China’s chairman‚ Chairman Mao‚ decided to have a revolution to make one culture to make one strong country. Jiang Ji-li was among one of the many children during the Cultural Revolution. Jiang Ji-li’s story is a true story about how horrible the Cultural Revolution was to some higher-class people in China. 31 years later when she looked back on this horrible incident she realized that the people of Chairman Mao where brainwashed. To the people of China‚ Chairman Mao was basically like god. Jiang
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instead the area was filled with offices for imperial ministries. These were badly damaged during the Boxer Rebellion and the area was cleared to produce the beginning of 天*门 Square. Near the centre of today’s square‚ close to the site of the Mao Zedong Mausoleum‚ once stood one of the most important gates of Beijing. This gate was known as the "Great Ming Gate" (???) during the Ming Dynasty‚ "Great Qing Gate" (???) during the Qing Dynasty‚ and "Gate of China" (???) during the Republic of China
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born in 1904 and after making his way through the ranks of the communist party‚ he became the leader of China in 1978. In 1978 Hua Guofeng presented the 10 year plan which was later used under the rule of Deng Xiaoping. After 28 years of life under Mao‚ the chinese citizens were in desperate need of change and under the rule of Deng Xiaoping China was able to modernize its economy and catch up with the rest of the western world. Deng Xiaoping ended collective farming in China and improved the agricultural
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China’s Market Economy in the Long Run For the majority of the last 2000 years Asia has been at the dominance of the world development in terms of GDP. China + Japan at the lead have accounted for roughly 25 to 35 percent of the world GDP until the late 1800s when US and UK combined for the lead in the share of GDP. China had become the worlds poorest country and Japan had been militarily governed while the rest of Asia was fighting amongst the Cold War. Until of late (peaking in 1950) the western
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also extremely inspirational and inscribed in first person‚ therefore this allows the reader to see the personal journey of Li. I believe this text also relates to Shakespeare’s play ‘The Tempest’ in the way Li has to act like a slave to the Communist Mao. This is similar to the enslavement of the characters Caliban and Ariel. The main physical journey represented in the text is how dancing shaped and became Li’s life. When he was chosen to be in Madame Mao’s ballet academy‚ he had no desire to be
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China has been known by this name even after the 1911 Revolution which abolished the feudal monarchy and gave birth to the Republic of China. Further again in 1949‚ after a long struggle‚ the Chinese communist party under the leadership of chairman Mao Zedong led the Chinese people of all nationalities to over throw the rule of imperialism‚ feudalism‚ and capitalism‚ gaining victory for the new democratic revolution and establishing the “People’s Republic of China”. From then Chinese people took control
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line such as the Red Guard‚ while others distanced themselves from the authorities or make local officials a part of their schemes. Together‚ the personal stories told in this collection open a window onto what life is really like for both the Mao and post-Mao generations of
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Although Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Though (MLM) still serves as the ideology which the People’s Republic of China (PRC) adhere to‚ these socialist doctrines no longer serve inspirational purposes to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and are viewed as an “ideological vacuum.” China’s attempt to establish a rapid growing economy to support the authority of the Communist regime has contradicted the Communist ideology and has thus created a reverse effect. It is certain that Chinese citizens have grown
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Flamingo Publishers‚ 1992‚ Chapter 7 Wild Swans is a personal account of three generations of women in China. In this chapter Jung Chang records the experience of her mother on the Long March across China to spread the ideas of the communist leader‚ Mao Zedong. After traveling from Jinzhou to Tianjin by train they had to continue their journey on foot. The route was fraught with danger as there were bandits and units of retreating Kuomintang soldiers ready to attack the marchers. They ‘had to walk long
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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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