Girl. In my newest book‚ Red Scarf Girl‚ by Ji-Li Jiang‚ it retells the personal story of the author when she was a young child during the Cultural Revolution. If you don’t know what the Cultural Revolution was‚ it was an upheaval that overtook China from 1966 to 1976. Mao Zedong‚ the chairman
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by Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong. The Khmer Rouge was a communist organization under the leadership of Pol Pot which took control of Cambodia by force. Although the Cultural Revolution was a movement launched by Mao Zedong and the Khmer Rouge was a regime led by Pol Pot‚ the two revolutions have similar origins‚ objectives‚ and outcomes. _____‚ the Cultural Revolution and the Khmer Rouge have different origination. The Cultural Revolution was a movement launched by Communist leader Mao
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and his communist forces with his party the Kuomintang (the Nationalists). As an influential member of the Kuomintang and close alley of Sun Yat-sen‚ the first president of the Republic of China and founder of the Kuomintang party‚ he sought out to mainly expel Chinese communists and regain unification in China‚ Chiang Kai-shek took over Sun Yat-sen’s place as the leader of the Kuomintang in 1928 when Sun Yat-sen was robbed of cancer. Chiang Kai-shek focused on driving out the communists from the
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had a number of aims to fulfil when he launched the Five-Antis Campaign in 1952. The Communist Party (CPC) had only came to power a few years earlier in 1949‚ due to this they had decided to launch a number of campaigns to consolidate their power such as the Resist America and Aid Korea‚ and Suppression of Counter-Revolutionaries. Through these campaigns the party could enforce their own policies throughout China (mainly in cities however) while showing the masses that the CPC was the new government
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Red Sunset By: Ma Bo This memoir of Ma Bo’s sent shock waves throughout China when it was published and was even first banned by the Communist Government. This passionate story paints a clear picture for what the Great Chinese Cultural Revolution was really like. Many Chinese living today can attest to similar if not identical ordeals as expressed in Ma Bo’s story. The toils of being a young Red Guard in inner China were experienced by many if not millions. The horrors and atrocities were
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critique of the Communist revolution? If so where and how? Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou’s Yellow Earth is a meaningful and controversial film that highlights the young and old‚ realist and idealist‚ as well as the ideal utopia and bounded bureaucracies – touching on the notion of fate. Set in early 1939 in China‚ Yellow Earth follows the story of Gu Qing‚ a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) soldier sent out among the peasants in Northern Shaanxi to collect folksongs‚ to which the Communists intend to rewrite
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and the Guomindang (GMD) made a considerable contribution to the outbreak of revolution in Russia (Oct 1917) and China (1949). Both the PG and GMD were relatively new forms of government placed in power to resolve longstanding issues such as low standards of living and significant needs for reform. As a result‚ Russia had removed its Tsarist system in February earlier that year and China also expelled its dynastic system to become a Republic in 1911. However‚ Economic mismanagement and a nonexistent
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To what extent have the economic reforms of Deng Xiaoping changed the form of Communism that previously existed in China? The economic reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping during his term as leader of the Chinese Communist Party from 1977 to 1992 has meant that China is an economic power in the world today. Prior to Deng’s term the Chinese economy was centrally planned‚ meaning that all economic activity was controlled by the government and all companies were owned by the State. Deng’s economic
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in China during communist leader Mao Zedong’s reign as Chariman‚ as well as the political influences and extremes that lead him to becoming an international ballet dancer. The challenging experiences of growing up in the Cultural Revolution are clearly evident in the text as Li narrates his life within the times of Communism and subsequent attempted mass communist indoctrination. Frequently contrasting to the West‚ this text invites a dominant reading of what life was like in communist China. Cultural
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Prescribed Subject 2: The emergence and development of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)‚ 1946 to 1964 1. (a) According to Source A‚ Mao wanted to start a technological revolution in China for several reasons. Firstly‚ he believed that after the anti-feudal land reform‚ agricultural co-operativization‚ and the socialist reconstruction of private industries‚ commerce‚ and handicrafts‚ a technological revolution would be the logical next step. Confirming this state of mind is Mao’s quote
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