to reach for it risks possibly losing his life because it is unattainable. Gang was drafted in 1962 fighting to support Mao Zedong’s Great Proletarion Cultural Revolution‚ and this poem was written several years after he participated in the Revolution. The Cultural Revolution was designed by Mao to destroy the culture of pre-Communist China. The Red Guard groups led by Mao and his wife Jiang Qing were the ones responsible for the destruction of anything historically cultural in China. With that
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Cultural Revolution. Chang herself marched‚ worked‚ and breathed for Mao until doubt crept in over the excesses of his policies and purges. Born just a few decades apart‚ their lives overlap with the end of the warlords’ regime and overthrow of the Japanese occupation‚ violent struggles between the Kuomintang and the Communists to carve up China‚ and‚ most poignant for the author‚ the vicious cycle of purges orchestrated by Chairman Mao that discredited and crushed millions of people‚ including her parents
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women were treated in unequal way. Men controlled the whole society but women are treated as objects. Marriage was one of the most important events in people’s life. Because of the Confucian values‚ people did not have right to control their marriage. Mao also experienced the old values of China. When he was young‚ he was arranged a marriage with a young woman but he
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do something that normal can not do. They inspire masses‚ and they also influence people fallow them. In China‚ there are such words about that no chair Mao‚ no The People’s Republic of China. Chair Mao is actually a hero in each Chinese mind. When the civil war broken out in 1945‚ The Communist Party was always at a big disadvantage. However‚ Mao never displayed weakness; he leaded The Communist Party and masses to persist in battling until 1949. During four years war‚ He made many wise decisions
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with international sanctions‚ during the 1950s‚ allowing him to increase his market to China and growth. His fortune however came also in great part by the real estate acquisition of land from Hong Kong and buildings erected and sold. By the 1960s‚ Mao was in power and with his communist vision‚ started the Cultural Revolution that made it difficult from businesses to grow. In the 1970s‚ Li with the connection and help of the HSBC chairman and support‚ started to have more visibility and opportunities
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peasant’s family‚ my background was supposed to be ’clear’. We all enjoyed having no classes and degrading the teachers. ’The teacher takes the student as the enemy and uses examinations as weapons to attack the student’ - the fact that it was Chairman Mao who had said this meant a great deal. In
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This man was an army for Chairman Mao’s Revolution‚ named Comrade Li. Mao wanted him to stay at Ling’s apartment so he could convince more people to be part of the Mao revolution. While Comrade Li stays at Ling’s house‚ he befriends Ling and tries to persuade her into being a member of Mao’s revolution. Comrade Li makes her origami in return of ingredients for cooking
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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 inner journey as Li leaves his small village and dances for some of the most exceptional ballet companies in the world
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Mao’s Last Dancer is set in the China during the Cultural Revolution (1966 – 1976) where under Mao Ze Dong’s rule; everyone in china was indoctrinated believing that Mao was the saviour to China. Li’s village suffered through harsh poverty and an era of strict adherence to regulations as he distinctively describes how Mao’s propaganda and communistic rule had terrorised his teenage
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1970. (17) By this time Chairman Mao had encouraged the youth to push his ideology‚ particularly the Red Guard movement a proud nationalist group of young men and women from the urbanized areas of China who acted on his ambiguous sentiments. The specific call for the youth was the momentum for detachment of urban areas and the new movement towards the countryside‚ “The countryside is a vast world where much can be accomplished.” (18) Not knowing who Chairman Mao is almost impossible due to the amount
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