#The daily struggle session trial

Instructors may wish to draw comparisons with social and political movements in other societies, such as the civil rights movements in the U.S.

#The daily struggle session trial

For this reason, the trial resonates with many other situations across time and place. While it is tempting to characterize the trial of Wang Shiwei as an illustration of the fate awaiting free-thinking intellectuals in a repressive state, it is clear from the questions raised in the first session that the Wang Shiwei trial epitomizes the difficulty of voicing a minority opinion, especially when that opinion is pitted against a more powerful entity such as the state. While the game itself does not presume to replicate the exact process of a “political struggle session,” it affords students a glimpse of the workings of mob psychology, where rational thinking gives way to mass frenzy. Through writing and speaking exercises, students will put into practice the unique political discourses of Chinese communism, the rhetorical effect of which directly impacted the daily lives of people for the next sixty years. Students will also gain an in depth understanding of the course of the Rectification Campaign in Yan’an that allowed the CCP to establish complete ideological control over its followers. Through this unit, students will gain a fundamental knowledge of an internal conflict that deeply affected the Chinese Communist Party during a critical period of the Communist movement in China. The unit features a role-playing component (class sessions two and three), during which the students re-enact the trial but with outcomes that may differ from what actually took place in history. Leaders of young social and political movements often worry that their movements are vulnerable in 1942, these feelings led to the tragic trial of Wang Shiwei. demonstrates the sense of vulnerability that characterized the Chinese Communist Party in the early 1940s.offers a case for discussing the role of literature in society and.dramatizes one of the key moral choices China has faced under the Communists: the choice between collective well-being on the one hand and individual rights and freedom on the other.foreshadowed the modus operandi of many ideological campaigns of the later People’s Republic of China.The trial had many long-reaching repercussions for the Chinese communist movement.

This teaching unit leads students through an exploration of a significant event in the early Chinese communist movement: the trial of Wang Shiwei in 1942.