Xu Gang’s "Red Azalea on the Cliff" This is a story of a man looking upon a beautiful red flower growing on the side of a cliff. Because it is so high above his reach‚ its beauty is enough to make his "heart shudder with fear." Although it is a magnificent flower‚ any man trying to reach for it risks possibly losing his life because it is unattainable. Gang was drafted in 1962 fighting to support Mao Zedong’s Great Proletarion Cultural Revolution‚ and this poem was written several years after
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Blood Red Sunset By: Ma Bo This memoir of Ma Bo’s sent shock waves throughout China when it was published and was even first banned by the Communist Government. This passionate story paints a clear picture for what the Great Chinese Cultural Revolution was really like. Many Chinese living today can attest to similar if not identical ordeals as expressed in Ma Bo’s story. The toils of being a young Red Guard in inner China were experienced by many if not millions. The horrors and atrocities
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Communist China uses propaganda and force to hide the truth from the public‚ as well as controlling them in a sense. Ha Jin writes Waiting and in this book he comments and portrays communist China in great detail. Waiting’s main character‚ Lin Kong‚ is commonly criticized as indecisive and unable to love. In an interview published in Asia Week in 1999‚ Ha Jin comments on Lin’s inability to love: allegorically…sum up a sort of internal psychological damage to the Chinese… the Revolution was to
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Event in the Novel (Describe the event and provide context surrounding the event) | What type of journey is highlighted in this event? (Physical‚ inner or both) | What forces initiated the journey at this stage of the novel? (provide an explanation and evidence for your point) | What were the challenges and obstacles faced on the journey? (provide an explanation and evidence for your point) | Evaluate the consequences of this event on Li’s journey overall.(provide an explanation and evidence for
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History of my Family I was born in a family where my grandparents and parents are all the knowledgeable persons because all of them had the chances to go to colleges. Therefore‚ when I was a child‚ they always told me that the knowledge will change people’s lives to a better level. Since the education in China is not supported by the government‚ so people have to pay children’s education by themselves. Today‚ as I grew up and I am going to graduate with my degree‚ I thank my family for their love
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I enjoyed reading Chairman Mao is a Rotten Egg because it shows the relationship between parents and children and parents and the government under Mao Tse-tung. The mother in the story was very concerned with what she thought her child said because it had potential to jeopardize her relationship or right standing with the government. If her child‚ Ching-Ching‚ was a counterrevolutionary‚ there was a possibility that he would have been killed or at the least had his statement on record for the rest
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Economy of China China’s economic growth has no historical precedent and it is often described by analysts as one of the greatest economic success stories in modern times‚ changing really quickly from one of the poorest countries in the world‚ at the end of the 70’s‚ to the second largest economy in the world‚ and according to predictions it could become the largest within the next five years or so. Actually‚ in the Premodern Era‚ China was one of the worlds’ economic and technological
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Jealousy generates progress Neg. 1st speaker Good afternoon. History is the best proof of all the atrocities caused by jealousy. The Bible tells of the first murder in the world. Cain was jealous because God favoured his brother Abel‚ and he murdered Abel. He was thus condemned to a life of suffering. Jealousy led to his sibling rivalry‚ broken family and miserable life. Moving on to Ancient Greece‚ Greek states were jealous of Athens’s great achievements in literature and art‚ and started
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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution or the Cultural Revolution (1966 -1976) was one of the most dramatic and bleakest periods in the history of the People’s Republic of China. The roots of the Cultural Revolution date back to the late 1950s to the early 1960s when the Great Leap Forward ended in catastrophe. The leader‚ Mao Zedong lost a lot of his influence among his revolutionary comrades‚ supporters and eventually‚ he was removed from actual powers by the members of the party. During his
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China is one of the world’s oldest standing civilizations to date. Over the course of centuries the country has adapted and changed according to the times‚ and so has the the nation’s literature. Chinese literature dates all the way back to 21 B.C.E‚ and during that time period chinese literature centered around confucianism and folklore. Literature took a sporadic toll when Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China came to power. Before the rise of the communist party‚ China was under the rule
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