Hua Guofeng Essays

The Chinese Cultural Revolution happened between 1966-1976 with the purpose of preserving the traditional Communist ideology commenced by Mao Zedong, the Chairman of the Communist Party. The Cultural Revolution was a failure because it did not address the power imbalances and widespread grievances well enough.The main contribution of The Cultural Revolution at the Margins is that it shows how messy and contingent events were in 1966 and 1967. Global capital flows toward China today because of the

After reading Tan’s novels, readers has to come to the conclusion that, in order to achieve a balance between- the world conditions, one cannot only be supportive to the New American ways and rejects the Old Chinese ways. The daughter’s initially could not accept their Chinese tradition after understanding their cultural reconciliation they realize that both the conditions are very important for establishing their life. Similarly, in case of husband and wife relationship, Tan brings out the patriarchal

Yellow Earth is a Chinese movie directed by Chen Kai-ge in 1984. The movie’s cinematography is by Zhang Yimou. The movie was filmed when the Guomingdang and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had temporarily joined forces to fight against Japanese invaders. The protagonist, Gu Qing, is a CCP soldier who travels to a poor, rural village in Shanbei. His task is to collect local folk songs so that they can be rewritten with communist lyrics. Gu Qing stays with a peasant widower, Da Shu, and his two children

During the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) art completely changed in style and purpose. More specifically when the Communist Party took over the minds and hearts of China in 1949, propaganda seen in art was used to influence them and further make Mao Zedong an icon and hero. This movement changed the art of China into a modernized art, an art that was no longer showing the spirit of the old China but a new spirit that sparked through Mao Zedong's teachings. Through the elimination of traditional-style

In the years between 1800 BCE to 1750 BCE Hammurabi ruled Mesopotamia from the city of Babylon. Hammurabi is most known for his code. The code of Hammurabi was established to maintain order and justice through Mesopotamia. Order and Justice inevitably constructed and established the city states of Mesopotamia to thrive. This code put the people of the social hierarchy in their place to fulfill their duties. As stated by Hammurabi himself “they… named me, Hammurabi, the exalted prince, the worshiper

Jerry Li Mr. Holmes Honors 10th LA 02/06/2017 Comparing The Iranian Cultural Revolution to the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution From 1950 to about 1990, the Iranian Cultural Revolution began to take place. Two thousand miles away, another revolution, the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of China, was also beginning. These two revolutions were extremely similar in certain aspects, but even though these revolutions were only a few thousand miles away, they also had many differences. In the

Asian American Cathy Song drew closer to her Korean-Chinese ancestry, and was able to describe in a clear image of the two women she represent, one being the industrial American women and the other one being the Chinese caretaker. Cathy Song was born and raised in Hawaii making her an American by birth right. This fact did not keep her from engulfing her Korean-Chinese heritage. In the poem “Lost Sister”, Song isolates a young girl who struggles to find who she truly is in China, because of all the

Jakob Rosdol Mrs. Schroeder English IV Honors December 13, 2017 Cowardice and Bravery Cowardice and bravery; two emotions greatly explored in Beowulf, especially towards the end. Throughout Beowulf, the text makes a point to prove Beowulf the best of all men on Earth at the time. There exists no greater force for good and all holiness than Beowulf of the Geats. Because Beowulf exists as a shining light of all things Holy, he, by definition, takes up the best qualities of mankind and exhibits them

"In recent years Chinese college students have been rebellious against all sorts of authority, the favorite word among the youth in China is No."(Bernstein, The New York Times). The Tiananmen Square Protest in 1989 campaigned for a peaceful transition from Communism to Democracy. Although the protest itself was non-violent, the government imposed terror to suppress the violence. The bloodshed that resulted from the tanks and soldiers drew foreign attentions. Thus, the Tiananmen Square has destructed

Deng's elevation as China's new central figure meant that the historical and ideological questions around Mao Zedong had to be addressed properly. Deng’s reforms were incompatible with Mao's hard-line "class struggle" policies and mass public campaigns. In 1982 the Central Committee of the Communist Party released a document entitled On the Various Historical Issues since the Founding of the People's Republic of China. Mao retained his status as a "great Marxist, proletarian revolutionary, militarist

Any outspoken person of Mao was attacked. The Cultural revolution worked. After Mao Zedong’s death and Hua Guofeng, essentially a Mao fanboy, failed as his successor, Deng Xiaoping took over control of China and basically saved the country. Deng Xiaoping started to undo some of Mao’s policies and began to open up the country. Xiaoping wanted to shift away from

After the civil war and the establishment of People’s Republic of China and Mao Zedong assuming power in 1949, poor China’s new government planners realized the need of socioeconomic development. As socialists, they decided to copy the successful socialist economic model of the Soviet Union which is their communist political resort. This socioeconomic development relied on: the “command economy” that mainly depended on the state’s governance and control over the resources allocation, the ownership