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  • January 1, 2012 at 4:18 am #26314
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    I think this was my favorite class during this seminar (although I enjoyed all of them). It is a good sign when after 3 hours of sitting in a room after a full day or teaching, you are not ready to leave! I really enjoyed learning about the cultural revolution and the great leap forward. I had no idea China was going through a major famine, just like North Korea in the 1970s. I will definitely be bringing more information about that into my world history ii class when we compare/contrast the soviet union and china from the 1940s-1980s.

    January 1, 2012 at 4:22 am #26315
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    Oh, this was also the class where Clay mentioned the pingpong players and the movie USC-China Institute is working on. My roommate actually helped produce the film so I had heard of the story this summer when they were filming, but it was so interesting to hear how my worlds are all intertwined! I can't see when the film is premiering but we should all get together and watch it!

    January 8, 2012 at 3:17 pm #4493
    Rob_Hugo@PortNW
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    Modern China (20th century) has always fascinated me....two books that come to mind are Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng and Wild Swans by Jung Chang. Both deal with the changes in China after 1949 ...Nien Cheng was a western educated, wealthy wife of a Shell oil executive and both decided to stay in China.....she was mistreated and her daughter killed during the Cultural Revolution.....Jung Chang is a daughter of party officials who left China in the early 1980s.

    The strength of the Chinese people through the last century is fascinating but at the same time puzzling....the number of people killed in such movements as land reform and the treatment of of the children of landlords....but in the end it's the tenacity and strength of the Chinese
    population that appears to triumph.

    January 8, 2012 at 3:17 pm #26316
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    There were several things I learned about Communist China from the December 6th lesson. I didn't realize that the communist party in China are represented everywhere in Chinese society. For example, Professor Dube explained that in the organizational setting of a school there would not only be a principal that headed the school but also a member of the People's Party to report to. Professor Dube also explained how there were two major laws the People's Party enforced in China- one was a Land Reform measure and the other was a Marriage Reform. In the marriage reform, the state began approving marriages instead of the family.

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