In order to fully comprehend how Mao came to be so powerful, the driving forces and motives which drove Mao need to be analysed. ... Maurice Meisner, now deceased historian and professor at the University of Wisconsin, states in his book 'Mao Zedong,' that what this Darwinist text conveyed to Mao was that "wealth and power" of the nation was the main value to which all other values must be subordinated, not excluding traditional cultural values, if need be. ... " – Mao Zedong's China; Kathlyn Gay, 2008. In 1919, Mao now age 26, travelled to Beijing and took...

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Correspondingly, impact from their horrible family's 7experience during China's 1966-1967 Cultural Revolution8 and grievance towards Mao Zedong and the Chinese government, the Gao Brothers create works, notably The Execution of Christ, which 'ranges from the political and satirical to questions of material and spiritual spaces, and takes a humanitarian stance that questions the role government and the individual play within contemporary Chinese society since 1985.9' Thus, it can be seen that both of them are critical of the dark reign of the role governments and express th...

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The main attraction to this sphere of interest was the dramatic shift in popular Western opinion of Chairman Mao Zedong over the last few decades. ... In the case of Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, as there can be no definite argument on why Mao Zedong would encourage Chinese students to enact the decimation of his own revolutionary gains, the Cultural Revolution remains unbelievably enigmatic. ... OCR is written before Mao's death in 1976, and prior to the reversal of the depictions of major protagonists in the Chinese leadership. As a result, OCR is much more sympat...

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"(Compestine 28) Unknowing that Comrade Li is a political officer of Chairman Mao who planned to rid the country of intellectuals like her parents, she has no hard feelings against Comrade Li. ... Ling begins to realize that Chinese intellectuals, including her family, are disliked by Chairman Mao Zedong, therefore, unpopular among the working class of China, the majority of the population. ... To prevent her mother and herself from going another week without the food needed to keep them healthy, Ling risks her life to obtain the meat limited only to the political officials working for M...

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