Leah learns about the traditional Chinese village. Describe its appearance and Jade and Grandfather’s house. (pages 26-27‚ 30-31‚ 38) 8. Leah begins to learn about the political history and events in China. What does she learn about life under Mao and Deng? What is Grandfather’s attitude to the protesters and why? (pages 37-38) 9. Joan and Leah seem to have grown apart since her father’s death. Leah’s thought give us flashbacks to their earlier‚ happier life together when Leah’s dad was alive. What does
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persecuted and forced to stop working. Some 30‚000‚000 victims were wiped clean from historical records after being shot in the back of the head(Frodsham 145). Mao claimed that many leaders such as China ’s head of state‚ Liu Shaoqi‚ and others including Deng Xiaopeng were corrupt "capitalists" who opposed socialism and must therefore be thrown out of power. In schools‚ factories‚ and government agencies‚ those who were a threat to party power were criticized and persecuted. Similarly‚ in _1984_‚ Goldstein
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The political and ideological background of the Golden Shield Project is considered to be one of Deng Xiaoping’s favorite sayings in the early 1980s: "If you open the window for fresh air‚ you have to expect some flies to blow in." (Chinese: 打开窗户，新鲜空气和苍蝇就会一起进来。; pinyin: Dǎkāi chuānghù‚ xīnxiān kōngqì hé cāngyíng jiù huì yīqǐ jìnlái.[nb 1]) The saying is related to a period of the economic reform of China that became known as the "socialist market economy". Superseding the political ideologies of
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A. Plan of the investigation The focus of the study is on the event of the Tiananmen Square Massacre and how the Chinese Communist Party government shocked the world. Moreover‚ the study focuses on the aftermaths and the international effects like how the United States decided how to deal with this violent act or how this event possibly encouraged protestors to fight against their corrupt government. This research paper will evaluate the extent of how international countries were affected
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The Cultural Revolution as an Unintended Result of Administrative Policies Because the Cultural Revolution wounded so many patriotic Chinese‚ the question of its cause haunts current politics. Its violence - including widespread physical attacks against intellectuals and local leaders - was its most unusual aspect‚ the thing that calls for explanation‚ the experience that tends to overwhelm other memories of 1966-1968 in many Chinese minds. The Cultural Revolution obviously tapped frightening
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Evaluation: The broadest and probably the most eternal face of Mao Tse-Tung’s contribution to the Chinese revolution was only his thought. Stuart Schram’s book observes the unfolding of Mao’s ideas‚ and in doing so sheds new light on other facets of Mao Tse-Tung’s
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Mao Zedong’s ideas varied between flexible pragmatism and utopian visions‚ exemplified in the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. As Professor Nutter says‚ Mao established a regime that was based upon his own personality. Ruthless and ambitious‚ Mao turned China into a world military power and created a cult of personality‚ forcing the distribution of his image and his "Little Red Book" (a collection of political maxims) upon the Chinese people. As far as the world was concerned for
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“The first years of the People’s Republic of China under the CCP Rule 1949-1962” Question 1: “The changes the CCP initiated in the period 1949 to 1958 were of benefit to the peasants and to China” Between 1949 and 1958‚ Chairman Mao Zedong implemented large scale changes to China in hopes of rapidly transforming the country from an agrarian economy into a modern communist society. Inevitably‚ the changes that Mao implemented in this period of time had a significant impact on both China and
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The Red Guards Beginning in 1966 until 1976 when Mao Tse Tung died‚ he launched The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Chairman of the Communist Party Mao Zedong‚ wanted his Red Guards to take over the other Chinese government authorities. Mao wanted to regain power within the Communist Party. The Red Guards were mainly made up of young adults and children. They were all followers of Mao’s ideas. The Red Guard ’s main goal was to get rid of everything that had to do with the old culture in
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“The Red Scarf Girl” “Many friends have asked me why‚ after all I went through‚ I did not hate Chairman Mao and the Cultural Revolution in those years. The answer is simple: we were all brainwashed.”p.276 The book “The Red Scarf Girl” is a memoir written by author Ji Li Jiang recounting what it was like to grow up during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution‚ taking place in China from 1965 to 1968. During this time‚ a political leader named Mao Zedong convinced the people of China that the
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