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From this reading, The Legacy Lingers On, I thought it was a easy understanding homework to do. It was well organized into different sections so the readers knew what the topics were based on. It was very detailed and had many examples for the readers to understand the context. As history repeats, I believe that the society is developing stronger.
 * Please take a couple of minutes to respond to the reading. What stood out for you? What do you think of it, is it exaggerated? 2.20 **

Pooh is very calm, positive, and simple minded. He keeps everything to himself but doesn't keep it with him for a long period of time. He believes that everything should be the way it is, therefore he represents the "Uncarved Block- Life is fun," the Taoist. Pooh is simple and remains simple. On the other hand Piglet thinks deeply about certain topics and questions about different topics which represents questioner about the philosophy. Piglet depends on others, which makes him a follower.
 * If Rabbit is too smart for his won good, Owl is the Brain and Piglet... Pooh...? 2.23 **

Taoist believes that rulers should take the role of ruling because of the main belief of not going against nature. Also, the inner nature, not being clever, not trying, the rulers should just practice the Wu Wei. However, a ruler should be ruling because the rulers job is to have charge of the society and thus the rulers should care about what is going on. Either that there should not be a ruler, since there is no point of having one if he is not caring about the society and caring for it. -Go with the flow.  **Explain right mindfulness and right concentration. Do you see how you could apply this to your daily life? Why or why not?** Right mindfulness is being aware of oneself and focused on what is going on at each particular moment. Right concentration is focusing on objects or concepts as part of meditation to develop further personally. To see the world how it is. We are able to apply right mindfulness because when we are meditating, we are focused on one thing and can relax our mind. This can be applied in our daily life since we become aware of ourselves; the moment, even rights, and etc. Also, how you act and speak can be applied to our lives.  The British Professor probably felt 400 years during the development of Japan. Japan built itself modernized, adapted and stayed equal with them Westerns. Since Japan was successful developing in a rapid speed; developing something that could of been done in 400 years. Therefore the Japanese society developed in a rapid speed.
 *  The Tao says that the ruler should "rule by inaction" How do you make sense of this? Is it at all possible? 2.26 **
 *  In describing Japanese development, a British Professor in 1873 declared that he felt 400 years old by the end of the century. Explain the historical context behind this quote. 4.1**

**What do you find most shocking about what you have read so far? How do make sense of such cruelty? 4.13** What I found shocking about the Rape of Nanking was that Japanese had isolated itself from the other countries. Though Japan was powerful, they were the ones who just got themselves in a war with China. Japanese soldiers were trained at a young age on how to kill others. Japan went out to Nanking a started to shoot the citizens randomly. The dead bodies were not burried nor burned, they were thrown in the Yangtze river. Also, with their well developed weapons, elder, and even children were attacked. The Chinese father and son had to raped their family member infront of their family.

 ** Do countries have an obligation to compensate each other for injustices done in time of war? 4.30** Countries have the right to compensate each others injustice that was done over war periods. For example, in the reading War, War War, the police were seeking for Lee's husband because he was Christian. However, Lee was the one to go to jail because of this. Since there were damages made to different families and countries, there should be compensates for the injures. There is a limit to create damages. -Japan and Korea: Japan created a large damage to those who were innocent.

What did the U.S. have to consider in regards to China and the Yalu River? America was not informed about the Yalu River. They were not sure whether China would march to Korea or not. China stated that they would invade Korea if the US kept provoking them. According to the reading, what was the reason China entered the war? The main reason China had helped North Korea during the war was because Korea had helped China out during different wars when China needed support. Chinese had volunteered to help Korea. What effect did Chinese intervention have on the US, ROK, and UN troops? 5.07 With the strength of China, the Red army was able to move Americas, South Koreans and UN troops. The three troop lacked power and moved down. After the Chinese helping the Red army, this had created the 38 parallel, which separated South and North Korea.

 Explain the meaning of "Shattered Faith" how does it relate to the story? 5.10.09 The meaning of Shattered Faith is about a character losing his/ her faith through out the war. Hong believes that her life would become better, which ends out the opposite as she wished. On of Hong's faith thought got shattered is religious beliefs. She was a Christian during the beginning of the story. However, she was could not relay everything based on religious, she was concerned about her family and herself. She was not end ups as a true Christian because of the harsh life she had during the war. Therefore Hong's view of religion shattered. Couldn't relate on Christianity; her behavior changed and lost motivation.

Explain what the main ideas of the last few paragraphs are, evaluate Biao's reasons for the revolution. Does his argument sense? Is it reasonable? 5.26.09 The couple last paragraph states the reasoning of Biao's belief in revolution. He states that his source should be the one attacking first. "... rebel against the people...Therefore, we must go for them an strike at them. If we do not attack them, they will attack us..." Bioa is satying that before the others make a move, they should take the step forward and be the one who is attacking first. He also believes that taking the first attack would be able to help his power. Biao believes that citizens should not be afraid of the chaos, they should have faith and adopt a correct attitude toward the deviations and mistakes that may occur. In the end, Biao states that the world would relay on the young gerneration since they are the one whom takes the lead. I agree to Biao's idea because he states that new changes can bring the society to develop. However there is a limit to where the changes can occur.

Hand out 7 B, D, E, F, ? 6.2.09 B: Changes during the summer during the 1966 Describes the weeks of Cult. Revolution Between 1966 Form people what was going on People reactions Up war of the revolutionists More began to involve Mao and Chinese communist party Propaganda Place indoor, schools Students worked as employees Different types of propaganda, drum, gong, songs, Climax: people believed in devoted followers Guards would block doors with posters- didn’t turn into a follower of Mao Stores, streets were all labeled with something about the red guards More turned into Mao Beginning of the revolution Mao used propaganda to brainwash the citizens

E: Red guards smash the 4 olds Written by the red guards in Beijing at school: students Beginning of the Cult. Revolution Force of the importance Tell people what to do To have revolutionary spirits Gives a plan of what they need to do to bring Mao’s idea Destroy old ideology Red book: buy and study it Required people to have pictures and quotes of Mao at home Youth had vision for China

F: Burning books Member of the Black yang’s: against the red guards 1916 The red guards remove books Real size Abused the members Shows the truth of the red guards Docs and information were destroyed First hand experience that weren’t part of the red guards Happened in Beijing

?: Newspaper Chinese government in 1966 Against western and anti-communists Capitalistic and burned ancient books Mao’s will was to bring the lower classes together Chinese government: portray the education

Responding to images -against religion -Buddhism and Confucianism -old culture -beating people -shaved -steeped on others -anti Mao -didn't fallow the rules -Nuns

__Questions on Reflections on the Cultural Revolution pages 82-84__ June 4, 2009 1) When was this document written and by whom? CCP Central Committee June 27, 1981(5 years after the Cultural Revolution) 2) According to the document, who was largely to blame for the excesses and mistakes of the Cultural Revolution? The document states that it was Lin Biao, Jiang Qing, and others who were placed in important positions by Comrade Mao Zedong. They were blamed because they were not fallowing Mao's idea; went behind Mao creating chaos. 3) What errors does the CCP believe Mao was responsible for? Cultural Revolution proved that Mao's principle theses for intimating this revolution conformed neither to Marxian-Leninism nor to the Chinese reality. Also they believed that Mao committed many cromese behind Lin Biao and Jiang Qing's back, brining disaster to the country and people. 4) Who seems most responsible according to the document? How does this play into the memory of Mao as a leader and his Cult of Personality? Though Mao was the leader and the cause of the revolution the view towards Mao was not negative. However the viewing for Lin Biao and Jiang Qing was negative. From this document the readers can view that since Mao was the leader of China, he was a father like figure and the citizens did not go against Mao. -Place the two leaders in an important spot and let them go behind his back -Ended up announcing Marixts priciple 5) What does the CCP believe the consequences of the Cultural Revolution are? (4 of them) each person in your group read one, and explain it to others 1.That there were no rights or wrongs and therefore they persecute whom they liked. There were both possitive and negative effects. -Struggle of Nationalism -Created Confusion -Went against the political and social structures 2.Lian Biao and Jian Qing were once the leader of the party. However they were enimes and confussionims had curupted. They did stuff behing Maos back. -Let them be attacked -Led to chaos 3. The third one is about directly relying on the masses. Party organizations were at different levels were attacked and became partially wholly paralysed. -Led to movements that attacked the parties 4.Revolution did not change anything in terms of successes. The party, people political power, military and the Chinese society remained unchanged. Since it is unchanged, people thus think that their Party and socialist system are both strong. 6) Why do you think the document mentions achievements made by China during the Cultural Revolution? Since the revolution took place in China, the document mentions the achievenments showing how China developed after the revolution. Also this is portarying the achivements of China. Lastly China was able to handle the antil-revolutionaries. 7) Describe the tone at the end of the document. Why do you think it ends this way? The tone of the document at the ending was different from how it had started. The document ended with a bright way talking about how China was able to gain through the Cultural Revolution. The document also makes the Cultural Revolution look successful.