Tiananmen Square Massacre is an event that took place in the summer of 1989 in Beijing‚ China. It is an event that forever will leave a rather haunting legacy on the Chinese culture. The Chinese citizens just wanted freedom‚ liberty‚ and justice‚ but with their communist government they knew they wouldn’t get anywhere without a fight. What many people don’t realize is that the massacre wasn’t just with Beijing but it was national movement with people from all over the country who stood behind the
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The concept of ‘panopticism’ was originally developed by Michael Foucault from his book Discipline and Punishment (1977) pp195-228‚ Foucault describe panopticon as “mechanism that coerces by means of observation”(pp:195)‚ at the time of writing his theory‚ there was a lot that was going on around Foucault such as the disband of the soviet union in china had led to a rethinking of socialism‚ changes in term of the nature of production as well as the industrialisation all of these led to a rethinking
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The article provides a translation of the six characters on the stone as “The Chinese Communist Party Collapses.” Presumably‚ these characters were an ancient prophecy about the Communist Party that had only now been revealed. The article then continues by explaining that after the discovery of the characters‚ the government‚ with its influence over the media‚ was able to get most images cropped to remove the word “collapse”‚ or to simply leave it out in any captions or descriptions of the image
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Jennifer Perez Assignment 4 Chapter 4 1. Zhou’s main goal was to lay foundations for Chinese dynastic and to justify his family’s dynasty the creation of another‚ he allegedly developed the idea of the Mandate of Heaven. This concept explains rightfully rule of China‚ a dynasty must have authorization from "Heaven‚" perceived not as place but as the god of the skies and ancestor of Chinese rulers. This man date empowered the ruler to reign as "Son of Heaven" but also required that he govern justly
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Perfection is often promised by world leaders‚ obviously it is never achieved. For example during the Chinese Civil War that brought Mao Zedong to power‚ he promised a new "perfect" China. It turns out that his "perfect" vision was murdering teachers‚ and low class citizens to "perfect" their population. The point being that‚ he corrupted this promise which was used to lure in dupes. The question "should we pursue perfection" was brought up‚ and to answer that I said we shouldn’t. There will never
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How accurate is it to say that Mao Zedong’s agricultural policies from 1949 were the most important reason for the famine of 1959–62? In October 1949‚ the People’s Republic of China (PRC) was established and led by Mao Zedong. China’s new communist leaders turned their backs on China’s traditional output (based on individual and small scale household production) economy and set out to create a massive socialist industrial government inspired by the Soviet Union. This idea introduced a model‚
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I selected this article because it explains how China uses a group of students as a scapegoat‚ similar to how Napoleon uses Snowball as a scapegoat. I thought it was interesting how Animal Farm and this article compare and contrast. This article describes how Hong Kong‚ a former British colony was returned to Chinese control in 1997 and “placed under a semi-autonomous administration” that many consider to inreality be under Beijing’s control. The author states that “Since the handover‚ China has
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Annotated Bibliography Baum‚ Richard. China In Ferment Perspective On The Cultural Revolution. 1st ed. Englewood Cliffs‚ New Jersey: Prentice Hall‚ Inc.‚ 1971. 67-77. Print. Baum and the other authors present in this chapter a deep description of the Chinese revolution ideologies. At hand‚ they do that using for in their thesis the amazing title: “Ideology Redivivus.” Because this designation is a description of the ideas from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)‚ that during the fall and winter
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When you think of Communism‚ what country is the first to pop into your head? When I asked myself this‚ I immediately thought of The Soviet Union‚ however‚ this is not the only state that has under gone this transition of power. Many states governments that have undergone the communist regime have failed‚ however‚ there is a state that is still considered communist today‚ China. Thus‚ the question I am going to ask is how does communism differ in China today and the former Soviet Union through structure
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Red Scarf Girl By: Ji Li Jiang Red Scarf Girl is a story that deals with the courage of a girl and her family when they are struggling to survive during China’s Cultural Revolution in 1966. Ji Li Jiang‚ the author‚ tells her story about the hardships that herself‚ family and friends went through. Also the lessons that they learned. Chairman Mao Ze-Dong‚ China’s leader launched the Cultural Revolution that was intended to "break with the old and establish the new." This brought hardships
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