Sentences with phrase «1960s cultural revolution»

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At a rare press conference following Bo Xilai's dismissal, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao warned that without further reform China risked plunging into another «tragedy» like the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, when an aged Chairman Mao Zedong rallied peasants, workers and students to upend the social order as a way to vanquish his opponents.

Jean - Louis Margolin tells us in The Black Book that twenty million died in that system after the Communist victory in 1949; twenty million others during the Great Leap Forward of 1959 — 61; and many thousands more during the Great Cultural Revolution of the 1960s.

The cultural revolutions of the 1960s, especially the sexual revolution, have continued.

To be sure, removing crosses is not as devastating as China's closing and crushing of churches during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and»70s.

To deny it is to deny that there was a cultural - sexual revolution launched in the 1910s and resumed in the 1960s, or else to claim that it was not about anything of importance.

In China, religious institutions were shut down by the Red Guards in the 1960s and 1970s as part of the Cultural Revolution.

The Souls Of ChinaIan Johnson Allen LaneBefore Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 70s, scholars used to talk about religion in China as «diffused».

A quantum leap in this development came with the cultural revolution that began in the 1960s.

I don't need to recount the cultural revolutions of the 1960s.

Marxist — Leninist atheism is a form of atheism which holds that the essence of religion should be abolished.In China, religious institutions were shut down by the Red Guards in the 1960s and 1970s as part of the Cultural Revolution.

The Souls Of ChinaIan Johnson Allen LaneBefore Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 70s,... More

The Souls Of ChinaIan Johnson Allen LaneBefore Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 70s, scholars used to talk about religion in China as... More

Matthew Bowman, an editor at a Mormon studies journal called Dialogue, says Romney appears to embody the Mormon retrenchment of the 1960s and 1970s, when the LDS church defined itself largely in opposition to the broader American culture, which was seeing cultural upheaval and the sexual revolution.

First, Ezra Vogel's magisterial biography Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of Modern China, about the man who reinvented the country after the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, and then Julia Lovell's The Opium War, which charted the clash between Britain and China that first started the confrontation between west and east:

Yet the 1960s student and cultural revolutions saw a spectacular re-emergence of anarchist ideas and principles, and its influence today can be felt in movements as diverse as the Zapatistas in Mexico and Occupy Wall Street.

Focusing on a hundred characters, and several main ones, the whole story is carried out over two time - lines: from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, the end of the Cultural Revolution; and from the 1980s to the start of the 21st century.

The educational system in Shanghai — and in China at large — has undergone several stages of development: the rigid Russian model during the 1950s, a period of «renaissance» in the early 1960s, disastrous damage during the Cultural Revolution (1966 — 1976), rapid expansion of basic education during the 1980s and 1990s, and in the 21st century a move toward higher education that is widely accessible to students across the entire country (OECD, 2010).

Wolf Totem is set in 1960s China - the time of the Great Leap Forward, on the eve of the Cultural Revolution.

What cultural revolutions are captured in the novel, from Britain's colonial era through the aftermath of the 1960s?

Women Art Revolution elaborates the relationship of the Feminist Art Movement of the 1960s anti-war and civil rights movement and explains how historical events, such as the all - male protest exhibition against the invasion of Cambodia, sparked the first of many feminist actions against major cultural institutions.

All Divided Selves 9.30 pm The social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s were spearheaded by the charismatic, guru - like figure of Glasgow born psychiatrist R.D. Laing.

The social and cultural revolutions of the 1960s were spearheaded by the charismatic, guru - like figure of Glasgow born psychiatrist R.D. Laing.

In the 1950s and 1960s, London underwent a cultural revolution, which altered forever the trajectory of contemporary art and gave rise to a radical re-formulation of artistic production.

As one of the few female Chinese artists to emerge from the generation born in the 1960s and to come of age during the Cultural Revolution, Lin Tianmiao's rise to international prominence in 1990s is in itself significant.

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