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Context of production
Context of production considers the social, historical, and cultural conditions in which a text is created. It considers elements such as the author’s background, historical influences, the dominant ideas and attitudes of the time the text is set, and so.
Li Cunxin talks about his incredible story of bravery, courage and determination on how he overcame adversity to become one of the world's best ballet dancers.
- Li’s Story
From bitter poverty to the stardom of the West - this is the extraordinary true story of one boy’s great courage and determination. - 'Mao’s Last Dancer’ Li Cunxin honoured with an Order of Australia
Li Cunxin has had a distinguished career, first as a dancer, then as a stockbroker, author and as Artistic Director of Queensland Ballet. He now adds the title Order of Australia to his list of achievements.
- China - Government and SocietyClick on the Table of Contents, then click on Government and Society to open document.
- Chinese CultureChina is the most populous country in the world and has the second largest land area. Its cultural influence is felt throughout the Asian region and has impacted the world on a large scale through the arts, sciences, cuisine, production and trade.
- The social context of ageing and intergenerational relationships in Chinese families
China is a very specific case as the demographic transition from a youthful society to an ageing one took place at an earlier stage of economic development than in most richer countries and has happened much faster. - China's staggering 40 years of change in picturesForty years ago, China introduced major economic reforms - lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and leading to it becoming the second-largest economy in the world.
- 40 Years of Social Change in China... opening up to the outside world, and the initiation of the economic reforms that have created the Chinese economic “miracle.”
- Cultural Revolution, 50 years onChina issued a top directive calling on its people to rid society of “members of the bourgeoisie threatening to seize political power from the proletariat” – marking the start of a decade-long violent class struggle.
Mao Zedong swimming in a river in 1966.
- China's cultural revolution, 1966-1976A social experiment aimed at suppressing counterrevolutionaries and purifying the Chinese Communist Party launched in 1966...
- Cultural Revolution Campaigns (1966-1976)Articles as well as propaganda posters used during the cultural revolution.
- Cultural Revolution: causes, costs, background and forces and people behind itThe Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-76), as the Cultural Revolution was officially known, was a 10-year social political movement initiated to strengthen Maoism in China by eliminating capitalist, feudalistic and cultural elements through an ideological campaign aimed at reviving revolutionary spirit and purging the country of "impure" elements.
Timeline
- China profile - A chronology of key eventsA timeline of historical events in China from ca1700 to 2021
History of change
- The Cultural Revolution and the History of TotalitarianismBeginning in 1966, Mao Zedong, who had withdrawn somewhat into the background of the Chinese leadership in the previous years, marshalled the youth of China in a new campaign against supposed party deviationists and class enemies.
- The rise of China... today's leadership is the inheritor of a proud history and a distinct tradition.
Beyond the stage-managed pomp, though, China is unrecognisable from 1949. - China's Great Leap Forward, 1958-1961In an effort to transform China's agrarian economy into an industrialized communist society, the Chinese Communist Party passed the "General Line of the Great Leap Forward" on May 1958 and began the people’s commune movement and the drive to increase steel production.
- China’s Great Leap ForwardIn 1958, Chairman Mao launched a radical campaign to outproduce Great Britain, mother of the Industrial Revolution, while simultaneously achieving Communism before the Soviet Union. But the fanatical push to meet unrealistic goals led to widespread fraud and intimidation, culminating not in record-breaking output but the starvation of approximately one in twenty Chinese.
- China's 40 years of economic reform that opened the country up and turned it into a superpowerForty years ago, in December 1978, following a decade of the Cultural Revolution led by Mao Zedong that left the communist country in ruins, a series of transformative economic reforms opened China up to the international community and foreign investment.
- China Before and After XiThe Chinese success story starting from the economic reforms of the 1970s and modernization undertaken by the ‘architect of Modern China’ Deng Xiaoping, seemed like bringing Zhou’s prophecy to life.
- The history of the People’s Republic of China – through 70 years of mass paradesTraditionally in China, 70 is an auspicious number. A person who reaches 70 is considered “rare and precious” (guxi 古稀) and the 70th birthday is worth a big celebration.
- 40 years of reform and opening up in China
The rapid economic growth emerged from the vision late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, who introduced capitalist reforms into a communist planned economy in 1978. In the 40 years since Deng’s ‘reform and opening up policy,’ China has completely transformed.
Ghosh, I. (2021, May 21). 70 years of China’s economic growth in one chart. Visual Capitalist. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/china-economic-growth-history/
- Reform and opening in China, 1978-China's policy of reform and opening not only led to a dramatic transformation of its economy, but also reshaped the dynamic of international relations through the end of the Cold War and after.
- China’s Agricultural and Industrial Reforms in the Late 1970sThere were pressing economic issues that preoccupied Deng in the spring and summer of 1979. First was the urgent need to reform China’s dysfunctional agricultural sector, and second was the need to introduce concrete productivity-enhancing incentives and quality control standards in industry, science, and technology.
- History and CultureShandong has been one of the political, economic and cultural centres of China since ancient times.
- ShandongShandong (Simplified Chinese: 山东; Traditional Chinese: 山東; pinyin: Shāndōng; Wade-Giles: Shan-tung) is a province of the People's Republic of China, located on the eastern coast of the country. The province is located at the lower reaches of the Huanghe (Yellow River) and extends out to sea in the form of the Shandong Peninsula.
- ShandongWebsite detailing information about Shandong.
From the Kinolibrary archive film collections.
Life in China, Far East.
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Mao Zedong
Deng Xiaoping