Challenges/Reasons for Campaigns post 1949 Flashcards
1
Q
agrarian law reform
A
- give something to the downtrodden peasants (by LL form many years)
2
Q
health campaigns
A
- concerns over public health issues
- eradicate certain diseases
3
Q
women’s rights/marriage law
A
- change the traditional role and repression
4
Q
counter revolutionaries (3 and 5 antis)
A
- industry - to eradicate waste, corruption and fraud
5
Q
Hundred flowers
A
- to hear about pros/cons of CCP activity
- mao was unhappy with centralisation from 1st five year plan
- need to identify counter revolutionaries
- need to stop artistic and intellectual development from occuring
6
Q
Anti rightist campaigns
A
- eradicate those who spoke out
7
Q
Cultural revolution (cult of mao, little red book)
A
- some people were losing revolutionary spirit
- mao feared loss of power
- mao resented rise of moderates, wanted to stamp them out
- mao did this to win power struggle with liu
- wanted to gain support for the future through targeting the youths
- purge moderate party members
8
Q
GLF
A
- need to develop china and overtake other nations
- requirement to decentralise economic activity
9
Q
liu and Deng restructuring the economy
A
- to alleviate food shortage
10
Q
social education campaigns
A
- mao had lost centre of public attention and needed to regain it
- mao also needed to counteract private economic goals being encouraged by liu’s ‘revisionist’ policies
