... in the Five-Year Plan, aimed at developing economic growth and land reform (Cairns). In effort to ameliorate the land ownership, the government murdered millions of landlords in effort to redistribute farmland for the peasants control. Killing millions is no justification for growing a country. ... action, Mao implemented the Anti-Rightist Movement (Xiang). This action effectively suppressed all opposition when he implemented the communes. Mao and his government essentially controlled every aspect of a citizen's life, limiting their potential. Even after all the work Mao did with the Gr...

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... book Son of the Revolution, by Liang Heng. This book is an autobiography, and really gave a much better description of the hardships faced by the Chinese people during the rise of Communism, the Cultural Revolution, and during Post Cultural Revolution times. It was one thing to hear in class how, " ... . In the movie we watched in class, it was easy to see that the Red Guard were a group of lackies working for the Chinese government. They carried out the wishes of their commanders. Some times it was to gather scraps of iron, sometimes it was to gather things from ... on walls, finding su...

• Word Count: 1902
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... Chiang Kaishek (A nationalist leader and head of the Kuomintang), with American naval assistance, took over the cities. The Nationalist government of China was the "legitimate" government, recognized by the Big Three powers and sanctified by the United Nations. Mao and the Communists were not recognized by the ... United Nations (Even today communist China is not allowed to participate in the UN but democratic Taiwan is). The Chinese Communists moved ... Again, people were saying the difficulties between the Kuomintang and the Communists could be worked out. The Chiang government brou...

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... to the duplicity that controlled Mao's personality, the monkey and tiger, Terrill calls it. Resembling a yin and yang that is deeply embedded in Chinese thought. This balance which is professed in one of his maxims " walk on two legs ," born enlightenment through the gun. Terrill aims to ... Marx's and Communism. There he met other intellectuals of radical communist thought who helped form the Chinese Communist Party. On May 4, 1918 there was a demonstration of people against the western form of government, and for the new radical Marxist Communism. Later referred to as the May fourth in...

• Word Count: 1967
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The Dragons Village In Yuan-tsung Chen's novel, The Dragons Village, Chen elaborates on the events that occurred during the years of the Chinese Communist Revolution. The "Land Reform" and the distribution of the land brought hope to millions of Chinese peasants that have been fighting poverty and feudalism. Ling-Ling, the narrator of the novel is a seventeen- year old girl who has ... was involved. The American army was already in the North Korea and getting closer to the Chinese Border. Many Chinese were afraid that the radicals would take over and tighten business controls. Like Ling-Ling...

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... ). A State Planning Commission was formed which would direct industrial progress. The State Council was formed in 1954 and would become the main governing body of China. Mao successfully reorganized the Chinese government to insure that the quotas of the First Five Year Plan would be met. With this economic plan Mao was able to effectively turn a feudalistic society into a world power within ... Stanford University. Gurley takes the time to dictate China's economic situation and how Mao tried to solve it. He goes into detail about the "five developments" that Mao initiated: the governmen...

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... had many dreams for India, and though his dream of unity was not fulfilled, he brought India freedom, his main goal. Mao Zedong was a Chinese communist who wanted nothing more than to convert China to communism, then to rule the country himself. He began a nationalist movement to spread communism throughout ... fought the nationalist leaders of China, Sun-yet Sen and Jieng Jieshi, who were not in favor of a communist government and economy. It began with the idea of Marxism, a form of government which created a classless society in which all people shared equal amounts of the wealth and p...

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... Cultural Revolution took place from 1945 to 1976 under Mao Tse Tung's communist dictatorship. During this time, everyone had to follow communist principles or they became an enemy of the government. Everyone had to honor Mao Tse Tung's thoughts and had to think as he wished to. Children were often manipulated to work in favor of the communist revolution. In the ... story Red Azalea, by Anchee Min, a Chinese girl was influenced to follow the doctrines and to expose this ideology to others to the point of betraying her teacher. Excellent introduction! Hindu people refused to send their ch...

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... turning back."" Ten days after the end of World War II, Birch, who attained the rank of captain in the United States military, was taken as a prisoner of war by Chinese Communists. According to an autopsy, Birch had been shot in the leg, then hogtied. He was then shot in the back of his head. His Communist murderers proceeded to defile ... have to attack; it will fall like overripe fruit in our hands- (10-11). The Communists, he said, began using Sputnik to begin their propaganda. This in turn, would increase government spending on missiles, which would create higher taxes, ending in an...

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... . The victim, I mean reader, pushes on to learn of violent ways of the Red Guards, the two-faced nature of the revolutionaries, and the hateful actions of Mao's super-Communistic government. By all means, I really do believe that I should feel more sympathetic towards Ji-Li in respect of the trials and tribulations that this young girl should not have had to ... , but to carry on a memory of times past, times that should not be forgotten. The closing words of the book read, "If I can help Americans to understand china, and the Chinese to learn about the United States, even a little, I wil...

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