autobiography: Mao’s Last Dancer written by Li Cunxin 2. What is this text about? Summarise the story or the premise of the text. The text is about a young‚ peasant boy called Li Cunxin who lives in a poor village in north-east China. The text is set around the rule of the communist party led by Chairman Mao. One day‚ Li is visited by Madame Mao’s cultural delegates at his school. They are searching for young children to be guards for Chairman Mao and Li becomes one of them. The text conveys a physical and
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Yahoo! and Customer Privacy (A) In the summer of 2004‚ the People’s Republic of China asked Yahoo!’s Chinese subsidiary for the name and address associated with username "houyan1989@yahoo.com.cn." The government gave no explanation of why it needed this information or what it intended to do with it. Yahoo!’s privacy policy stated it would not divulge a customer’s personal information unless officially requested via a court order or some other legal means. This was new and unexplored territory‚ however
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freedom alive in old Communist China? Or has the government instilled false messages and fear to squash any of these thoughts from even entering citizens’ minds - crushing all hope for speaking with their own voices and living on their own terms? Mao’s Last Dancer takes place in old communist China‚ when Chairman Mao is at his most powerful. mao dominated the culture revolution leads people lose the Spiritual pursuit and freedom for more than ten years history in old China. Through the specific
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During Stalin’s regime he implemented many new domestic policies. One of these policies included his First Five Year Plan. In 1933 he delivered a speech to the central Communist Party about the outcomes of this plan. The origin of the source is Joeseph stalin‚ who addressed the results of his this Five Year Plan after it had been in place for the five years. The country of origin of this source was the U.S.S.R.‚ which was under Communsit rule at the time. Stalin’s purpose in presenting the speech
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Paper 1: Mao Zedong 1. A) According to source A‚ Mao Zedong along with the Party Central Committee were able to efficiently construct a socialist system in China‚ within a very short period of time. Mao and the PCC were able to analyze the economy of China and develop a system called the Great Leap Forward‚ which would fix the problems that they had discovered. That system quickly transformed China into a self-sufficient country‚ which were able to function under a socialist system. B)
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Throughout the “Life and Death in Shanghai” article‚ I learned how life for Nien Cheng and her family was unjust and dangerous. Nien Cheng explains how the education system in China is unfair and how it affected her daughter‚ Meiping. Meiping is a young 23 year old woman who grew up experiencing the Communist rule. Nien and her daughter were wealthy‚ so they enjoyed many educational advantages. However‚ I the government instituted a new system that would discriminate against her social class. If
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were many Government attempts to ban the Communist Party of Australia in the 1950’s. The idea of “Reds under the Beds”‚ was presented in the Communist Party Dissolution Bill and the Petrov Affair‚ which Menzies used to his political advantage. These two attempts to ban the Communist Party led to a significant change in the Australia Labor Party in the 1950’s that changed the course of the Party for decades. The term “Reds under the Beds” refers to Communists‚ as a symbol of bloodshed by the working
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Matt Overstrom Brics and Mitsk Project China Objective This project introduces the Brics and Mitsk countries and integrates the concepts presented in weeks 1-4. It also provides a common foundation for future discussions. Guidelines Prepare a PowerPoint Presentation based upon a Brics and Mitsk Country: Brazil‚ Russia‚ India‚ China South Africa‚ Mexico‚ Indonesia‚ Turkey and South Korea. These countries have been identified as important emerging countries that are significant economic powers individually
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In 1949‚ Mao Zedong led the Peoples Revolution‚ which established a Communist State in China. Communism has now been introduced to Asia. In this period‚ after World War II‚ Communism was a popular ideology being introduced throughout the world. Vietnam was one of the many countries under the threat of Communism. At this time‚ Vietnam was a French Colony. As time went on tension started to come between the French and the Vietnamese people. As tension increased so did the fighting between the French
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reasons as well‚ both of their countries were suffering underneath a cruel dictator who put their ideals and themselves above the well being of their people. Communism appeared differently for each leader‚ Communism was already an ideal blooming in China due to their proximity to Russia‚ while Castro more or less brought Communism gradually to Cuba through his policy changes. Castro aimed to free Cuba from capitalist control‚ helping the economy‚ and create an honest administration. Zedong aimed to
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