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Keith Schoppa points out the significant changes that Chinesse experienced during the twentieth centuary.Some of this changes include;economy,culture,changes in their government and changing poeples’ lifestyle.The leaders during that time were the main cause of this drastic changes and erratic directions hence kept China into the historical books.Using a variety of well defined images Keith Schoppa brings out primary sources that led to the changes experienced,social and political changes.

Socially,due to rise of nations and nationalism in Asia there was a revolutional movement that was of modernity and ethnicity.It was important in thsat the chinesse had to leave some of the culture they practiced nad had to adopted new cultural practices.The establishment of a military force also a social contribution since provided security hence keeping them together.

Military forces also brought about political effects where the generals had extra powers that contributed to dictatorship, Keith points this out clear when a general destroyed a kinder garden and built a Manson on the site.The military on the other hand helped in stopping the Japanese from exploiting their resources for raw materials.

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Explain effects of the military on both the social and political factors?

State major changes in China during the 20th centuary?

The Man Awakened from Dreams by Henrietta Harrison,its a book that explains the emblematic lifes.In this book he mostly dwells on the peoples’ life who live in the countrysides,this is during the late nineteenth centuary and early twentieth centuary.The author talks of Lui Dapeng who was a provincial degree holder and did not occupy any of the government offices , decline relation between the countryside and the cities was due to the modernization and transformation of confucian ideology.

In Liu’s diary the decline relation is about the following aspects;what was like to study in an academy and to be a schoolteacher,the pressure of changing family relationships,the daily grind of work in industry and agriculture, peoples’ experience with government and life under Japanese occupation.

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In shanxi Village the author also uses the Liu’s diary to us how social structures and ideologies are practiced with a reflection in their daily lifes.During the transitional period from late Qing to the early nation of China,there was intersection of old and new norms ,moral,political and economic spheres.

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What are some of the factors that led to the decline of relation between countryside and the cities?

Describe Liu Dapeng character how its brought out in the context?

Edward Friedman in the Chinese village socialist state,decribes the social change in North China by deeply describing how the lifes of peasant Chinese evolved during the period of war and revolution.The authors go ahead and gather information by interviewing,visiting archives and investigating villages with extreme resources,cultures and traditions.

By analyzing this data the authors find out that revolution resulted due to cultural disintergration and desperations in the economic growth.The communist leaders also adopted some changes that led to the economic gain and cultural healing.

The Yu Hua brothers talk about a China which has never being seen before after its forty years of rough and rumble Chinesse history and from the madness of cultural revolution to the equal rabid madness of extreme materialism. They illustrate how life was during the culture revolution where they lived in a closed society in that everything was crazy and black and white and if one was on the wrong side was dead.there was no stage for persons but only the government.

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State some of the changes that took place in the North China?

Was cultural revolution of advantage for China,explain by giving examples?

What are the Yu Hau brothers illustrating in the context?

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