see that there were many hidden messages that imply the hard times during the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. Fugui’s two children were killed…

From the late sixties to the mid 1970’s, China’s culture was held hostage by a four individuals who had been hand picked by Mao to control the thoughts and minds of the Chinese people. The four individuals manipulated and lied while attempting to ensure the success of the cultural revolution. These individuals were Jiang Qing, Yao Wenyuan, Zhang Chunqiao, and Wang Hongwen. With varying degrees of success, the Gang of Four were able to mold Chinese culture to fit Mao’s vision. Unfortunately, the…

At the critical age of thirteen, I, like all other thirteen-year-olds, transitioned from childhood into adolescence; unlike most thirteen-year-olds, however, I had the pleasure of experiencing one of those Earth-shattering revelations that rattled the foundations of the world I perceived, and this newfound lens would alter my understanding of… well, everything. My mother has always been adamant that her children, though born and raised in the United States, remain connected to their roots.…

My father, a chef who now lives in Australia, as a child witnessed when the movement began. It was around the time we had just begun kindergarten when the cultural revolution broke out. I was very young back then. We didn’t understand what was happening. One day it was fine, 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…

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…

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress A book is not simply words on paper; it is the messages of an author, the life of a character and the power of entertainment or information. Literature is one of the most popular ways of human expression due to the impact that it has on its readers, which is often a reason for its condemnation in certain occasions in history. This effect is present in Dai Sijie’s historical fiction, Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, where nearly all morals of…

16. Hundreds High Hats Paraded The Cultural Revolution was blazing everywhere in the vast land of China, also burned the ancient city 's streets and back lanes. The millennium city was experiencing a hitherto unknown "revolutionary baptism". To carry the revolution through to the end, our middle school red guards joined “the Revolutionary Red Guards mass nationwide travel". Many students went to Beijing, Wuhan and chairman Mao 's home town - Shao Shan（韶山)…… different cities and placeses.…

Analyzing the Book War by Wang Ping No one knows how being controlled by the government feels like, until you experience it. In the Book War memoir, Wang Ping is a writer that grew up in China in the late 1960’s in which there was a chaotic “Cultural Revolution”. Ping didn 't grew up reading or even seen fairly tales. She didn 't know about them until she found her neighbor outside her house reading The Little Mermaid. A book she had always wanted to read completely, yet if the government found…