Campaigns Post 1949 (China) Flashcards
June 1950
What did it involve?
Agrarian Law Reform
- land redistribution - 3/4 acre to 3 acres
- fanshen - struggle against and public denunciations of LL
- speak bitterness
Aug 1951
What did it involve?
3 Antis movement (San-fan)
- against waste, corruption, inefficiency
Feb 1952
What did it aim to do? .. By?
5 antis movement (wu-fan)
- stimulate economy by targeting industrial sabotage, tax evasion, bribery, fraud and theft of govt property.
1953
Which campaign and what did it focus on?
what did it achieve in economic growth?
First 5 year plan
- on heavy industry
- economic growth rate of 9% was achieved by 1957.
May 1957
Which campaign? What happened?
Hundred Flowers Campaign
- accusations were made against mao and high ranking govt officials
- anti rightist campaign launched
“let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend”
May 1958
Which campaign? what were the 4 initiatives to decentralise economic activity?
Great Leap Forward
- collectivisation
- farming techniques (Lysenko)
- Mass infastrucutre projects (dam projects)
- localised industrial production (backyard steel furnaces)
August 1959
Where was meeting and who did it involve?
What other monumental change occurred?
Central committee meeting in Lushan
- Peng Duhai questioned policies of GLF and was denounced as a result
- mao stepped down as chairman of Republic
1962
Which events to do with the economy transpired?
Why?
Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping restructured economy
- crisis markets were reopened to peasants to produce surplus goods
1963
Which campaigns? What happened?
Social eduction campaigns began
- masses were to assess practices of their cadres.
May 1964
what was published? who used it? when and where?
Mao’s Little Red Book.
- PLA
- issued to all students
- communal readings occurred at the beginning of every day in workplaces .
May 1966
Which campaign? what happened?
Cultural Revolution
- call for youth to attack olds (culture, traditions, habits, and thought)
- Red guards (teenagers) rampaged through streets destroying 4 olds.
Oct 1968
Who was expelled from the party? what happened to him?
Liu Shaoqi
- he was labelled number 1 capitalist roader
- was accused of being secret agent for GMD
- was deliberately placed in poor conditions in prison died in 1973 in solitary confinement.
January 1969
Who was sent to countryside? Why?
Red guards
- the widespread disruption meant Red guard units were at war with one another in during 1960’s
October 1969
Who was sent to ‘Correction labour’? What else happened to him? Who sent him?
Deng Xiaoping
- he underwent public humiliation
- he was sent with family to reform himself in solitary confinement by Lin Biao.
September 1971
Who dies? What did mao previously order him to do and what plan did he come up with?
Lin Biao in plane crash
- mao ordered Biao to self-criticism
- Biao then conspired to assassinate mao.
