Essay On Westernization

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.

Xi may be using the campaign to target powerful officials who threaten his political dominance. Bo Xilai, the Communist Party Secretary of Chongqing from 2007-2012, has been one of the most prominent party leaders to be arrested. Bo, who was supposed to be elected to the Politburo Standing Committee (Bo was already a member of the Politburo), is serving a life sentence for bribery, embezzlement, and abuse of power. Members of the Western media have speculated that he was found guilty because he was planning a coup to oust new President Xi from power (Yuen, 2014, p. 41). Bo was removed for his involvement in the Wang Lijun scandal. Wang Lijun, the vice-mayor of Chongqing, notified the United States that Bo was behind the murder of British

Ai Weiwei [b. August 28, 1957] Born in Beijing, China, artist and activist Ai WeiWei stands as one of the most well-known and outspoken critics of the Chinese government. His work is multidisciplinary, extending across sculpture, photography, installation, and filmmaking. Ai’s most notable work, Sunflower Seeds (2010), contains 100 million hand-painted porcelain seeds, and acts as a commentary on the loss of the individual in mass production. In 2011, Ai was detained by Chinese authorities under suspicious charges for three months, followed by thee long years of restricted travel (lifted in 2015). Despite being under China’s scrutinizing eye, Ai continues to make provocative artwork and politically charged posts and tweets. In engaging the global community through social media, he has managed to bring attention to the corruption of his country, and has made his voice heard on an international scale.

A mass population of Falun Gong are continueing to die from the tortures and brainwashing in the Republic of China. On average a new case of abuse are reported every 3 days. Since 1999, 3700 cases has been reported of persecution. These deaths occurred in various society levels, such as the rural areas and the urban areas. The documented cases of the Falun Gong are very disturbing and surprisingly the persecutions are willing to tell their story. One of the documented persons were Ms.Wang Yujie was sent to a Detention center on March 11, 2010 for putting up flyers of Falun Gong around her neighborhood. After 15 days at the Detention center, she was sentenced without trial to a year at the Hewan forced labor camp. While she was there , she was beat,tortured, and threatened by her inmates. They said to her, “ If you don’t

Tiananmen has had very little effect on China in 2017, but in the years following 1989, China was in turmoil. As factions began to rise within the CCP and the thought of their lost loved ones are still fresh in people's minds, a threat of yet another movement was growing. Fueled by their fear of revolution, China’s government unifies its members under a single mission, to eliminate and destroy all information on Tiananmen. A purge begins of all documents and articles of Tiananmen. Over the decades, China has hidden and censored many articles, websites, media, etc about Tiananmen from its people and has killed many who dared to talk of the “June Fourth Incident” and anything else the CCP sees as undesirable. For example, in 1996 Falun Gong, a popular buddhist practice that embodies the ideals of peace, balance and harmony, grew extremely popular. Falun Gong was mainly practiced through meditation and involved peaceful practices, but the CCP feared that it would grow too popular and eventually turn into a political rival. To prevent being overthrown, the CCP punished anyone who dare to practice Falun Gong within the People’s Republic of China (PRC) by beating them and torturing them. The photos of the victims of this brutal persecution caused fear to spark in the country and as a result of this terror, not one person of the 1.381 billion people that inhabit Chinese soil talk about the protests or anything that the CCP dislikes as the sword of death is always hanging precariously above their

Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin, Russia’s greatest man in the Early 1900’s. He accomplished many things in his lifetime, including a good relation with the king of Russia. For this research paper, we will be going over these topics: his early life, his relations with the Czar of Russia and his death and afterlife. He was, in short, an astounding man to all.

On 18 May 1995, the police took Liu into custody for launching a petition campaign on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the Tiananmen massacre, calling on the government to reassess the event and initiate political reform. He was held under residential surveillance in the suburbs of Beijing for 9 months. He was released in February 1996 but was arrested again on 8 October for writing an October Tenth Declaration, co-authored by him and another prominent dissident Wang Xizhe, mainly on the Taiwan issue that advocated a peaceful reunification in order to oppose the Chinese Communist Party's forceful threats against the island. He was ordered to serve three years of re-education through labor[10][60] "for disturbing public order" for that statement.[61]

As of 2009, The Chinese Communist Party has allegedly tortured and killed approximately 2,000 (Jacobs, 2009 pg.1) people who practiced Falun Gong. Falun Gong is a peaceful group. They don’t quite consider themselves a religion, but the CCP has deemed them a “cult” (Chang, 2004 pg.96). What is it about this organization that threatens the CCP so much, that they feel the need to imprison them, torture them, and sometimes execute them? To answer that question, you must first look at China’s traditional and political history, and also examine objectively, the history and ideals of Falun Gong.

While speaking out against the People’s Republic of China may have its consequences, the words that someone may speak carry much more weight and meaning than many of the marches or movements in America, largely in part of it is a right in the United States to be outspoken. When a group of people speak out against their government in China, it causes waves all across the media and the country itself. When a group of people speaks out against the American government, no one cares. No one cares, because that is 75% of social media content in the United

At the age of sixteen, he moved to St Petersburg which was Russia’s capital city. At the age of twenty he began publishing original research papers and he graduated top of his year despite his temper which made him unpopular amongst his peers and teachers. At 21, he got a job as a teacher but returned to his school for his degree.

Due to political pressure and their restrictions they put on art after Tiananmen Square, Bing went to the United States in 1990, he lived there until

Ai Weiwei is an artist from china who is an enemy of the state all because he was taking pictures and the country didn't like that at all. He was trying to leave china because the political beliefs their and how they have been treating people. On his way here before boarding a ship he had a sack put over his head and taken to solitary confinement for 81 days. He was watched 24 hours a day and couldn't do anything by himself. China has activist who want to subversive the political beliefs because of what happened to Ai and other artist. Ai is considered an enemy of the state because he was an artist in china.

“I saw many people passing away. Nobody cried. The brain doesn’t work. China set up the system not only to force people to make the products, to make profit for the government, but also to change people’s minds. Brain change. There is no choice of religion, no choice of political view.” -Harry Wu, prisoner in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

Advocates for human rights throughout China have been deemed as enemies of the government and have been punished a such. Liu Xiaobo, 2010 Noble Peace Prize winner, was an active advocate for a more prominent democracy and improvements for the rights of the Chinese people; until his arrest for encouraging others to undermine the government. In recent day, Xiaobo has been transported from the prison to be treated in a hospital for terminal liver cancer. Liu Xia, Xiaobo’s wife has requested multiple times to leave China with her husband and brother to seek better treatment and accommodations. Xiaobo’s family and friends have claimed that Xiaobo is unhappy with his treatment and his condition is rapidly decreasing. However, the Chinese Justice

As a child, Gorbachev had a passion for learning. When he graduated from high school with a silver medal in 1950, his father persuaded him to continue on to university. Gorbachev’s academic record was stellar, and he was accepted into Moscow University, the premier school in the Soviet Union, without having to take the entrance exam. The university even provided him with free living accommodations at a nearby hostel. Gorbachev graduated from Moscow University cum laude with a law degree in 1955 and shortly afterward returned to his hometown with his new wife, Raisa, a fellow Moscow University alumnus.