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On first glance, it would seem that the poverty of rural China would be an ideal place for individuals to sow communist ideology. The individuals in question were oppressed by crushing poverty, and had been treated in an inequitable fashion by the city dwelling, educated and urban classes by decades. However, to Chen Yuan-tsung's autobiographical work historical fiction, The Dragon's Village, demonstrates that land reform was hardly welcomed with open arms by the Chinese peasantry. Rather than acceptance, the individuals who took to the fields and rice paddies of China to spread the doctrine of communism, found a peasantry largely hostile to the ideology they espoused. The reasons for this difficulty included the still present but invisible class tensions between the two groups in opposition. The educated children of the urban elite who had adopted communism as the slogans through which to proclaim their adolescent rebellion had a great deal finding a convincing political tone to open the ear of the hungry and undereducated Chinese peasantry. According to Maoist doctrine, the working class was superior because it was the revolutionary class in Marxist dogma. However, the urban revolutionary children of the well-educated city dwellers saw these peasants only from a romanticized distance until they actually became a part of the world of the peasants. Because the urban teenagers had little idea of the realities of life of the peasants, little dialogue and exchange of ideas was possible between the two social orders until the urban teenagers had made themselves a part of rural life. Even then, although class tensions did not exist in Marxism dogma, in the real world class and gender prejudices prevented a full, deep and meaningful dialogue between these two groups.
The heroine of The Dragon's Village is Guan Ling-ling, originally from Shanghai. Guan leaves home to get a job at the Central Film...
The earliest divisions of the temple still standing are the barque chapels, just in the rear the first pylon. They were constructed by Hatshepsut, and appropriated by Tuthmosis III. The central division of the temple, the colonnade and the sun court were constructed by Amenhotep III, and a later on addition by Rameses II, who constructed the entry pylon, and the two obelisks connected the Hatshepsut structures with the core
138). Despite the contribution these SEZs have made to the Chinese state, Becker cautions that such meteoric growth is probably not sustainable over the long-term. For instance, Becker points out that, "Technology is changing assumptions about the future of industrial labor needs. Recent studies suggest that the link between high growth and job creation may not continue forever. In the 1980s it took a 3% increase in economic growth
One of those buildings was the International Foreign Trade Center -- Shenzhen's first skyscraper and the tallest building in China (36). Hong Kong is commonly referred to as a place where "East meets West" because of its hybrid nature. That is, there is a culture mix occurring that is part traditional Chinese as well part British due to its colonization by the British. Hong Kong is quite a modern place,
Town/Village Development in the UK in the Medieval Ages Leicester Development in the Medieval Ages Leicester provides an excellent example of fort-settlement-town-city development through the Medieval Ages. Controlled at different stages by the Romans, Anglo Saxons, Danish and, of course, Great Britain, Leicester shows the combined contributions, primarily of the Romans, Anglo Saxons and British in its development. Realizing the importance of these contributions, the University of Leicester has undertaken various archaeological
Ly, Tran, and Ho Epochs The Dai Viet Kingdom had its origin in the middle of the 10th century until around the middle of the 11th century, when local chiefs were able to vie for control in what is now Land of Viet However, regionalism is the pattern. As the Northern Tang dynasty crumbled, it lost control over South (which are now parts of Northern Vietnam) The weakening of Northern Tang gradually led
Puff (the Magic Dragon)" by Peter, Paul, and Mary During the 1960s, one of the revolutionary developments that changed the landscape of American culture and history was the establishment of the Hippie Movement. The Hippies, as the people of this movement were called, popularized the "apolitical counterculture," wherein the Hippies did not subsist to "materialism, convention (of the society), and authority." Instead, they resorted to their newfound ideal of a
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