After the death of Sun Yat Sen 12th March 1925, Chiang Kai-Shek emerged as the new leader of the GMD. He wanted to unite China and carried out a purge that eliminated the communists from the organization. Chiang commanded the army which defeated the communist army and forced the survivors to make the famous Long March towards Guangxi in North West China. Mao decided to evacuate the area and establish a new stronghold in the north-west of China. On October 16th 1934 Mao, Lin Biao, Zhu De, and 80,000 communist headed towards the west through mountainous areas.
On 1st October 1949, China became the People’s Republic. It was the beginning of a revolution in Chinese society, government, law and economy. Over the last fifty years, China had been through a lot of changes. China started off being run by Warlords who were overthrown by the Kuomintang in 1913. In 1921, the Communist party was formed and Civil war broke out between the Kuomintang and the Communist.
The Critiques of Feudal Chinese Society in Lu Xun’s Two Articles: Madman’s Diary and Leaving the Pass By The term 2 HASS essay question Singapore University of Technology and Design Lin Yijuan October 2013 Once during the years 1915-1923 in modern Chinese history, a grand revolution campaign named New Culture Movement was whipped up by some pioneer revolutionists. This group led by Lu Xun and Chen Duxiu considered the feudalism as the primary obstruction of China’s development and appealed to the disposal of feudal autocracy and the reformation of Chinese traditional thoughts, culture and ethic codes through the channel of literature. Two articles among these literature written by Lu Xun, Madman’s Diary and Leaving the Pass, sharply revealed the essence and the root of feudalism and criticized the conservative and rigid traditional thoughts. This paper will talk about the critiques of Chinese society in these two works and relate them to the special historical background of culture revolution. The Diary of A Madman describes a madman’s psychological activities and conditions in the form of diary.
In the 2nd century AD, the Chinese imperial government recognized Laozi, an ancient Chinese philosopher, as a divine being. Laozi played a critical role in the rise of Taoism. It became established in Malaysia, Singapore, multiple Chinese diaspora communities within Asia, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam. Before the Communist revolution, Taoism was one of the strongest religions in China. After a campaign to destroy non-Communist religion, however, the numbers significantly dropped, making it difficult to assess the statistical popularity
The calendar paintings in old Shanghai, originated in the last years of the 19th century, was a kind of commercial advertising painting drawn by the Chinese employed by foreign merchants for their goods dumping, which initially adopted the format of Chinese new year paintings with a calendar on it and so was called as calendar pictures (Lv et al., 2011). From 1911-1927, the Revolution of 1911 overthrew the monarchy as well as the clothing rank system which lasted in China for thousands of years. People started accepting western aesthetic standards with the emphasis on the figure beauty (Bian, 2004). The beautiful ladies dressed in
Name: ZuXin Liu ID #: 6708271 Professor: Andre Lecours Class: POL 1101 G Date: March 18, 2012 The 1949 Chinese Revolution The Chinese Revolution in 1945 - 1949 resolved the issue of what governing system could control over China, with witch, the revolution was involved the political crisis generated by the rivalry between the Chinese Communist Party and the bourgeois Kuomintang or the Nationalist Party of China. To put it in a simple term, this is a struggle between the communism and the capitalism. Now, the revolution or the Chinese civil war did not happened just by defining these flexible terms, and in spite of the fact that the Chinese revolution was created by a long history within China, the class’ difference of its people, and then came the influence over an idea of equality. The civil war of China between the Kuomintang Party and the Chinese Communist Party effects greatly on the country and its people was a turning point in Chinese history. This event resulted in the establishment of Communism in China.
Art and China’s Cultural Revolution Traditional Chinese art has always been a major aspect of Chinese history. However, shortly after the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, Mao Zedong declared that art should serve the people. In the three decades following the establishment of China’s Communist party art and China’s Revolution undergone one of the most disastrous and tumultuous eras in modern Chinese history. During this time, the Mao Zedong led government sought to modernize all aspects of Chinese society, a process that included suppressing or destroying much of traditional culture. The government also wanted to produce a new visual culture to communicate its philosophy and objectives to the people of China.
Chen Kaige's 1993 film Farewell My Concubine opens with what the director portrays as the denouement of revolutionary Chinese history, the days following the end of the Cultural Revolution. To Chinese viewers and those who are knowledgeable about China's 20th century, the Cultural Revolution is a known quantity, a vital element to any story that spans the great mass of time that Kaige documents in his film. To those who are neophytes in this history the film's focus pulls back from this final scene into a retrospective of the main characters' shared pasts. In this way Kaige gives us an ending point and reverts immediately to the starting place – granting us a glimpse of how the characters and China itself had ended up the way it did. But throughout the movie the Cultural Revolution remains a climax, a point in the narrative that all the other narrative arcs bend inexorably toward.
The Ming began with the overthrow of the hated Mongols, who ruled China for one hundred years. (Adler 352) The Ming Dynasty was founded by Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu was a young poor man when he joined the Red Turban rebellion in the lower Yangtse region. (china tour 1) Zhu, who later took the imperial title Hongwu ruled from 1368-1398. (Adler 352) In 1356 Zhu led his army into the city of Jiquing, which is currently Nanjing in Jiangsu Province.
In this paper an effort is made to study the Chinese political system and the reforms made after the Cultural Revolution. CHAPTER 1 GENESIS OF THE CHINA’S POLITICAL SYSTEM 3. More than a century ago Napoleon Bonaparte had remarked, " China, there lies a sleeping giant let him sleep, for when he wakes he will shake the world.” Within a century of Napoleon's death, China began to awaken, and its awakening has indeed shaken the world. Therefore, to have a more clearer understanding of the political system of this giant nation we shall go into its historical and political past since in order to understand the problems faced by Chinese modernisers, it is important to have some sense of the tradition that provides the focus for their efforts. 4.