Her family has to destroy most of their family photos because those personal items were prohibited during the Cultural Revolution. Strongly influenced by the losses, she and her family suffered, Liu was passionately interested in history and photographs, especially with reclaiming the lost histories of nameless women. Historic photographs of China from early and mid-20th century have been her primary inspiration in her career. Liu’s paintings exhibit realistic and abstract, narrative and symbolic, allowing multiple interpretations by viewers. In her paintings, Liu treated women as individuals.
While the protest lacked an identical cause or leadership, most of the protesters were generally against the economic policies and authoritarian of the ruling of the Chinese Communist Party and expressing calls for democratic reforms in the structure of government. The PRC government then used betrayal as an excuse and in Beijing, and used military force to suppress the demonstrators. The resulting military crack down caused a number of innocent citizens dead or injured. The report on number of deaths and injured ranged from two hundred – three hundred (PRC government) to two thousand – three thousand (Chinese Red Cross). Following the violence, the government carried out mass arrests of demonstrators and suppressed their supporters and other protests around China.
During these years, which mark the first in Mao’s reign as leader in China, there were a number of key features of Communist rule in China, notably land reform, economic policies, as well as violence. In this essay, I intend to argue that violence was a key feature, but that there are other factors that could be described as being ‘key’ also. Mao’s immediate aim upon coming to power was to gain control of the cities, where the GMD had been at its strongest. He was determined to stamp out any remaining support for the GMD and ordered massacres of suspects. 65,000 people were killed in Guangzhou and 28,000 in Shanghai.
Old things were replaced by new things. If they could not fit a bottle inside the pants or jeans, they were considered four olds. The “Four News” policy affected shopkeepers, as names of their shops often included reference to Chinese traditions. . Enthusiastic revolutionaries would smash any sign to bits if a single word did not match Chairman Mao's rules.
Trying to find a communist spy was extremely difficult in the Hollywood career; anyone who identified as communist sympathizers lost their jobs and reputations were ruined. Several had their passports taken, while others were thrown jail for not giving names of other communists. All trials were publicized, and often careers were destroyed based on untrue accusations. All artists brought to trial were blacklisted and for most, this meant the end of promising careers. However, after many years the intensity simmered down and many were able to return to work.
The 18th amendment contributed to the rise of organized crime because it created a lot of underground business. From killings to people living in poverty, that’s what the prohibition caused. If people really thought that prohibiting alcohol to be sold leally were going to help the way that people lived during this time, they were wrong. A lot of people were against the law, they argued that if they banned alcohol legal businesses were going to go broke and that was not going to help the economy get better. But alcohol was not the only thing breaking families apart they said, after the war, soldiers would come home and find themselves in a whole, struggling to find jobs.
Yick Wo, a Chinese American laundry owner who was arrested for not having a permit for his laundry mat, even though he was refused a permit. Chinese Americans had owned many of the neighborhoods laundry mats and other local businesses, but they needed permits. One of the owners in the neighborhood, Yick Wo, didn’t receive a permit and continued to run his business. He was eventually arrested. This injustice took place in 1866; after a decade of injustice behaviors that the Chinese Americans received in all places such as being banned from certain jobs and the Anti – Chinese law in the state constitution of 1877, which took place after this case.
There was no law about it; but the whites reported it round among themselves, that if a note was heard, they should have some dreadful punishment. Her husband and son died, and she got separated from her children as well. Many unfortunate events happened in Charity Bowery’s life. This context means that even though it doesn’t really states that Charity Bowery is a black woman. We can still picture it by reading between the lines.
Following the resilience from the protesters, the then Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping and other party elders resolved in using force against the protesters. They declared a total Martial law on the protesters and deployed 300,000 troops to Beijing that led to the wide spread killing at the Tiananmen Square and arrest of the protesters and their supporters, and also expelled foreign journalist from china. Reference: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB16/ http://www.tsquare.tv/themes/TatTcover.html
He ordered many scholars to be buried alive because they secretly kept books that weren’t allowed to be viewed. He even ordered 460 Confucianists, followers of Confucius, to be buried alive for daring to disagree with him and 700 more stoned to death by his soldiers. He confiscated weapons and implemented a harsh legal system to punish offenses. All people under Qin Shi Huang were equal before the law. People who breaks them would be punished severely.