China AOS2 Quotes

Question 1

Korean War Propaganda Slogan

Answer 1

“Resist America Aggression, Aid Korea”

Question 2

Mao on Sanfan

Answer 2

“We need to have a good cleanup…which will thoroughly uncover all cases of corruption…while following the policy of educating and remoulding”

Question 3

Mao on Korean War (Negative)

Answer 3

“The war was a mistake and 100 per cent wrong.”

Question 4

Mao on Mass Campaigns 1952

Answer 4

“We definitely have no benevolent policies towards the reactionaries or the counter-revolutionary activities of the reactionary classes.”

Question 5

Hong Kong Reporter 1951

Answer 5

“Those who come out of communist China with an astonishing unanimity refer to… this constant haunting fear…”

Question 6

Fanshen Policy

Answer 6

“Isolate the few to win over the many”

Question 7

Historian Ross Terrill on Mass Campaigns

Answer 7

“The Chinese Communists did not need to destroy the bourgeoise, as they were easily subdued by the new order.”

Question 8

Lu Ting-yi (Director of Propaganda) Speech May 1956

Answer 8

“If we want our country to be prosperous and strong, we must… have a flourishing art, literature and science. That is essential.”

Question 9

Liu Shaoqi on the Great Leap Forward 7000 Cadres Conference (1962)

Answer 9

“There is no Great Leap Forward, only a great deal of falling backward”

Question 10

Mao on Hundred Flowers

Answer 10

“The purpose was to let demons and devils, ghosts and monsters ‘air views freely’…so that the people…would take action to wipe them out.”

Question 10

Mao on Korean War (Positive)

Answer 10

“China has taken on the biggest imperialist and not been beaten and has at last stood up.”

Question 10

Peasant Zhao Tongmin on the Great Leap Forward

Answer 10

“Those were the days…so many people came together. Their discipline was marvellous. Everyone came to work on time and all joined in with a will”

Question 11

Mao on the Three Bad Years Famine

Answer 11

“Even if there’s a collapse that’ll be alright. The worst that will happen is that the whole world will get a big laugh out of it”

Question 12

Historian Maurice Meisner on early years of CCP rule

Answer 12

“The new regime was authoritarian and often repressive, but the cities were governed honestly and efficiently for the first time in modern Chinese history.”

Question 13

Yu Dehong (secretary to CCP cadre in Henan province) on Three Bad Years Famine

Answer 13

“All the communal kitchens were shut down … all the roots and tree bark had been consumed. After that, massive starvation deaths occurred…there were dead bodies everywhere.”

Question 14

Li Zhisui (Mao’s doctor) on Mao

Answer 14

“Mao was a great philosopher, a great soldier, and a great politician, but he was a terrible economist. He had a penchant for grandiose schemes. He lost touch with the people… Mao was a complex and often contradictory man…He believed in his own infallibility.”

Question 15

Lin Biao’s Foreword in Little Red Book

Answer 15

“Study Chairman Mao’s writings, follow his teachings and act according to his instructions and be his good fighters.”

Question 16

Mao at Tenth Plenum (24th - 27th September 1962)

Answer 16

“Never forget class struggle. From now on we must talk about this every year, every month, every day.”

Question 17

Sixteen Points (August 1966)

Answer 17

“At present, our objective is to struggle against and overthrow those persons in authority who are taking the capitalist road.”

Question 18

Red Guard Slogan

Answer 18

“I will kill you!”

Question 19

Mo Bo on his experience as a Red Guard

Answer 19

“We all enjoyed having no classes and degrading the teachers … This kind of experience was so intoxicating that some of us went off our heads”

Question 20

Maoist Saying (Cult of Mao)

Answer 20

“Father is close, Mother is close, but neither is as close as Chairman Mao.”

Question 21

Liang Heng (Red Guard sent to countryside; male lol)

Answer 21

“The peasants’ day-to-day life was miserably cruel. Where was the “Liberation” from suffering that the Revolution was meant to have given them?”

Question 22

Jung Chang & Jon Halliday on Mao

Answer 22

“Mao began systematic terrorisation of the population, to induce long-term conformity and obedience … His aim was to scare and brutalise the entire population.”