Leah learns about the traditional Chinese village. Describe its appearance and Jade and Grandfather’s house. (pages 26-27‚ 30-31‚ 38) 8. Leah begins to learn about the political history and events in China. What does she learn about life under Mao and Deng? What is Grandfather’s attitude to the protesters and why? (pages 37-38) 9. Joan and Leah seem to have grown apart since her father’s death. Leah’s thought give us flashbacks to their earlier‚ happier life together when Leah’s dad was alive. What does
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The political and ideological background of the Golden Shield Project is considered to be one of Deng Xiaoping’s favorite sayings in the early 1980s: "If you open the window for fresh air‚ you have to expect some flies to blow in." (Chinese: 打开窗户，新鲜空气和苍蝇就会一起进来。; pinyin: Dǎkāi chuānghù‚ xīnxiān kōngqì hé cāngyíng jiù huì yīqǐ jìnlái.[nb 1]) The saying is related to a period of the economic reform of China that became known as the "socialist market economy". Superseding the political ideologies of
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The Cultural Revolution as an Unintended Result of Administrative Policies Because the Cultural Revolution wounded so many patriotic Chinese‚ the question of its cause haunts current politics. Its violence - including widespread physical attacks against intellectuals and local leaders - was its most unusual aspect‚ the thing that calls for explanation‚ the experience that tends to overwhelm other memories of 1966-1968 in many Chinese minds. The Cultural Revolution obviously tapped frightening
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Mao Zedong’s ideas varied between flexible pragmatism and utopian visions‚ exemplified in the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. As Professor Nutter says‚ Mao established a regime that was based upon his own personality. Ruthless and ambitious‚ Mao turned China into a world military power and created a cult of personality‚ forcing the distribution of his image and his "Little Red Book" (a collection of political maxims) upon the Chinese people. As far as the world was concerned for
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My favorite leader –Zhou Enlai Abstract As is known to us all‚ Zhou Enlai‚ as a communist party member‚ the first premier and foreign minister of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)‚ has a high reputation from home and abroad. This paper includes four parts in total. It starts with the brief introduction to Zhou Enlai and then pays more attention to the second part about his contributions. Following is the third part about evaluations from domestic and international. The last part comes to the
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“The first years of the People’s Republic of China under the CCP Rule 1949-1962” Question 1: “The changes the CCP initiated in the period 1949 to 1958 were of benefit to the peasants and to China” Between 1949 and 1958‚ Chairman Mao Zedong implemented large scale changes to China in hopes of rapidly transforming the country from an agrarian economy into a modern communist society. Inevitably‚ the changes that Mao implemented in this period of time had a significant impact on both China and
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The Red Guards Beginning in 1966 until 1976 when Mao Tse Tung died‚ he launched The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. Chairman of the Communist Party Mao Zedong‚ wanted his Red Guards to take over the other Chinese government authorities. Mao wanted to regain power within the Communist Party. The Red Guards were mainly made up of young adults and children. They were all followers of Mao’s ideas. The Red Guard ’s main goal was to get rid of everything that had to do with the old culture in
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“The Red Scarf Girl” “Many friends have asked me why‚ after all I went through‚ I did not hate Chairman Mao and the Cultural Revolution in those years. The answer is simple: we were all brainwashed.”p.276 The book “The Red Scarf Girl” is a memoir written by author Ji Li Jiang recounting what it was like to grow up during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution‚ taking place in China from 1965 to 1968. During this time‚ a political leader named Mao Zedong convinced the people of China that the
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“Mao Zedong: Man‚ not God” by Quan Yanchi was first published in 1992‚ book is translated to English from Chinese by Wang Wenjiong and edited by Gale Hadfield. The book is based on the recollections of Li Yinqiao‚ Mao’s bodyguard for many years. Highlighting the book are photographs of Mao with his relatives and Li‚ published for the first time. This book can help anyone who is new to China or know just a little about this country to get more familiar with who Mao for Chinese is. They love him
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Prologue The Cultural Revolution began quietly. On November 11‚ 1965‚ a Shanghai daily newspaper published a review of a four-year old play‚ Hai Jui Dismissed From Office. The review stated that the play ’s author‚ Peking Deputy Mayor Wu Han‚ had written an anti-socialist document calling for the destruction of socialism in China. That same day‚ Red Flag published an attack on the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and revisionism within the CCP. The article charged that some leading CCP members
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