On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the creation of the People’s Republic of China. China followed the Soviet model of government from 1949 to 1959, but the Soviet model relied heavily on a large industrial population. China did not have a large industrial population (Stanton 2016). Instead, Mao made the foundation of his revolution the peasants (Marlay and Neher 1999). Mao instigated a reworking of Chinese society during his rule, as Mao strictly believed that change must be the constant and that revolutions must be continuous (Marlay and Neher).…
The city was once heavily occupied by foreigners and forced to adapt to western culture. Yet this change in population did not falter the Chinese’s reluctance in welcoming these invaders. However, after the CPC became China’s ruling party in 1949, the city underwent fundamental changes with social infrastructures. Commune were established end a new expectation of roles and class structures were established. It is evident that despite the hardships that the city endured, Shanghai has conclusively proved its resilience and progress towards…
Qin Shi Huangdi, the first Qin emperor, envisioned a central bureaucratic structure headed by royalty to rule China under his name. Though it came at the severe cost of public sentiment, Qin was an extremely proactive emperor who implemented much of what he had envisioned before. It’s agreed upon that the Qin Dynasty laid the foundation for the massive cultural and economic development of China that took place during the Han Dynasty. Although the Qin Dynasty is easily considered among the most influential time periods in Chinese history, it actually failed to achieve many of its ideological goals. In fact, socioeconomic disparity was not eliminated and despite the ideal of enriching the lives of the common people, it was under Qin rule in which public resentment of the authoritarian government was at its peak as there were countless peasant revolts against the bureaucratic rule of China.…
Mao was, at one point, the great man he had described when he first came into power because he wanted to make China seem like a promise land where people could have different freedoms. He did this by creating different reforms and laws to give people the China they wanted. One of the reforms…
He also expand China. Second, he create strict law and demonstrated his own family and kill them and exile the other. With his strict rules, everyone was afraid…
Many people were living in similar housing, and it wasn’t surprising to see multiple generations living under one roof either. China’s governmental power was slowly transferred to dictator Mao Zedong, who implemented a strong set…
Stalin infamously consisted his rule over the Soviet Union through communism, brisk industrialization, propaganda and censorship, and mass killings of anyone who conspired against. Mao, correspondingly, enforced communistic views, quickly sanctioned collectivisation and industrial growth, manipulated his people into complying with his modifications to the law with disinformation, and forming groups to kill resistance to his position of the…
In 1958, Mao employed tactics in an attempt to “modernise” China and create an economy that rivalled America’s. ‘The Great Leap Forward’ focussed heavily on factories and boosting the economy and, due to this, agriculture fell by the wayside. Li states that “By the time I was born three years of Mao’s Great Leap Forward and bad weather had resulted in one of the greatest famines the world had ever seen. Nearly thirty million Chinese died” (8). After the Great Leap Forward failed, Mao introduced the Cultural Revolution in 1966.…
Which is why Mao was seen as a great leader, at the time. As time went on, Mao broke his promise, leaving the economy as worse than ever. In document 1, stating the words of a peasant named Wang Xin for those interested in the Cold war and the Chinese revolution was to inform them about the things Mao Zedong did after the revolution and the experiences; occurrences that happened under his control. It said, “ In 1949 New China was founded and we peasants became masters of the country. Land reform was carried out, the feudalist land ownership abolished and farmland, averaging per person……
“More people, Mao though, would mean more workers, and more workers would mean a stronger China.” He wanted to create an industrial China, so he created a movement called “The Great Leap Forward” forcing people to abandon farming, this made China faced food shortages. “A devastating famine killed an estimated 30 million people.” After this, Mao realized that it wasn’t a good idea to encourage the population…
For Stalin’s economic policy of collectivisation, peasants were forced to collectivize farms and agriculture to accumulate more money towards industrialization which led to famine and mass death, not to mention a decline of both harvest and yield, which was quite a failure. Mao`s Great Leap Forward shifted its focus from heavy industry onto agriculture where the population was forced to collective. Farmers had to grow crops but also had to work to produce steel and iron in addition to infrastructure projects. This policy led to deaths of millions of Chinese peasants and what came to be known as the biggest famine in history. This was a huge failure for Mao, and threw off his position as…
Mao tse-tung brought the communist revolution to China and gained political though the barrel of a gun. The Chinese system he overthrew nearly 50 years ago was backwards and corrupt. Few would argue the fact that he dragged China into the 20th century. But at a cost in human lives that is staggering. Suspected enemies of the party were murdered by the millions, farming collectives and the Great Leap Forwards of industrialization that failed miserably and left millions more died from starvation.…
Mao’s first 5 Year Plan was more or less a success. From most, it moved China a bit up the scale. Mao wanted more though, and this was the problem. The USSR went from something small and ramped right up to being superpower. Mao wanted this for China, so he came up with an idea called the Great Leap Forward.…
In recent years, the Chinese Communist Party’s official evaluations of Chairman Mao have become more and more positive. Under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping, in a party resolution adopted in June 1981, Mao was considered “a great Marxist as well as a great proletarian revolutionary, strategist, and theorist.” Although he made serious mistakes during the Cultural Revolution, the party decided that his contributions to the Chinese revolution greatly outweighed his harms. However, even after 120 years from Mao’s birth, China still debates Mao’s true…
When Mao stepped down he went into semi-seclusion and being not as involved with politics. However, this did not last forever as he still held control over the Communist Party. The Great Cultural Revolution represented an attempt by Mao to devise a new method for dealing with what he saw as the bureaucratic degeneration of the party and the deliberate effort to eliminate those in the leadership who were not following the ways of Mao and the Communist Party. When the young Chinese known as the Red Guards, who constituted the first shock troops of Mao’s enterprise, burst onto the scene in the summer of 1966 with their battle cry “To rebel is justified!” it seemed for a time that not only the power of the party cadres but also authority in all…