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6 pages in length. The extent to which the stories in Ha Jin's "The Bridegroom" illustrate how much a century of revolution changed China and the Chinese speaks to the vastly revised perspectives upon such issues as love, sexual pleasure, food, family, fairness, wealth, success, education, friendship and simple survival. Ha Jin clearly shows how Chinese culture has been granted a measure of immunity to much of the upheavals associated with Mao's revolution and Deng's reforms; however, that is not to say that China and her people are completely exempt from facing new challenges of contemporary society today. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Chinese speaks to the vastly revised perspectives upon such issues as love, sexual pleasure, food, family, fairness, wealth, success, education, friendship and simple survival. Ha Jin clearly shows how
Chinese culture has been granted a measure of immunity to much of the upheavals associated with Maos revolution and Dengs reforms; however, that is not to say that China and
her people are completely exempt from facing new challenges of contemporary society today. Since 1949, the unprecedented political institution of democracy was established
as a means by which to overthrow Chinas historically oppressive Communist regime. While this political change was somewhat modified through the subsequent years, it received a resurrection in 1976
with the decline and ultimate death of Mao Zedong. Under Maoist rule, the slogan "Better Red Than Expert" came to exemplify the importance of standing true to Chinas
economic and political determination rather than being educated. Education became a casualty of Maos Communist reign, where the populace struggled to secure employment that somehow reflected their previous training.
Obtaining any kind of education during Maos command proved extremely difficult to achieve, inasmuch as "the entire education system was shut down and the job of teaching the children
fell to the grandparents" (Social Revolution and Students), which forced people to become more focused upon national loyalty rather than upon the opportunities inherent to education. Jin depicts that
today, however, securing an education in China is not only tantamount to establishing ones entire future but also a choice that people have finally earned through the vision of democracy.
Jin illustrates how democracy is has become necessary for Chinas modernization since the Revolution, inasmuch as the fundamental essence of modernization is to
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