Welcome everyone to the Brisbane ideas festival of 2014‚ I’m Frances Golding here to discuss the revolutionary emancipation of women in china under communist rule… Communism redefined China and the cultural normalities seen throughout its imperial period to represent a nation of gender amalgamation as opposed to discriminatory gender segregation (China.org.cn). This ideology established a concept on the basis that each person produced according to their ability and received according to their needs
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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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of these prominent subjects‚ being the inspiration for much of the propaganda in China since 1949. One of the numerous posters depicting this great chairman of the People’s Republic was collected in 1971‚ originally shown at the ‘Shaanxi Provincial Class Education Exhibition Hall’. The poster depicts‚ Mao standing ahead of the four great leaders of communism: Stalin‚ Lenin‚ Engels‚ and Marx. Behind them is the communist flag and crowds of people and the red Guards‚ cheering and proclaiming their love
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the symbol of the Little Red Book to demonstrate the chilling level of control indoctrination imposes onto the Chinese people during Mao’s rule. All throughout Maoist China‚ everyone studied the Little Red Book. It was a book that was filled with Mao’s quotations. The Little Red Book symbolizes the societal worship of Mao in China at the time. The Little Red Book is both a product of this worship and a symbol of it. Everyone was expected to know these quotations‚ as that was a trait of an ideal person
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tinted milk‚ which ended up killing at least 6 kids. Another example of bad thing going on in Ji-li’s life is when her teachers‚ who before were highly esteemed‚ can now no longer teach what they are supposed to. They can only teach what the communist party tells them to. This is similar to the story of Chinese dissident Tan Zuoren‚ who wrote and protested about an earthquake in 2008 that killed thousands of school children because of shoddy buildings not strong enough to stay up. And the last example
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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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the Communist Part in China. The Red Army was formed when the followers of Zedong were led into the mountains. It started as only a group of about 1000 men‚ but eventually turned into an army of 12‚000 because many peasants joined. The peasants joined the army because it gave them a sense of stability. They knew that Mao was a strong leader that fought for his people and that he ordered his army to not hurt the peasants‚ which was greatly appreciated. The Guomindang‚ who roamed around China freely
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fought from 1946 to 1949 by the Chinese Communist Party and the governing Chinese National Party or Kuomintang. The two parties began initially by working together during the Northern Expedition‚ which were a Kuomintang military campaign unifying communists and nationalists from 1926 to 1928. The death of the revolutionary republican leader of the Kuomintang‚ Sun Yat sen‚ however‚ caused power struggle between the two opposing parties. There were multiple factors that lead
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concerns about national security all played a part in the division of two powers that were at one stage closely aligned. These same factors defined China ’s response to this growing divide‚ and the way that it conducted its relations with the states of the East and South East Asian region. The Historical Chinese Position The Chinese description of China - Zhong guo - or Middle Kingdom‚ provides an excellent insight into the Chinese view of its position in the world. The traditional idea that Chinese
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created more problems than they solved in China.’ How far do you agree? (M/J 2009) China after the death of Mao Zedong was a sorry state of affairs. Communist had failed to bring prosperity to the country; instead‚ was poor and isolated from the rest of the world. The Cultural Revolution had also been a failure‚ and the youths sent down during the period came to be known as the ‘changed generation’. On top of that‚ infighting within the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) stagnated its decision-making and
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