Boo-boo - Wei Jing Sheng
Wei Jing Sheng
http://laplace.compbio.ucsf.edu/~bosco/wei.html: Go to the Web site. Read the article, then answer these questions:
1. What are the four modernizations?
2. What is Democracy Wall?
3. Click the link that says “Fifth Modernisation.” Then scroll down to the section that says, “Why Democracy?” Answer this question: Why does he believe democracy is the best form of government for China?
http://www.moreorless.au.com/heroes/wei.html: Go to the Web site. Read the article and answer these questions:
1. Who were the enemies of the state? What happened to them?
2. What is the Great Leap Forward? What did it accomplish?
3. What is social chaos? What kind of chaos did the Red Guards cause?
4. What did Wei Jing Sheng try to do to create change in China?
http://weijingsheng.org/wei/en.html: Go to the Web site and answer these questions:
1. How long was Wei Jing in jail? Why?
2. How did he learn about the effects of communism?
3. Where does he live now? Is he still working for the Chinese people?
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Wei/wei-con0.html: Go to the Web site. Click on “Political Activist.” Then answer the following questions:
1. What were the origins of Wei Jing’s understanding of democracy?
2. What are characteristics of a good leader?
3. Did communism fail because of poor leaders?
http://www.echonyc.com/~wei/: Go to the Web site. Click on “WeiJing Sheng: China’s Spirit of Democracy” NEXT click on “Wei’s Essay and Articles.” THEN click on “20th Century Bastille.” Then answer these questions:
1. How was food distributed to the prisoners? Was it done fairly?
2. How was exercise used as a way to control prisoners?
3. What kinds of torture were used in the prison?
http://laplace.compbio.ucsf.edu/~bosco/wei.html: Go to the Web site. Read the article, then answer these questions:
1. What are the four modernizations?
2. What is Democracy Wall?
3. Click the link that says “Fifth Modernisation.” Then scroll down to the section that says, “Why Democracy?” Answer this question: Why does he believe democracy is the best form of government for China?
http://www.moreorless.au.com/heroes/wei.html: Go to the Web site. Read the article and answer these questions:
1. Who were the enemies of the state? What happened to them?
2. What is the Great Leap Forward? What did it accomplish?
3. What is social chaos? What kind of chaos did the Red Guards cause?
4. What did Wei Jing Sheng try to do to create change in China?
http://weijingsheng.org/wei/en.html: Go to the Web site and answer these questions:
1. How long was Wei Jing in jail? Why?
2. How did he learn about the effects of communism?
3. Where does he live now? Is he still working for the Chinese people?
http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people/Wei/wei-con0.html: Go to the Web site. Click on “Political Activist.” Then answer the following questions:
1. What were the origins of Wei Jing’s understanding of democracy?
2. What are characteristics of a good leader?
3. Did communism fail because of poor leaders?
http://www.echonyc.com/~wei/: Go to the Web site. Click on “WeiJing Sheng: China’s Spirit of Democracy” NEXT click on “Wei’s Essay and Articles.” THEN click on “20th Century Bastille.” Then answer these questions:
1. How was food distributed to the prisoners? Was it done fairly?
2. How was exercise used as a way to control prisoners?
3. What kinds of torture were used in the prison?
posted by Marvine Stamatakis at 9:44 AM
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WEI JING SHENG
The four modernizations are agriculture, science and technology, industry, and defense.
Democracy wall was a wall that full of political tracts that critized the China’s government. It appeared on a wall overlooking one of the busiest thouroughfares in Beijing.
Why democracy?
Because people could be a master of their own destiny and it will bring happiness to the people. He also wanted to get rid people of the self-exalting autocrat which was Mao Zedong.
What is democracy? True democracy means the holding of power by the laboring masses. Are laborers unqualified to hold power? Yugoslavia has taken this road and proved to us that even without dictatorial rulers, big or small, the people can work even better.
What is true democracy? It means the right of the people to choose their own representatives to work according to their will and in their interests. Only this can be called democracy. Furthermore, the people must also have the power to replace their representatives anytime so that these representatives cannot go on deceiving theirs in the name of the people. This is the kind of democracy enjoyed by people in European and American countries. In accordance with their will, they could run such people as Nixon, de Gaulle, and Tanaka out of office. They can reinstate them if they want, and nobody can interfere with their democratic rights. In China, however, if a person even comments on the already dead Great Helmsman Mao Zedong or the Great Man without peers in history, jail will be ready for him with open door and various unpredictable calamities may befall him. What a vast different will it be if we compare the socialist system of centralized democracy with the system of capitalist "exploiting class!"
The enemies of the state :
Foreigners and Christian missionaries are branded as spies. Landlords and wealthy peasants are stripped of their land. Intellectuals, scientists, professionals, artists and writers are forced into "self-criticism" and public confessions of their failings in relation to communist ideals.
The great leap forward :
Mao Zedong ( the leader of CCP) launches the 'Great Leap Forward' to accelerate the development of all sectors of the economy at once. Breaking with the development theories practiced in the Soviet Union and applied to China during the first five year plan, the Great Leap Forward seeks to simultaneously develop industry and agriculture by employing surplus rural labour on either vast infrastructure projects or for small-scale, farm-based industries - the so-called "backyard furnaces".
RED GUARDS :
1966 - Millions of school and university students are organised into the 'Red Guards' to publicly criticise those in the party who are considered by Mao and his supporters to be "'left' in form but 'right' in essence".
Fresh out of junior middle school, the 16-year-old Wei joins the Red Guards as an enthusiastic supporter of the Cultural Revolution. He leaves Beijing and travels throughout north and northwest China, seeing for himself the effects of communism and the Cultural Revolution on the people.
His experiences mark the beginning of his reassessment of the communist system. "I was waking from a dream," he later writes, "But I was waking in darkness."
In October the 'Quotations from Chairman Mao' (The Little Red Book) is published. Instilled with revolutionary fervour
In October the 'Quotations from Chairman Mao' (The Little Red Book) is published. Instilled with revolutionary fervour and guided by 'The Little Red Book', the Red Guards create havoc within the party and widespread social chaos.
Schools, colleges and universities are closed. Virtually all engineers, managers, scientists, technicians, and other professionals are "criticised," demoted or "sent down" to the countryside to "participate in labour". Many are jailed. Management of factories is placed in the hands of ill-equipped revolutionary committees. As a result, the country experiences a 14% decline in industrial production in 1967.
What he had done to create change in China :
He began to place anonymous posters criticising the government on a section of wall near Tianenmen Square in Beijing, the so-called ‘Democracy wall’.
He writes his essay ‘the 5th modernisation : Democracy and other issues in one night.
Wei and a group of other activist began to publish an underground magazine called ‘Exploration’ which they pledge will discuss social problems “without any restrictions".
In Jail :
He was sentenced to jail twice for a total of more than 18 years due to his democracy activities, including a ground breaking and well publicized essay he wrote in 1978 : “the fifth modernization”.
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