enthusiastic?" The reply was general‚ all about personality: "I want to exercise myself. I want to collect experience. Supporting the Great Cultural Revolution is a great chance for us young people to develop ourselves.’ This early radicalism combined‚ as Mao did‚ an interest in personal exercise with a crusading‚ war-loving spirit. As the Huguenot enthusiast de Mournay put it‚ "Peace is a great evil‚ war is a great good. . . . Peace is proper to the miscreant; but war‚ to the true believer. Contrasts between
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HK and Mainland Chinese Generation Changes Introduction: Since Hong Kong return to China‚ there always have some comparison between Hong Kong and Mainland China. In this essay‚ I would like to talk about the generation changes in both Hong Kong and Mainland China and make the comparison. HK: (1976~1990) Historical background: The fourth generation of Hong Kongers is the children of the second generation‚ they live in plenty and unlikely to worry about their conditions. Growth environment
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NATIONALISM AND POLITICAL IDENTITIES IN ASIA‚ AFRICA‚ AND LATIN AMERICA During the 1920s and 1930s‚ after the Great War and during the Great Depression‚ intellectuals and political activists in Asia‚ Africa‚ and Latin America challenged the ideological and economic underpinnings of European imperialism and neo-colonialism‚ as nationalist and anti-imperialist movements gained strength on each of these continents. * In Asia‚ Japan’s militarist leaders sought to build national strength through
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protested‚ reflecting the broad dissatisfaction of China’s working population with the social results of the reform decade. Ten years previous to the Tiananmen Square protests‚ Mao Zedong died and the period of Maoism ended. Mao was the leader of China‚ who‚ according to Deng Xiaoping‚ was “seven parts right and three parts wrong”. Mao introduced several policies that sent China’s economy down the drain‚ and Deng Xiaoping was the man who finally replaced him. He became the Paramount Leader (a term used
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Communist China Sun Yixian(1866-1925) Sun Yixian was born into a farm family in 1866. He started school at age 10‚ and at age 13 he moved to Hawaii where he completed his schooling. While in Hawaii he received the citizenship of America‚ and he liked Abrahams idea of republicanism. In china he was known as The Father Of China. He also learned Christianity. In 1892 he earned his medical licenses‚ And finally in 1911 he was elected as the first provisional president. Sun Yixian
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law there was still limitations to these benefits as Mao Zedong and his concubines undermined all the laws and rights women were given. In terms of women benefiting‚ the rights granted to women during the 1950’s were a great success in social reforms compared to the agricultural reforms. Before 1949‚ women were sold as concubines‚ they fell into prostitution‚ had arranged marriages and little could be done about divorce. However in 1950 Mao introduced the marriage law which banned these arranged
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China Early offers from the west - The west wanted to trade with china but they rejected it. They had all the stuff they needed and didn’t need any outside help Self-Reliance - China thought they didn’t need any help from the outside Trading limitations - China was self-reliant‚ so it didn’t tend to trade with other countries. But then again the European countries wanted to trade with them. They set limits on which they would trade with. Opium/Opium war of 1839 - Opium was the cash crop in China
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Communism in China Chinese Revolution In 1949 the communist leader Mao Zedong decided upon the creation of the People’s Republic of China or PRC‚ which then resulted in the end of a full scale civil war between Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Party. This war happened immediately after WWII. They stormed through China‚ over running cities and taking power from warlords. In the middle of the Chinese unrest the Japanese attacked Manchuria‚ the Government of the Republic of
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the Chinese Communist Party. Two parties developed in the 1920s‚ the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang. The Kuomintang - Communists United Front had formed first and then divided into the two separate units. Mao had encouraged peasant activities against landlords‚ and this had hastened the split. The Kuomintang was allied with the warlords and was thus stronger militarily than the Chinese Communist Party‚ leaving the Chinese Communist Party struggling
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WESTERN GAZE FINAL DRAFT 2 HOW FAR HAS THE WEST INFLUENCED THE CONTEMPORY CHINESE ARTISTS Wang Qingsong‚ Zeng Fanzhi‚ Shi Xinning‚ and Zhang Xiaogang? “Why do I say China has no contempory Art? Because none of China’s C art comes from China’s history or culture. It just follows the Western conception of what Chinese contempory art should be like” Lu Lib PART 1: INTRODUCTION I am interested in contemporary art in China because I live in Hong Kong‚ and have witnessed huge changes in China
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