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China, Mao Zedong feared that China would move too far in a revisionist direction with an emphasis on expertise rather than on ideological purity as the Soviet model was doing. In response Mao gathered a group of radicals such as Defense Minister Lin Biao to help him attack current party leadership to reassert the authority he had lost during the recent economic crisis and the Great Leap Forward. In 1966, Mao launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966 – 1976). The goal of the movement

Cultural Revolution, refers to a political movement that leads by Mao Zedong during May 1966 to October 1976. The original intention for Cultural Revolution is to prevent the restoration of capitalism. Mao want to clean the force who block the development. However, because of the failure leadership, this movement goes to a wrong way and become out of control. This ten years revolution seriously impact Chinese economic and development, it gives Communist Party and its people a big damage: school closed

Understanding the relationship between Zhou Enlai and Mao Zedong is critical in determining Zhou’s true motives for providing sanctuary to the victims of the Cultural Revolution. The mystery of Zhou and Mao’s relationship is not that of Mao’s sadism, which has been exposed by numerous writers, but Zhou’s submission. Their relationship, and Zhou’s role in Communist China, and therefore the Cultural Revolution is questioned by few historians other than Gao Wenqian, Andrew Nathan, and Jonathan Spence

As Mao’s political enemies were purged, he soon started to build the new type of government and reconstruct the orders in the nation. First, he believed that only by using a “triple alliance” of cadres, revolutionary organizations and the army, which represented the most significant three parts in the revolution, could China go back to the right track. In order to consolidate this alliance, Maoist leaders declared that a “revolutionary committee” was necessary and the only way to reorganize the political

A. Plan of Investigation The purpose of this study is to answer the question: To what extent did Chinese leaders display their power through the controlling of sex in the Chinese Cultural Revolution? This can give historians a better understanding of the extent to which the Chinese leaders controlled every aspect of the Chinese people's life. This is a fairly new subject because, as I will discuss later in the project, sex was silenced in the Cultural Revolution. (words:137) | B. Summary

Ai Weiwei is a Chinese artist and architect who over the years has sparked up a lot of controversy and has been arrested on multiple occasions for various reason. Almost from birth on the 28th August 1957, Ai Wei Wei’s life has been spent in exile and controlled by the government. His father, a poet- Ai Qing, was sent to jail when the anti-communist Nationalist government deemed him a leftist and jailed him for his opposition to the governments leader Chiang Kai- Shek. His whole family was sent

he reason this is important to know is because the system of Communism when heavily analyzed is also at the same time heavily flawed when put to practical use. To an extent, to have there be no class construct is impossible to pull of when coming from a Capitalistic system. As a systematic way of life it educates and unearths flaws of a society, such as worker exploitation, money laundering and bribery. But past that it's impossible to implement in any large society that is part of the global market

Nguyen Xuan Bao was born in central Vietnam in 1926. He is better known as Thich Nhat Hanh, the Buddhist monk, highly respected Zen master, writer, and activist. Entering the monastery at age 16, Nhat Hanh was trained in the traditions of Mahayana Buddhism. With over one hundred books published, he has easily been able to spread his message of love, peace, as well as his belief in finding nonviolent solutions to all conflicts. During his time as a monk, Nhat Hanh has established quite a few terms

Khao Do. By Will Slupecki and Phil Gikas Khao Do is a Vietnamese man, who was Born in Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam in 1978. When he was two years old when he left Vietnam with his family and moved to Sydney, after moving around Sydney for a while him and his family finally settled in Yagoona in the cities west. While he was a child he excelled in his school work which helped him received a scholarship to st Aloysius college. He has a mother Hien Do and a dad

Unique Design of the Vietnam War Memorial At the age of twenty one, a female undergraduate at Yale University named Maya Lin submitted her design for the Vietnam Memorial. Her idea for the memorial was extremely unique and controversial. After long discussions by a panel, it was chosen for construction. The design that she submitted was one that was very different in comparison to other memorials, and it was one that has a tendency to leave a lot of questions on the minds of the visitors