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AS History (The Impact of Chairman Mao: China, 1946-1976) > 4 - Reforming in China > Flashcards

4 - Reforming in China Flashcards

In this chapter you will learn about: -the process of land reform and how this affected Chinese peasants -how the Chinese revolution changed the role and status of women -the progress made in establishing a system of universal education in China -the progress made in improving public health

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1
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Who was the Common Programme drawn up by? When?

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  • The Chinese People’s Political Consultative Committee

- September 1949

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What did Article 5 of the Common Programme guarantee?

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the Rights of

  • freedom of though
  • speech
  • publication
  • assembly
  • association
  • correspondence
  • the person
  • domicile
  • movement
  • religious beliefs
  • freedom to hold processions and demonstrations

to everybody but ‘political reactionaries’

I don’t think you need to remember all that. The answer should be ‘basic rights to all people of China apart from those labelled as ‘political reactionaries’

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How did the Common Programme promise economic change?

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Through land reform

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4
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Name the 2 key clauses in the Common Programme that addressed social change?

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  • equal rights for women, ending their lives of ‘bondage’

- emphasis on the need for universal, free education

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5
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Before 1949 which 2 methods regarding land had Mao used to gain the support of the peasants?

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  • rent reductions

- land confiscation

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6
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Now that the CPC were in power, how did Mao go about his land reforms?

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  • confiscation

- redistribution

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7
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Who did Mao confiscate land off? Who did he give it to?

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  • rich landlords

- poorer peasants and landless labourers

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8
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Who did Mao specifically not confiscate land off? Why?

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  • better-off peasants

- because he recognised that the food produced by the wealthier peasants was essential to the nation as a whole

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9
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What were local peasants encouraged by the CPC cadres to do?

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Identify and humiliate or attack their landlords

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What did the CPC do to the relationship of the peasants and landlords? Why?

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  • stoked up class-conflict

- in order to cement the relationship between CHina’s peasants and the communist revolution

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11
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What was the effect of the land reforms?

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  • broke the power of the landlord class

- surviving relatives cowed into submission

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“Collective agriculture was seen as the best way to bring more modern methods of farming to the Chinese countryside.” True or False?

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True

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13
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What was hoped would be achieved by collectivising agriculture?

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Increase food production

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14
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Why did Mao not force the peasants into larger collective farms at first?

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He believed it would encounter resistance that would threaten to undermine peasant support for the revolution

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15
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What were mutual aid teams?

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Groupings of about 10 families that pooled labour and equipment

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16
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Who did women owe obedience to?

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  • ‘proper’ authority
  • wife to husband
  • daughter to father
  • widow to eldest son
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17
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Name 3 practices involving women that were common in the early 20th Century (in China)?

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  • foot binding
  • arranged marriages
  • concubines (mistresses kept by powerful men)
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18
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Why were the lives of female peasants particularly hard?

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Expected to

  • work in fields
  • raise children
  • carry on handicraft work at home
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19
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Mao’s concubines.

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Officially referred to as the PLA dance troupe they were treated as ‘imperial concubines’ expected to provide for the Chairman’s sexual needs

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20
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What percentage of uni students were female in 1922?

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2.5%

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21
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What was the rate of social change in the countryside?

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Non-existent or very slow

22
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What happened in the Jiangxi province in the 1930s?

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  • arranged marriages were outlawed
  • it became illegal to purchase wives
  • women given the right to vote
  • Mao stipulated that 1/4 of those elected to representative bodies had to be women
23
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What did the Communists address after they took power in 1949?

A

Women’s rights

24
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When was the New Marriage Law?

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1950

25
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What did the New Marriage Law do?

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  • outlawed arranged marriages and the payment of dowries to a husband/family
  • concubinage banned
  • unmarried, divorced or widowed women give same rights to own property as men
  • divorce made available to men and women on equal terms
26
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What helped change attitudes in rural areas?

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  • new educational opportunities
  • reforms
  • social and legal framework
27
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What was education in China traditionally viewed as?

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A means to gain entry to the imperial civil service

28
Q

What was entries to schools and universities restricted by?

A

High costs

29
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What percent of people passed their imperial exams in any one year?

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5%

30
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What did the low percentage of people passing the exams ensure?

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It produced an elite class of administrators

31
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How many Western schools and universities were there in China by 1949?

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  • 31 run by British or American foundations

- 32 run by Christian missionary organisations

32
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What were the educational opportunities like for peasants?

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Virtually non-eistent

33
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What percentage of Chinese adults were literate in the early 20th century?

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30%

34
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What percentage of Chinese children attended primary school before 1949?

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20%

35
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Where did Mao believe learning should come from?

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Experience

36
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What did Mao oppose in Chinese schools and universities? Why?

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  • western influence

- he regarded it as a form of cultural imperialism

37
Q

What was the only way Mao could successfully politically indoctrinate everybody?

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Mass literacy

38
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1956 full time education fact.

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Less than half of children between 7 and 16 were in full-time education.
<0.5 children age 7-16 in full-time ed.
1956

39
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1976 primary education fact.

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96% of primary-age children enrolled in schools

1976

40
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Why was there such a slow change in education?

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  • it started from a very low base
  • communist gov. did not spend much on education
  • -1952 investment by the State in education and culutre combined amounted to 6.4% of the total budget
  • -1952 investment by the UK gov. in education amounted to 9% of the total budget and I bet they had more money at hand too
41
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What were key schools?

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  • best teachers sent here
  • tough entrance examination
  • heavy emphasis on testing, examinations and physical education
  • however, mostly attended by children of high-ranking officials
42
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What happened to higher education?

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  • remodelled
  • concentrated more on technical and scientific subjects
  • reflected the countries need for specialists
43
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Where were large numbers of students sent to study?

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USSR Uni until the late 1950

44
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What was the provision of healthcare like before the communist regime took over?

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  • uneven
  • 19th C western style med brought by missionaries
  • they built hospitals and medical schools in the largest cities
  • GMD regime in 1920s/30s showed improvements in medical care
  • GMD regime discouraged traditional medicine
  • medical needs of rural areas not addressed
  • high infant mortality rates
45
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What did the communist regime place emphasis on (with regards to health care)?

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Preventative rather than curative because of the lack of trained doctors

like the Romans

46
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What did health reform take the form of?

A

Mass campaigns using street and neighbourhood committees

47
Q

Name one of the Communist health campaigns.

A

Patriotic Health Campaign

48
Q

What was ‘night-soil’

A

Shit. Plain shit.

49
Q

What was a major cause of disease in rural areas?

A

night-soil

50
Q

What was schistosomiasis?

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A disease that cased internal bleeding and was common in the Chinese countryside

51
Q

What sort of health care system was adopted at a rural level?

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  • a three-tier system
  • -village level - catered for by paramedics
  • -township - had a health centre providing out-patient care + a limited number of beds for in-patient care
  • -serious cases - referred to county hospital staffed by fully trained doctors
52
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What percentage of the state budget was spent on health care?

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1.3% in 1952

AS History (The Impact of Chairman Mao: China, 1946-1976) (6 decks)

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