Mao Zedong: Banning Books In China

Mao Zedong Mao Zedong caused controversy throughout China, doing whatever he could to stay in power. Many laws were made in order to keep consistent beliefs and limit the risk of powerful uprisings in the future. This law create much chaos between his people and negatively affected the majority of the population. This is relevant throughout Balzac and the Little Seamstress as Luo and the narrator endure many hardships. Yet they work through it, eventually turning the tables and working their way around Mao Zedong’s laws. Although these laws affect the majority negatively, Luo and the narrator benefited from Mao Zedong’s decision to ban books, gaining a vast amount of knowledge. The banning of books throughout china, was a strategic plan