Ai Weiwei's Repressive Government

Bob Fu conveys clearly the inexorable control that Communist leaders in China have over their people. For example, after Fu and his friends participated in the Tiananmen Square protests, Fu was coerced, day in day out, to write a confession of his purported misdeeds against China and her people as a “counterrevolutionary” (79-82, 85, 87).

Even with her previous experiences at Beijing University and at Big Joy Farm, Wong still held some belief that the Chinese system wasn’t as bad as it was sometimes made out to be. This event proved to her that it was. “The enormity of the massacre hit home…Although it had been years since I was a Maoist, I still had harbored some small hope for China. Now even that was gone” (259). As a reporter Wong was able to view the progression of the protests in leading up to the massacre, and in viewing it understood that the Chinese people were much more independent than they had previously demonstrated over the past 50 years. She had continuously seen the Chinese people following what they were told between learning in school or with physical labor, yet this protest was one of the first large scale displays of the unacceptance of the regime by the people, and the government did not know what to do with it. But because of this, Wong was able to recognize that the people were not reliant on this way of life that they had previously been bound to, but truly could lead for themselves and take control. The massacre awakened Wong both to the reality that the government was not acting to benefit the people, and that the people were more than capable of acting for

Joshua Wong does not like the current Chinese government state. Right now China is in a communist state, where the government controls the economy, and one single person holds most of the power. He doesn’t like this form of government because it is not split equal among authorities. So he wants the power to be split equally and have somebody elected by the people. He also led the umbrella movement in 2014. The umbrella movement was a movement simultaneously created by protesters during the 2014 Hong Kong

Ai Weiwei’s activism started in China in the late 2000’s after living in the United States for several years. In addition to social media, his art is also a large part of his activism. His art demonstrates that he does not like the ideals of both the westernization and the communist regime. Weiwei used a Chinese social media website, called Sina Weibo, in order to share his art that was gaining popularity. His art often criticized the immediate acceptance of western ideas. One of his most prominent works uses a traditional Chinese vase that he defaces with a Coca-Cola logo painted over it. His goal was to show that western ideology ruined the

Among Zhang Yimou’s characters, we see many people who are subject to constraints on their free will and actions because they are either part of the Communist party or deemed to be

Ai Weiwei was born during the Cultural Revolution in China of 1950s, he inherited a lot of his political knowledge from his father who was a poet called Ai Quig. Ai Quig was then later exiled with his family to re-education camps on the out reaches of a desert in 1958 for questioning government authority. After the Cultural Revolution, Chinese citizens were allowed to travel outside their borders again in 1970s. As a young man, the place that Ai Weiwei dreamed about going to was New York. He went to New York and was exposed to its western influences, its liberty and freedom of expression (Springford, 2011).Using photography Weiwei recorded and documented everything that inspired him. Weiwei visited galleries and art museums that exposed

Ai Weiwei is a famous international artist and a most outspoken regional critic in China. Ai express his opinions though social media, visual arts and performing arts. In order to stop Ai’s criticism，Chinese authorities have shut down Ai’s blog, beat him, and take him to secret detention centers.

The film Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012) is a documentary directed by Alison Klayman. It follows contemporary Chinese artist and activist, Ai Weiwei, documenting how he stood up against the Chinese government and revealed the horrific actions the government commits. Ai Weiwei differs from other critics of the Chinese government because he uses aggressive words, while his fellow critics do not insult the government or the Communist Party. He uses several mediums to show how the government has acted including his blog and documentaries, showing what Chinese citizens go through on a daily basis.. Weiwei is incredibly brave for putting his life on the line to fight for a better country and a better world.

In recent years, China has become a worldwide superpower-seemingly out of nowhere. War-torn and sick of being trampled on by western powers, the Communist Party of China has given the almost 4,000 year old country a new lease on life. But all this newfound power and “prosperity” came at a price paid in sweat and blood. In the memoir Red Scarf Girl, Jiang Ji-Li recalls her experiences growing up during Chairman Mao’s “Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution”, during a time where hundreds of thousands were unfairly persecuted and even tortured by their brainwashed friends and family. Although it is clear that my experiences and Jiang Ji-Li’s are very different, there are also some similarities.

Ai Weiwei is Chinese born in the town of Beijing in China; Ai Weiwei was born on August twenty-eight in nineteen-fifty seven. Ai Weiwei is both an artist and fighter for human rights in China and uses art to advocate for democracy and expose wrongdoings of the government that has led to him being arrested. Ai Weiwei through his art has raised some important issues about the nature of relationships of Humans. This include, the relationship between an individual and the community and how one feels about him or herself (Hancox 279).

The Grand Canyon is a plateau canyon.Summer temperatures on the South Rim are relatively pleasant (50°s - 80°s F; 10°s to high 20°s C) but inner canyon temperatures are extreme. Daytime highs at the river, 5000 feet below the rim, often exceed 100° F (38° C) The average amount of rainfall in the canyon is less than 16 inches. The canyon has a North Rim and a South Rim both of which are located in the United States of America, the South Rim Visitor Center’s coordinates are 36°03'32"N 112°06'33"W, and the south rim is located in Williams, Arizona and Flagstaff, Arizona. The North Rim Visitor Center’s coordinates are 36°11'51"N 112°03'09"W, the north rim is located in North Rim, Arizona. Other landforms located in this area are cliffs, caves,

There’s evidence of this happening in people’s everyday real lives as well, this doesn’t just dwell inside of the book. China’s communist government oppresses its people as well, via the means of the internet. Ilham Tohti, just like Winston, felt the means to rebel by writing his feelings and hatred down. Mr.Tohti was unfortunately caught by his government and was issued a life imprisonment. Unlike Winston who succumbed to the group mentality during what their government called the two minutes of hate. Both examples; fictional stories and real life missories show ways of internal conflicts. Ilham just like Winston wanted to vent their anger into writing. Winston was subject to falling into the crowd even though he hates the very thing he’s cheering for while Ilham was subject to wrongful imprisonment. To quote Newsela’s article titled China’s massive effort to control internet content: “a Chinese court sentenced him to life imprisonment on charges of promoting “separatism.” ” It’s rather ironic that they charge Ilham on the terms of separatism when they, themselves are doing the exact same thing to their population as a whole.

During the Zhengfeng (1942-1944), the Chinese Communist Party strongly believed that artistic expressions lacked a unified cultural approach. As such, they used various methods to consolidate ideological unanimity among cadres around Maoism. In his “Talks at the Yan 'an Forum on Literature and Art,” Mao Zedong stresses the struggle on the cultural front as an indispensable

Throughout history of the United States and Mexican border there has been multiple depths of changes and immigration. From the area trading country ownership to population changes to having a fence line created on it. Seen in Figure1, the U.S.-

Deng Xiaoping has been the individual with the most impact on China since the 1970’s. Along with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, he is looked at as one of the key figures in evolution of communism in China . Deng Xiaoping will be remembered as a national hero, but this was not always the case. The real story of Deng includes the fact that, on more than one occasion, his peers ostracized him. During his lifetime he has been a part of the many changes in China throughout the twentieth century. He was by Mao Zedong’s side through all of the struggles of the Chinese Communist Party; battling with Chiang Kai-shek and the Guomindang over