e whole population to help. All other work and schooling stopped. There was a new quota for each unit to produce. Blancarte 3Children would search the streets for anything that they could melt down to make steel. School mates would compete with each other to see who could bring in more. Home cooking was no longer allowed, all pots and pans were to be melted down, along with all other house hold items of any use.Eventually over time the communities realized how much they disliked this, and eventually The Great Leap Forward caused famine across the nation. It was as though Maos ignorance was loosing its prestige. Mao felt as though certain plays, novels and poems wee written against him specifically, and that they were the Ghost Dramas, because he thought the ghost avengers were the class enemies that died under his rule (273). So, in result, Mao set up a witch hunt, for all those play writers, poets and critics out there against him. Mao wanted to punish those who were not being loyal to him. They coined the term capitalist-roaders for all of them and declared war on them. The Chung family felt the wrath of this war because of the fact that both of Jungs parents held positions in certain departments of the communist party.Blancarte 4Jung Chang does a spectacular job bringing out the history of China through the novel Wild Swans. History is told to be interesting to those who have taken an interest in it. This novel does exactly that by bringing the reader closer to the hard times of the new born communist China, and its ups and downs along the way. ...
