Art for Politics Sake: Art Censorship in Communist China, And The United States We want one single, grand lie which will be believed by everybody - including the rulers, ideally, but failing that the rest of the city -Plato from his Republic Today if an average American was asked if he or she believed that censorship was an important part of the perfect state, they would not only answer "no" but they would say that the perfect state must have no form of censorship in order for it's people to be happy. ... Many of his plans for the different classes, specifically the "...

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In 1935, he initiated the Long March, a journey of 6,000 miles led by the Communist powers fleeing from the oppressive political campaign of Chiang Kai-shek. ... Peng Dehuai In 1954, Peng Dehuai gained legitimacy on the Northern Expedition as a Communist general. ... In 1959, however, Peng was eliminated from his senior position in the Communist party. ... However, despite such problems confronting the Communists, the new regime had important assets to bring to the immediate task of reconstruction. ... The Communists scored impressive accomplishments soon after taking power. ...

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It transitioned from a partnership with the Soviet Union in the Communist bloc, to a role as a rogue nation of Maoist political zealots who sought total isolation from the developed nations of the international community. ... That quickly led to a commitment to economic development under the auspices of a politically autocratic state – all of this under the control of a political party that in 2010 calls itself "communist" but that encourages millionaires to join its ranks, and which espouses a market economy in a blend that no one quite knows what to call. ... While there is a...

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After the Communist takeover of the country, Mao continued this emphasis on moral force by demanding that Chinese citizens demonstrate what he referred to as "correct consciousness." ... Nevertheless, the ideal of moral force was still a potent one in China even after the Communist takeover. It is noteworthy that Shirk feels that the Chinese Communist Party leaders saw economic reform as a way to regain their and their party's moral virtue even after Mao's death. ... This is not to say that the idea of economic reform was embraced enthusiastically by all members of the ...

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Also identifying to what extent was Mao's leadership directly correlated to the victory of the Chinese Communist party. ... After the ramification that the Long March was, beginning the innovative pathway of Communist leader Mao Zedong. ... The Chinese Communist Party used the Red Army to expand its influence while leading the anti-Japanese resistance in north China. ... This policy won support for the Communists among the rural peasants. ... Military Strategy A substantial difference between the Nationalists and the Communists is their militaristic views. ...

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Briefly, on the topic of the KMT's loss in 1949, there are those authors that emphasize its own failings and those that emphasize the success of the Communists. ... The Communist Revolution and the Failure of the KMT Inherent Problems in the Party, Government, and Society There seems to be little disagreement that most of the CCP's success was owed to the paramount issue. ... Modernization was largely isolated to the coasts, leaving the peripheries out and vulnerable to Communist exploitation. ... China's political-economy gravitated to the communists even further since ...

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Consequently, this subject was dropped in favour of studying the history of the Chinese Communist Party, as it was an area which I was keen to learn about, overlapped in many places with Soviet history and had a relatively large amount of data published about it. ... In this period Mao encouraged students to rebel against the system that he had fought to establish, under the pretence of destroying any remaining reactionary elements in the party as well as the four "olds" -aspects of traditional Chinese culture blocking communist progression, and threatening bourgeois reactionary revisionism. ...

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After the Communist takeover of the country, Mao continued this emphasis on moral force by demanding that Chinese citizens demonstrate what he referred to as "correct consciousness." ... Nevertheless, the ideal of moral force was still a potent one in China even after the Communist takeover. It is noteworthy that Shirk feels that the Chinese Communist Party leaders saw economic reform as a way to regain their and their party's moral virtue even after Mao's death. ... This is not...

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Weiwei has been accused of bigamy and fathering a child out of wedlock.(5) Shortly after Weiwei was born Chinese communist officials accused Ai Qing of being a rightest and exiled the family to remote locales, first to the Northeastern province of Heilongjiang and then to the northwestern autonomous region of Xinjiang. ...

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