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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"(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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