Sentences with phrase «a cultural revolution»

«It's set during Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, and kicks off when an alien race decides to invade Earth after the Chinese government covertly sends a signal into space,» Business Insider explains.

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.

Perhaps if Mao hadn't struck down an entire generation in the Cultural Revolution and China had started integrating its economy and ambitions 20 years earlier, that hard and soft power might have been assembled.

In the years to come, Li invested in local real estate as others sold, most notably in 1967, when riots inspired by Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution in China rocked Hong Kong and sent property prices plunging.

-- call to mind China's Cultural Revolution in the 1950s and 60s when denunciations of liberalism or elitism were common and led to a huge death toll.

Named one of the «Top 10 Great Places to Retire» by AARP, Asheville is experiencing a major cultural revolution, with the addition of new residents, restaurants, live music, and a vibrant arts community.

After devastating famine in the late 1950s followed by social upheavals of the Cultural Revolution in the»60s and»70s, China turned to a more pragmatic approach to economic development when Deng Xiaoping ascended to power at the end of that period.

How did this girl, born into modest means to communist survivors of China's Cultural Revolution, transform into an international superstar and win the «invited status» she can now flaunt, to the overwhelmingly male and European Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture?

The film's title refers to the difficult years of China's Cultural Revolution, which Guo Pei's parents — a batalion leader in the People's Army, and her mother, a kindergarten teacher, whom we meet in the film — lived through.

The embroiderers were known for being particularly extraordinary; Guo Pei has changed history because, during the Cultural Revolution, that skill was stopped, so people in the area lost the skill of embroidery; and now that she's brought it back, there's even a woman in her studio whose great grandmother was one of the embroiderers in the last dynasty.

This anxiety, Zhang says, stems from the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976), when friends and family members were pitted against one another and millions of Chinese were killed in political struggles.

MEET THE CHINESE SENIOR CITIZEN WHO PUT HIMSELF UP FOR ADOPTION «Han Zicheng survived the Japanese invasion, the Chinese civil war and the Cultural Revolution, but he knew he could not endure the sorrow of living alone.»

During the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976, the wealthy Chinese were often flogged and publicly ridiculed.

Another elite echoed this view and also pointed to the younger generation's more limited knowledge of China's ups and downs in general, including the Cultural Revolution and the Great Leap Forward.

In 1992 the Los Angeles Times reported on the first McDonald's store in Beijing under the headline «A Cultural Revolution in Beijing, via Golden Arches».

Han Zicheng survived the Japanese invasion, the Chinese civil war and the Cultural Revolution, but he knew he could not endure the sorrow of living...

In China, we have seen how rigid compliance with regime orthodoxy has led to political and policy disasters, whether during the Cultural Revolution and Tiananmen, or on contemporary issues of environment, national minorities, and corruption, many of which still can not be discussed openly.

«Many people wanted to «return to the countryside,»» recalls Liu, referring to a Cultural Revolution - era program that sent urban youths to rural China in order to work on farms.

Born 1965 in Beijing, she suffered through Mao's Cultural Revolution.

During the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution some science was considered bourgeois, some not, but many scientists found themselves assigned to work in places like laundries.

He will be the highest - ranking national church leader arrested since the Cultural Revolution.»

The sexual revolution is very different from the political and cultural revolutions advocated by Hitler.

Placing themselves under the banner of cultural revolution, they have turned themselves into creatures of a subculture.

Mao Tse Tung didn't carry out the Cultural Revolution for religious reasons.

They talk about how during the Cultural Revolution, the Christian population in Wenzhou actually grew many times over.

When the Cultural Revolution ended, it was as if my parents» generation had just woken up from a dream: It turned out the man they had worshipped as the Red Sun itself was nothing but a cruel and petty dictator who led a wanton and dissolute life.

We have experienced Suez, the end of Apartheid, the horrors of Pol Pot, Mao's unhinged Cultural Revolution, the murderous attack on Manhattan in 2001, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the extraordinary drama of Communism's fall.

In Camelot and the Cultural Revolution, James Piereson argues that the answer is, in the main, no.

Unfortunately, in the process, the Soviet cultural revolution was thrown to the wolves; but this aesthete can in any case hardly have thought any more highly of it than did J. V. Stalin)

The point, however, is not to demolish its promises but to take them literally and to show that they can be met only through a cultural revolution.

The indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere, having been wiped out at not even having a chance at knowing god, would not have been there at the time of Christopher Columbus» voyage: thus, the cultural revolution that occurred in the Americas would have to have never happened.

Persecution was most intense during the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976), years when Christian faith could become a death warrant, as it was for Chinese pastor Wang Zhiming, executed in 1973.

In the China of the Cultural Revolution, wall newspapers functioned like an electronic mass medium — at least in the big towns.

A church worker in Beijing repeated to me the tale of a church that had worshipped in a cave during the Cultural Revolution.

So long as the cultural revolution has the initiative, the social imagination of the masses overcomes even technical backwardness and transforms the function of the old media so that their structures are exploded.

Millions of Chinese will testify to the gross injustices they suffered under the cultural revolution, which was the most serious effort thus far to make of China a radically socialist society.

After the communist revolution in 1949 and especially after the cultural revolution, the Christian Church in China suffered much; in fact, many thought that the Christian Church in China had come to an end.

The illusion that Christian institutions can survive based on unspoken assumptions of shared beliefs has been shattered by cultural revolution and legal transformation.

Even the Cultural Revolution wasn't flying under an atheist flag.

There are many new technologies which have made possible the cultural revolution that is now taking place in almost every part of life globally.

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.

Look at the deadly gulags and purges of the USSR, the deadly Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward of Mao, and the deadly Year Zero of Pol Pot, all which Marx's writings inspired... and all occurring within the past century (and people still prefer to make a stink about the Crusades that happened 1000 years ago).

The Bolsheviks in the early phases of the Russian Revolution offer another example, and China during the Cultural Revolution also pursued the goal of equality quite intensely.

It has been reckoned that, in addition to the 87 million lives taken in the wars of this century, an additional 80 million were deliberately killed or starved to death in Hitler's death camps, Stalin's labor camps, Mao's cultural revolution and the «killing - fields» of Cambodia.2 So much for the advanced civilization of the twentieth century.

What de-moderated our modernity was the sexual / cultural revolution of the 60s: it claimed there was little need any more to restrain ourselves with respect to sex, scarcity, and conformity.

The book brings together a stunning array of past and present social commentary and data, making it an invaluable resource for putting «cultural revolution (s)» in context.

Himmelfarb is especially strong on religion as the first of our political in stitutions (Tocqueville), and be lieves that we are currently witnessing a Great Awakening that, while it may not prevail as a counterrevolution against the elite cultural revolutions of this century, can provide a «modest reformation» that contains and tempers their excesses.

In response to the Cultural Revolution of the «60s and «70s, religious Americans also began choosing sides.

After its defeat, Kemal Ataturk turned his country into a modern secular state by means of a far - reaching cultural revolution.

I am a Christian, I did not like the fact Perry had the meeting at Reliant Stadium, or the comments made to Mitt, but as an older person, which you are probably not, you do not remember the Khmer Rouge or the Cultural Revolution or the bread lines in Russia, or the purge of Eritrea and Tigre (just a few) atheistic oppressive societies with little hope or caring.