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situation is so bad that the family has no savings and Dr. Xia, now nearly eighty, is worried about what will happen when he dies. Extortion is rampant, food is scarce, and the money that does exist has almost no value. De-hong becomes friendly with a Kuomintang general. Using his military freedom, they travel outside the walled city occasionally and De-hong leaves messages for her Communist counterparts.. The Communists then start regular bombardment of the city, including one dud shell that crashes into

though as he “reproached himself many times for not showing his own mother enough affection and for being so rigid that he was not even told about her funeral” (Chang, pg. 458). However diminished the cultural traditions had been by the Communists, Kuomintang, and Japanese, Jung Chang found it important to write about both the positive and negative traditions that either her, her mother, or grandmother lived with. A culturally significant event that affected Jung’s grandmother for her whole life was

herself, Soong Ching-ling and her husband took on difficult tasks as they attempted to fix the fundamental patterns arising back then and still today. In 1948 she became honorary chairman of the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee, a splinter group organized in Hong Kong to oppose Chiang Kai-shek’s Kuomintang. After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, Song remained on the mainland,

Yiyao Su 3/24/17 Career or Family Depicting in both movie Ruan Lingyu and Red Rose White Rose is an album of various types of women during the time of early twentieth century. During this period, the concept of career and family co-ordination has had a significant impact on the real life of women during the Republican period. Females have had to either take on the dual roles of professional women and housewives or make difficult choices between their careers and families. At that time, with the rise

setting up of a revolutionary base in 1931 by Mao. This base was forced out of Kiangsi in 1934 and Mao’s followers left with him, thus beginning the Long March which ended in 1935. After the Long March, Mao had enough military power to overcome the Kuomintang, or Chinese Nationalists Party, and gain control of China during the Chinese Civil War (C N Trueman, 2015). During this civil war China received support from Soviet Russia in the form of arms and military guidance. As Yang Kuisong, a Chinese historian

second fight was against the nationalist Kuomintang (Marks 10). The Nationalist Kuomintang was led by Chiang kai Shek. The overlapping wars persuaded Mao to ignore the advices and directions by Stalin. During the Second World War (1939-1945) Mao followed the lead of Stalin and agreed on the Joint Anti-Japanese Coalition with leader of Nationalist Kuomintang, Chiang Kai Shek (Hershberg 149). The treaty of friendship was signed with Nationalist Kuomintang in 1945. After 3 months of Japan’s surrender

Coping is expending conscious effort to solve personal and interpersonal problems, and seeking to master, minimize or tolerate stress or conflict. Everyone copes with political and cultural changes differently. It depends on what the individual thinks about the change; whether they believe it is positive or negative, if that person is afraid to voice their opinion, or if the change benefits them is some way, such as gaining power. Usually an opinion about a change is due to: individuals’ backgrounds

significant change. Kuomintang was losing their power, but in order to get out of trouble, they started to suppress people from education, economy, and military. Especially for radical student groups, Kuomintang started to destroy student organizations and expel students from school for no reasons. To against such peremptory’s demands, students from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Fudan University, and Tongji University came together and hold this demonstration. However, Kuomintang forcibly stopped it

leftist tone. 3.The first CCP-GMD collaboration was from 1923 to 1927, and the founding of the Huangpu Military Academy in 1924 was a remarkable example. 4.Sun Yat-Sen passed away on March 12, 1925, due to liver cancer. His death was a big shock to Kuomintang. Conclusion: The aim of “Three Main Rule of

into one of its darkest eras. These contradicting opinions can be easily seen in the assigned readings of this course. While Mao Zedong is generally praised for his military accomplishments during the overturning of the former government of the Kuomintang and the war against Japanese invasion, opinions differ when his ruling of China after 1949 comes into discussion. In some readings, he is most