China AOS2 Perspectives

Question 1

Mao

Re: democratic dictatorship

Answer 1

‘The right to vote belongs to the people and not to reactionaries.’

Democratic elections for the 4 revolutionary classes
Dictatorship over classes who are a threat to change & the revolution

Question 2

Zhou Enlai

Re: Korean War

Answer 2

‘Chinese people will absolutely not tolerate foreign aggression, nor will they… tolerate seeing their neighbours invaded by imperialists.’

Question 3

Mao

Re: warning in Korean War

Answer 3

‘Your enemy is not an easy one. Don’t forget, you are fighting the chief imperialist.’

Question 4

Mao

Re: Consequence of Korean War

Answer 4

‘Last year what we spent on the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea more or less equalled our expenditures for national reconstruction.’

Question 5

Mao

Re: Fanshen & Land Reform

Answer 5

‘Peasants are clear-sighted… the peasants keep clear accounts.’

Question 6

Mao

Re: Sanfan (inside corruption)

Answer 6

‘We need to have a good clean up… uncover all cases of corruption whether major, medium or minor… policy of education and remolding the medium and minor embezzlers so that they will not relapse.’

Question 7

Article 48 of Constitution

Re: Women’s Rights

Answer 7

Women in the People’s Republic of China enjoy equal rights with men in all spheres of life…The state protects the rights and interests of women.’

Question 8

Party radio announcement

Re: Women’s rights

Answer 8

‘It is better for a woman to have big hands and big feet. Big feet are beautiful, big hands are capable hands. A white skin in sickly.’

Question 9

Liu Shaoqui

Re: First 5 Year Plan

Answer 9

‘The Soviet road is the road all humanity will eventually take. To bypass this road is imppossible.’

Question 10

Liu

Re: Collectivisation Debates

Answer 10

‘no collectivisation without modernisation.’

Question 11

Mao

Re: Collectivasation Debates

Answer 11

‘Your mind needs to be shelled with artillery.’

Question 12

Moao

Re: Hundred Flowers Campaign

Answer 12

‘Let a hundred flowers, let a hundred schools of thought contend.’

Question 13

Democratic League Minister

Re: Hundred Flowers Campaign

Answer 13

‘higher intellectuals are still suspicious.’

Question 14

Mao

Re: On Contradictions

Answer 14

‘They are just contradictions, that’s all. The world is full of contradictions.’

Question 15

Mao

Re: Promise of Hundred Flowers Campaign

Answer 15

rectification would be a ‘gentle breeze and a fine rain’ through ‘Comradely heart-to-heart talks in the form of conversation.’

Question 16

Rittenberg

Re: Critics during Hundred Flowers Campaign

Answer 16

‘I thought the critics were wrong… and misguided.’

Question 17

Mao

Re: response to critics of Hundred Flowers Campaign

Answer 17

‘distinguishing between fragrant flowers and poisonous weeds.’

Question 18

Mao

Re: critics of Hundred Flowers Campaign

Answer 18

‘Any word or deed at variance with socialism is completely wrong.’

Question 19

Mao

Re: reflection of Hundred Flowers Campaign

Answer 19

‘purpose was to… ‘air views freely’… let poisonous weeds sprout and grow in profusion so that the people… would take action to wipe them out…’

Question 20

Mao

Re: GLF

Answer 20

‘Poor people want change… A clean sheet of paper has no blotches…’

Question 21

Mao

Re: GLF

Answer 21

‘If you are too realistic you can’t write poetry’

Question 22

Mao

Re: High Tide

Answer 22

‘Go all out, aim high and achieve greater, faster, better and more economical results in the building of socialism.’

Question 23

People’s Daily

Re: Peoples Communes

Answer 23

‘The main feature of the People’s Communes are that it is bigger and more socialist.’

Question 24

Li Zhusui

Re: People’s Commune

Answer 24

‘something new and never seen before.’

Question 25

Rittenberg

Re: People’s Communes

Answer 25

‘I felt the thrill of being one of the people who didn’t just talk about changing the world, but actually did something about it.’

Question 26

Wang Wende

Re: Communal Kitchens

Answer 26

‘We all ate well during the smelting drive… All the barriers between the people broke down.’

Question 27

Mao

Re: Lushan Plenum

Answer 27

‘The achievements are tremendous, the problems are numerous, the expertise is rich and the future is bright.’

Question 28

Wang Bingnan

Re: Post-Lushan

Answer 28

‘After Lushan the whole Party shut up. We were afraid to speak out.’

Question 29

Mao

Re: Corrupt Cadres

Answer 29

‘modern equivalents of the mandarins of old, who valued their procedures and political connections more than the welfare of the people.’

Question 30

Gao

Re: Mao & Liu’s differences

Answer 30

‘Two diametrically opposed views of how to impement policy in CHina were now in the open for all to see.’

Question 31

Mao

Re: Culture

Answer 31

‘Even party members are enthusiastically promoting feaudal and capitalist art but ignoring socialist art.’

Question 32

Mao

May 16 Circular

Answer 32

‘seize the leadership’
‘criticise and repudiate those representatives of the bourgeoisie’

Question 33

Mao

Re: Cultural Revolution

Answer 33

‘A single dazibao at Beijing University ignited the conflagration of the Cultural Revolution!’

Question 34

Former Red Guard

Re: Cultural Revolution

Answer 34

‘I thought that what we were doing was important; therefore i enjoyed myself fully.’

Question 35

Zhou Enlai

Re: Cleansing the Ranks

Answer 35

‘The bad people you have to drag out aren’t just capitalist roaders but bad people inside your ranks as well.’

Question 36

Mao

Re: GLF

Answer 36

need to ‘let the people explode’