does china's revolution make anyone else hate history?

[Spreadbury]

we're only up to the shanghai massacre, mao's been mentioned twice and that's part of Li Dazhao's study group and the formation of the CCP yet my notes on China are already longer than my notes on Russia. I will say that china's more captivating than russia though

[Hye]

Haha the chinese revs textbook seems somewhat thicker than the russian revs textbook i have (HTAV). We just started the Chinese revolution today. Chinese revs seems sooo interesting, i'm actually looking forward to studying this for the rest of the year What work have you done yet? or have you been following the questions from your textbook?

[Spreadbury]

we've finished the shanghai massacre. and we're using HTAV too

[Hye]

we're really behind... we missed quite a few classes during the term, especially a whole week off for exams. How many SACS have you done so far?

[Spreadbury]

none for china. but our first one is next week on monday through to friday. it's going to be the most relaxed sac, our teacher's not even there for the whole week...

[ben92]

I always found China a lot more linear and simple in its narrative.

[Spreadbury]

I dunno, I find china more complicated because there's twice as much to remember. it's a pretty disappointing communist revolution. we cover a course from 1898 - 1976 and not until the mid-1950's is there any true indication of communism. and then they try and leap to communism in 5 years.

[ben92]

Actually I'd agree it is more to remember. I just found memorising things the easy half of revolutions while understanding complex links between individuals/events/groups/ideas the harder half. China had more of the former and less of the latter.

[Spreadbury]

I would say it is more straightforward than russia, but I still find some parts of china way more annoying than russia. like how the communists did pretty much the exact same thing 3 times. at the jiangxi soviet, yanan, and then with the whole of china they did nearly the exact same land reforms. it's a real $&%@#

[Greggler]

China's the best. Its the stuff epic movies should be made of in comparison to Russia which just happened over a few years and in the end was pretty much a coup.

The only annoying thing is the 50 year period of AOS1, but the straightforwardness/story-telling nature of AOS2 makes up for that.

[absurdlittlebird]

I'm doing it by correspondence. Which is hell, but proves how much I love history.


It's too much to learn in the time we have, but I actually think it's a fascinating revolution.

So I don't know. I don't hate history. Just vce; it isn't conducive to learning.