China Flashcards
first president
Sun Yat Sen
Yuan Shikai
Manchu side and wanted an authoritative government
Sun Yat sen saying
“double yoke of imperialism would be overthrown” - foreign power and manchu
warlords maximum power
1916
creation of the CCP
1919
what created the CCp
Cultural revolution
First conference of CCP
1921 - in Shanghai
GMD
Also being created in 1921
Sun Yat Sen Regime
Nationalist
Chiang Kai Shek
GMD leader
CCP and guomindang
alliance in 1924
to remove twin evils
didnt have resources indivudually
twin evils
influence of warlords and foreign power
28 B
Bolsheviks - very powerful in CCP
How did the alliance help the CCP?
59 members-58,000
Northern Expedition
1926-28
attack on the warlord by the CCP and GMD
White Terror
1927
purge of the CCP by chiang Kai shek
political repression of the people
Nanjing government
1928-37
formed by Chiang Kai Shek - have all the power and be at the highest seat of power
Machiavellian aspect
everyone was involved in the process
sinification of marxism
put peasants at forefront
Jiang Xi
1931-34
an area that was a safe haven for CCP post purges
mao key leader
Futian
1930
Purge of the CCP member by party itself- 4000
message - party of Mao wouldn’t tolerate any deviation and would eliminate any enemies
The Long March
1934
CCP had tried fighting against the GMD but the guerilla tactics had failed against the block house tactics
retreat from jiang xi
The Long March details
6250 miles total
80k-100k but only 30k survived
had to overcome natural hazards
massive defeats
crossing of dadu river - very significant
treated the local communities with a lot of respect as they went along - very important
Rectification campaigns
1942-45
Known as self criticism sessions for doubts and secrets
20% of all members eliminated
Yanan
1935-45
after jiang xi went here and started setting up policies, reforms and governments
Civil War
1945-49
between CCP and GMD
Win of the CCP
consolidation of power
1949
became a one party state
1st campaign
3 Anti movement
1951
against party officials members businesses etc.
2nd campaign
1951
5 Anti movement
against everyone who evaded taxes, stole government property, cheated government contracts, bribery etc.
3rd campaign
- against intellectuals teachers lawyers artists journalist people with bookish knowledge
- Tried to limit them because they could question ideology
- Similar from idea of socialist realism from Russia
Gao Gang and Rao Rashi Affair
1954
terror - purging
100 Flowers Movement
1956-57
1958
1 million party members expelled or sent to rural areas for education
Laogi
labour camps for reeducation
Agrarian Reform
1950
abolishment of land ownership by the feudal lords
On the path to communism
Aug-Sept 1957
Speak Bitterness Campaign
1950
Chinese peasant farmers the opportunity to express their anger and sorrow about old injustices
1950-52 agriculture stats
figures of production of agriculture went up to 15%
not enough for growing population
Mutual Aid Teams
1953
7-10 families to share resources and animals
Lower level collectives
1954
30-40 families
Higher level APCs
1956-58
300-400 families farming
75 million households - 63% of peasant population in APCs
First Five Year Plan
agriculture needed to push idea of industrialisation
1953–57
The Great Leap Forward
1958
mass industrialisation
involving the masses
Backyard furnaces
melt household materials to make steel
No pests movement
exterminate all sparrows
1958 commune stats
1958 - 700 million people into 26578 communes
Lysenko
russian scientist genetically modified crops
Famine
1959-61
30 million people died
1/4th of the population wiped out in Sichuan and Hainan
1/5th of the population wiped out in tibet
three bitter years
1961-64
Lushan Conference
1959
Peng Duhai - he was dismissed from his job - sent a message that no one was allowed to acknowledge
The Retreat
1961-62
Mao was forced to retire
shift to light industry
fragmentation of communes
Socialist Education Movement (SEM)
1962-65
way of crushing his political opponents and establishing his personal authority
wanted to involved the poor and lower middle peasant associations to supervise the work of the party cadres
Machiavellian aspect - he has lost that power and control and needs a way to come back to power
The Red Book
1960 - reassert power
communal readings of the book were organised to indoctrinate the chinese people with maos teaching
PLA
peoples liberation army
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
1965
to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation
1964
rectification in cultural domain of education begins
Swims across the Yantzi river
1966
was a propaganda stand so that people could see what an amazing and able ruler he was and was capable of doing more for china - increase in support from masses
Mao dies in
1976