Pros and cons of the Great Leap Forward - Oliver R “The Great Leap Forward was a push by Mao Ze Dong to change China from a predominantly agrarian (farming) society to a modern‚ industrial society in just five years.”1 Mao’s aim was to up Chinas crop output.2 The idea was that if everyone worked these long hours for all these years in both farming and steel that China would catch up to countries such as America and England. Unfortunately for Mao and China all the steel that the people produced
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"Son of the Revolution" Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro’s "Son of the Revolution" is a comprehensive story of Liang Heng’s life on growing up during the chaotic times of the Chinese revolution. The purpose of this novel was to depict the horrors and hardships of life during the revolution period in china during Mao Zedong’s reign. In the beginning of the book‚ the author portrays that news and ideologies always stated that the government was working for the good of the people of the country. However
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Mao’s policies improved China at first‚ but eventually went through a course of damage. During the first five year plan‚ the change was successful for China’s industry and agriculture. For China’s agriculture‚ it was improved by encouraging smaller co-operatives to merge together to form a larger co-operative‚ they pooled their land together to make bigger and more efficient farms. So that heavy industry (road and railway construction‚ steel production‚ etc) in China would be modernized‚ and
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Title: Balzac and the Little Chinese seamstress author: Dai SijieOriginally published in France by Gallimard‚ 2000English translation publisher: Alfred A. KnopfCopyright: September 11‚ 2001Hardcover: 208 pagesA novelBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress is a cogent novel that depicts the impact of the Chinese Cultural Revolution‚ proves the magic of storytelling‚ compares ancient and modern‚ and tells a romantic love story between a mountain girl and two city youths. Two boys are sent to a mountain
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The political thought of Mao Yse-tung offers a attractive and confident analysis of Mao’s intellectual journey‚ distinguishing the positive value of the hands-on and anti-bureaucratic boldness of his thought and of his struggles to link Marxism with Chinese reality. Overview of the Book: This book is a very informatieve one and is very reader friendly. In this book the ideas of Mao related to Marxism are discussed but also the different stages of his thought pattern and ideas are also discussed
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Good and evil. These are two words that everybody has heard. One question that can arise from these two words is whether humans are essentially good or evil. The question of human nature has been a topic that even the greatest philosophers have struggled with. Even the best people still have evil thoughts which demonstrate that evil exists in all of us‚ however much that the trait is suppressed. Evil is not a bold line straight down the middle of what is right and this is why it is my opinion that
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The idea of disciplined pluralism is the difference between centralized and decentralized decision-making as it pertains to the economy (i.e. the government). To put in another way‚ communist and socialist country’s economies exist under monoism where the government dictates the terms and conditions of markets. In United States and other market economies‚ the market largely determines what is good for the market by exploring possibilities and cultivating innovation with profit motive. This may
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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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Saboteur The short story "Saboteur"‚ written by Ha Jin exposes a social problem of China: the consequence of Culture Revolution on people’s life. How the faithful educated scholar becomes a merciless assassin. Who is the real Saboteur‚ Mr. Chiu or policeman? Through the author’s skillful description‚ we are able to understand the theme of the story is revenge. And “Saboteur” is irony. The setting of a story has a ponderous influence on our perception as it often justifies a character’s behavior
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The Great Leap forward failed‚ therefore Mao was demoted and the moderates took control because Mao was still too popular to resign. One of the political consequences was that Mao wanted to reassert himself and regain power in China after he was demoted because of the failure of the Great Leap Forward. Mao had the gained the support of Lin Biao and the PLA therefore launched the Cultural Revolution. Mao wanted to get rid of anti communist ideas and opposition that would pose a threat to his leadership
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