The Chinese Artist And Activist Ai Weiwei

Power is the source of all evil in the world which makes it more dangerous than everything else. Particularly, all of the most horrendous people in history all wanted this one thing called power. Power changes people by corrupting them, making them greedy, and bring out the darkness in people.

Choosing between what is moral and choosing what is right for the nation can be two quite different decisions. In the graphic novels, Boxer and Saints, Gene Luen Yang writes and illustrates the experiences that two different Chinese people have during the Boxer’s rebellion. In the Boxer’s novel, Bao is a leader of the Big Sword Society that will lead them to rebel against the foreigners who he believes is making China evil. Through the perspective of Bao, Gene Luen Yang questions should one be willing to put aside personal autonomy to defend their national identity.

In the text, Ray Bradbury uses character to show that the Mandarins want the best for their people. One example is how the older men listen to what the little girl has to say. In order to be a good leader, one must listen to what everyone has to say. If they aren’t open to new ideas nothing would ever change or get better. If they want the best for their people then they need to be leaders that are willing to change things. Another thing they did was that they built a last rebuilding of their cities. One town was the Town of the Golden Kite, and the other town was the Town of the Silver Wind. By listening to what the girl had to say gave them a new idea about how the wind helps the kite fly, and the kite in return helps the wind become less

When I was 10 years old I looked up communism, and it meant ‘a society where property was public, and everyone would be helped according to needs.’ This confused me because I had always heard of communism in a negative context. Such a society would mean that, everyone would have food, water, shelter, an education and job. This is the ideal society. So why was it talked about with disgust and horror? Until reading Red Scarf Girl, I believed in that the ideal society could, no, would someday exist. But now I have been convinced otherwise.

In the beginning of the story where Mr.Chiu being a man full of values and respect towards the government who is also a member of communist party, someone who believed injustice is never in his way, have been unjustifiably arrested for a crime which he never did only because the officers had the right to do literally anything they wanted. This situation directly refers to the theme as government is being unfair towards Mr. Chiu. Later Ha Jin develops the theme by giving another instance where Mr.Chiu is forcibly accepting all the accusations under the fear of the officers, where again his rights have been taken away from

In the 1960’s, China was overrun by the idea that everybody must be equal, and those who are superior should be punished for their “wrongdoings”. Ji-li Jiang grew up in this unfortunate era, and her novel, Red Scarf Girl, describes the struggles that people in China faced every day of their lives during the Cultural Revolution. This unfair treatment of upper and middle class citizens is depicted by the author’s own memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Ji-li Jiang recounts childhood experiences in order to elucidate how her family’s political situation affected her education, her family’s financial stability, and her basic freedoms in life, providing readers with a deeper analysis and more personal communication of the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

Confucius only taught around 3,000 students during his lifetime in the Zhou Dynasty, but his ideas and values became integrated with the Chinese culture of the past and the present (Ames). He created a syllabus for mastering the “six arts” and inspired those who followed his principles to become effective citizens. Although no one knows much about his life, he greatly influence the way China grew into what it is today.

Satire is used in literature to criticize and point out society’s flaws. The criticism is usually masked in humour. Irony is commonly used in satires to expose flaws, an effective example is John Smith’s A Modest Proposal, he effectively uses irony, to communicate his argument about the poverty in Ireland at the time. Similarly, in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale she criticizes the society that women live in. Atwood uses allusions to the Old Testament, Cultural Revolution, Salem Witch Trials, and the Taliban to satirize the oppression of women in political, religious and social aspects.

In this essay “No one died in Tiananmen Square” by William Lutz, it is evident that the events displayed confirm the warnings that Orwell shared in Nineteen Eighty – Four. This essay resembled the novel by George Orwell in many different ways, both exploit the government to manipulate the mind of an individual over the actual reality and both governments overuse and abuse there powers. In “No one died in Tiananmen Square” the government uses violence to stop the peaceful protesters. This is similar to 1984 because the totalitarian government in Oceania uses violence if they do not obey the rules of Big Brother. A quote from 1984, from part 2 of chapter 10 displaying violence for commenting thought crime is “One of the men had smashed his fist into Julia’s solar

Unit 7 is a rather long section covering both Rome and China 's powerful and expansive empires during the time period 300 BCE - 300 CE. The Han Dynasty and Imperial Rome were very similar in their unprecedented scale and duration. Although they did operate in differing ways, for example, Rome relied on slaves to expand its workforce, while the Chinese 's economy lived off of free peasant farmers. The Chinese benefited from having an overwhelming population that would benefit the bureaucracy and supply political stability for the Hans. When it came to the Roman Empire, religion did not have the same impact that Confucianism had on the dynasties in China. The first couple of primary sources of Unit 7 detail the success and downfall of the Qin dynasty as well as the Han dynasty which followed. The later

“With bronze as a mirror one can correct one 's appearance; with history as a mirror, one can understand the rise and fall of a state; with good men as a mirror, one can distinguish right from wrong.”

During the cold war China had become a communist state and began to receive much more help from the USSR. The communist leader of China, Mao Zedong, stated, “All political power comes from the barrel of a gun..”(Mao Zedong 1983). Those with power are those that have weapons and military strength to support and back them. The idea that only those with weapons to support them have political power is only giving two possible outcomes, either you do have political power or you have nothing, which relates back to the rhetorical strategy of faulty cause and effect that displays only two possible options, when there are always more. Comparably, In Animal Farm just after they had discussed why the pigs should have the milk and apples, Squealer says, “Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed our duty? Jones would come back, yes, Jones would come back”(Orwell 14). Squealer is essentially saying that if he and the rest of the pigs fail to watch over everyone and keep them in check, then Jones will return and take back the farm. With Squealer giving them the idea that if they do not uphold their position as leaders Jones will come back, it leads the animals on the farm to feel as though there are only two options, Jones, or the pigs, which connects to the main idea that, when a leader gives only two options, it blinds the people from the other possibilities and other solutions to their problem. Mao Zedong and Squealer from only gave their people 2 possible outcomes to their current scenarios, which caused them to look past the other potentially better

It is often believed and taught that from about 300 BCE to 300 CE the Roman Empire was the greatest imperial power in the world and that it was the social, economic, and political center of world. This was also the period of the Chinese Han Dynasty, which was an equal, if not more, powerful empire in all aspects. The similarities of the implementation, spread, and establishment of the Han and Roman empires’ authority is what made them both successful and dominant in gaining, maintaining, and exercising the political authority they both possessed in the pre-modern world. BOTH EMPIRES WERE SUCCESSFUL BECAUSE OF THEIR USE OF MILITARY FORCE TO CONQUER, BUT BEYOND THAT THEY ESTABLISHED LAW AND ORDER BY EITHER SPREADING THEIR LAWS AND IDEALS

During this time period china was basically falling apart. The Chinese’s way how government had no set way, and was constantly being oppressed by foreign influence. Every part of their government was flawed. They began all these programs and laws in efforts to improve their country, but they soon abolished it all. They were sending children away to study in foreign nations. They abolished their laws in effort to win back the support of highly valued Chinese subjects. Chinese women were too having a tough time as well. They were dealing with maul practices such as foot bindings. This was a terrible practice which was extremely painful. They would take a girl as young as 4 years old and purposely break their feet. They would then bend their toes behind their feet because it was said the women with small feet were highly desire by the opposite sex. China had many things that need to be done in order to have a promising government.

In order to ensure their steady control over this vast amount of people the Chinese government must control them by regulating the worlds most intertwined and complex communication system in the modern era, the internet. A guideline to the China's leading party is strict regulation in every aspect of the internet. In the past couple years a revitalized mission for control against internet freedom has emerged. The foremost problem in China is internet censorship. The Chinese government has several regulatory bodies in charge of internet censorship, among them being the State Council Information office, the Cyber space Administration of China, and finally the State Administration of Press, Publications, Radio, Film, and Television. These government bodies were created to maintain a so called "cyberspace sovereignty" controlled by the State. The main topic of controversy among the internet landscape of China is its strict limitations and restrictions on content deemed sensitive. Any content found to be incompatible with State propaganda, protest against key political figures or ideologies held by China's one party system will be swiftly censored by both well-oiled automated computers