China Historiography Flashcards
“democratic dictatorship”
Mao on his objective
“public animals of capitalism”
Mao’s name for Sparrows
“Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend”
Mao on the hundred flowers campaign
“history will judge you and me, and even cannibalism will go into the books”
Liu Shoqui telling Mao after the great leap forward
“We are nothing but the fist of the people beating their oppressors”
CCP general Peng Dehuai
“lure the enemy into the deep strategy”
CCP startegy in the early 1930s
‘our fixed policy should be 70 per cent expansion, 20 per cent dealing with the GMD and 10 per cent resisting the Japanese.’
Mao’s policy on sino japanese war expansion
“The peasants are the sea, we are the fish. The sea is our habitat”
Mao
“When there is not enough to eat people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.”
Mao on the great leap forward
the cultural revolution and its disaster were what allowed the space for deng xiaoping’s liberal reforms to the economy
MacFarquhar and Schoenhals
“Nationalism, Democracy, Livelihood”
Sun Yat Sen
“It was his last desperate attempt to revive a revolution that he believed was dying”
Meisner
