The Cultural Revolution was a movement in China during1966-1976. This revolution was a power struggle within the Communist Party of China. This struggle grew to include large portions of Chinese society‚ which eventually brought the People’s Republic of China to the brink of civil war. The revolution was launched by Mao Zedong‚ the Chairman of the Communist Party of China‚ in order to regain control after the Great Leap Forward. During the Great Leap Forward campaign Mao Zedong loss a significant
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CULTURAL EMERGENCY IN INDIA Is India facing what author Salman Rushdie calls a "cultural emergency" with writers‚ painters and filmmakers being targeted by the mob? Consider the events that have made the front pages this week. Leading academic Ashis Nandy is threatened with arrest after he makes controversial remarks about corruption and disadvantaged groups at the popular Jaipur literary festival. Sir Salman himself is asked to stay away from a film promotion and a literary festival in Calcutta
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similarities in classical China and India. Classical India and China were among one of the oldest and most fascinating civilizations that have existed during the Classical period in 1000 B.C.E-600 B.C.E. As both civilizations developed‚ they both showed significant uniqueness. In fact‚ India and China shared many political‚ cultural‚ and economical similarities. But despite their similarities‚ they too acquired distinctive qualities throughout the same categories. To begin with‚ India and China’s political
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Cultural evolution of the early Filipinos Through archaeological records and extensive researches‚ Historians believed that during the Pleistocene Epoch‚ the first settlers of the Philippines . Pleistocene Epoch The first settlers of the Philippines came from the present-day islands of the Malay Archipelago when sea levels were lower‚ creating land bridges to the Southeast Asian mainland. These Paleolithic Hunters May have followed herds of wild animals across these land bridges to
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Looking back today we see that the way that Europeans went about colonization was wrong and corrupt but in their eyes‚ along with the eyes of their fellow conquerors‚ they assumed the right to conquer and colonize through whatever means necessary. The colonization techniques in North America didn’t differ from those in Latin America. Each individual country felt endowed and felt an obligation to colonize and spread their culture and their ways. The encounter involved a variety of natives. There
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by fear and eventual humiliation as its army was vanquished by the Chinese People’s Liberation Army in a bitter and cold battle in the Northeast. Forty years later‚ India has repaired its relationship with the Chinese to some extent‚ but those wounds have not been forgotten. Excuses have been thrown up for the military debacle. India was ill prepared; it believed in non-violence; it trusted the Chinese and in ’Hindi-Chini bhai bhai’. Fingers have been pointed‚ most famously at then prime minister
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Yaqui Religious syncretism Submitted by Jeffrey D Brown Submitted to Robin E. Rickli MA. Instructor People of the Southwest (ANT 306) Northern Arizona University In the first five days after the Jesuit Missionaries came to the Yaqui country‚ they had converted five thousand Yaqui natives. The Yaqui’s have taken this convergence and now have what is considered to be a complex syncretism of their native and Catholic beliefs. One does not have a superiority over the other‚ there is no
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* In 1900‚ India was part of the British Empire; but by the end of 1947‚ India had achieved independence. * For most of the Nineteenth Century‚ India was ruled by the British. India was considered the jewel in the crown of the British Empire. Queen Victoria had been made Empress of India and the British had a major military presence in India. * After 1918‚ nationalism within India intensified. This was probably due to 2 reasons: 1. Many educated nationals in India were far from
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India/China Comparative Essay Hinduism and Buddhism were two very different religions that arose on the subcontinent of India. They were the building blocks of the most populated country in the world and still have lasting impacts today. India’s Hindu and Buddhist roots play a major role in their actions today as a world super power. By extension‚ Hinduism and Buddhism played very different but equally vital roles in the beginnings of India’s modern societal and cultural values. The influences
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The early civilizations of China and India are similar but also quite different to the civilizations of Sumer and Egypt. A common similarity is the use of rivers. Most early civilizations built cities near rivers to gain food‚ water‚ and other necessities‚ this is one common theme between civilizations of China‚ India‚ Sumer‚ and Egypt (Stearns‚ 50). A common difference is the way the emperor/king ruled. In civilizations such as Babylon‚ the ruler created rules to fix family issues and property problems
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