STUDIES OF CHANGE: The Chinese Cultural Revolution The Cultural Revolution in China was the result of years of discontent among China's people at their outdated government and society, but what were the efficacious, particular motives and conditions for cultural revolutionary Mao Tse-Tung to bring about such major reforms? China; Asia's leading economic power and its most populous country, is a highly diverse and complex country with an equally diverse and complex history. ... Throughout his school life, Mao and his peers read radical newspapers, studied world history and, accordi...

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Karl Marx once said: "History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches. ... This topic has come to my concern due to my interest as a Chinese to my own nation's history and culture, as well as the significant experiences and stories I was told as a kid by my grandmother, who has spent her childhood in Shanghai during the period of China's Great Leap Forward. ... An example include China's Great Leap Forward (1958-1961), led by the Communist Party of China. ... Analysis and Evidence Marxism was after all an ideology, an imagination of a perfect world, a series of eco...

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Mao Tse-Tung was a principal Chinese Marxist theorist, a soldier and a statesman who commanded China's communist revolution. He was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party from 1935; he was chairman of the People's Republic of China from 1949 until his death on 1959. ... He used fanatical teenage believers to resurrect China. ... These campaigns eventually lead to famine and starvation and it costs millions of death and is coined as the one of the worst famine in history. It is considered by some experts as the worst famine in all of history (Lu, 2000). ...

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The Chinese economy stagnated during the social-oriented rule of Mao in the 1950's. Instead of focusing on the modernization of the country's agricultural-based economy, China's leader intended to install the many values and doctrines of communism into Chinese society. ... Thus China's market economy was scrapped in favor of one that promoted self-reliance. ... Communist nations have a history of playing minor roles in the world market, and China under Mao was not an exception, "At the outset of its economic reforms in the late 1970's, China was an insignificant partic...

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On 1st October 1949 after defeating the KMD in the Chinese Civil War, Mao announced at the gate of heavenly peace that he was now the leader of Peoples Republic of China. ... Also, Soviet aid had become excessive loans and exploitation of China. ... Collectivization policies produced famines in both China and Russia. ... The reasoning behind their policies is simplified to the desire to destroy the history and culture of the countries, which had long been associated with backwardness and dis-functionality, to create a new socialist society. ... However, not all of Mao's social polici...

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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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