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Conditions before

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  • incompetent Qing dynasty, unequal treaties, backward economy, defeat by Japan 1895, regular famines
  • Sun Yatsen formed GMD to remove Qings and modernise
  • Yuanshikai president of new republic 1912, also incapable
  • warlord era 1915
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Demonstrations in anger at Paris Peace COnference and government

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May 4th 1919

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Mao founding member of CCP

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1921

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Survived Chiang Kaishek’s betrayal of the united front by exacping to Jiangxi

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1927

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Jiangxi era

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1927-34 developed communism

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Futian incident

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1930 4,000 troops purged and executed

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Long march

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1934-5 6,000 mile journey. Enhanced Mao’s reputation and authority and won peasant support on the way

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Yanan era

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1935-45 Mao claimed leadership of CCP, developed communist soviet. Occupied surroundings with Red Army

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Red Army ‘Code of Conduct’

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win over peasants, end usury, medical services and educational programs initiated

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CCP growth 1937-45

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40,000 to 1million

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Mao’s adaptation of ideology

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adapted Marxist-Leninism for China, the peasants were the source of revolution

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Opposed by marxists eg Wang Ming. Survived criticism because

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long march, unrivalled knowledge of peasantry, intense self-belief and determination, indispensable military planner

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‘Rectification of Conduct campaign’

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1942-44, 1,000 party members imprisoned and tortured

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Mao’s early Cult status

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Maoism, elected chairman 1943, by 1945 the ‘Great Helmsman’. By now he had consolidated authority but not a SPS

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Japanese invasion of Manchuria and lose

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1931-45 CCP the defenders of China

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Civil War, nationalist weakness and communist strength

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1945-49: poor commanders, bad training, low morale, ineffective use of american weapons. Mao’s leadership, red army’s survival skills and support of peasantry, resisted Russian interference

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PRC declared

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October 1st 1949: China under military control

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reality of the running of the country

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not the will of the people but the government and CCP. Nothing could be done of which Mao disapproved.

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Reunification Campaigns

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1950 further imposed military control. Tibet, Xinjiang, Guandong. Martial law

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anti movements

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1950 deliberately created atmosphere of fear and uncertainty. Encouraged informants, Dangan dossier etc.

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Korean War

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1950, more solidarity and further control

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anti landlord campaign

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1950s land confiscated and redistributed, public trial and denunciation, up to 1 million landlords killed

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100 flowers campaign

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1957 debate encouraged, criticism mounted, then criticisers condemned, arrested and imprisoned. Affected by de-stalinisation? still crushed opposition.

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‘100 flowers was to deliberately expose critics and remove opposition’

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Jung Chang

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‘Seeking genuine criticism to silence the bureaucrats’

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Lee Feignon

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economic goals

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to develop industrially and surpass the world. Also to break the soviet grip (loans and materials)

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Great Leap Forward

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1957-62. Peasants provide food surplus to sell abroad to fund expansion. Workers create an industrial economy. 40 million died due to ineffective collectives.

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opposition to Mao from GLF

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1959 Peng Dehuai recounted horrors of famines at Lushan party gathering. No one backed him up

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Solution to GLF problems

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appoint Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoqi to tackle famines and abandon collectives. Retreat into background

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Motives for return in cultural revolution

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fear of losing control, age, paranoia, resentment over damaged reputation, international rivalry (felt the USSR were betraying communism)

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the Cult of Mao enabled CR

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Lin Biao, little red book 750 million sold in first 4 years, saturated everything

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attack on revisionism

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August Rally 1966- 1 million young people, four olds declared. Young were the power of Mao, attacked willfully. Red guards ‘it is right to rebel’.

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removed Deng and Liu for

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‘taking a bourgeois, reactionary line’ after GLF

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Up to the mountains, down to the villages

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1970-72 a bit too manic so Red guards sent to learn manual labour, replaced by PLA

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cleansing of the class ranks

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1968-71 GO4 eradicating all signs of capitalism, widespread killing and destruction, terror campaign

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Final phase of CR

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momentum was lost, doubt sown over Lin Biao affair in 1971. Laogai further enforced

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Effects of Laogai

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10 million prisoners a year. 27 million died. By 1976 over 1,000 camps across China

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mao’s view of Culture

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the product of the ruling class, artist’ first duty was to serve the revolution

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Jiang Qing

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Cultural purifier of the nation. rigid censorship only directly ‘relevant’ themes allowed. Commissioned works replaced opera, undermined all tradition all about revolution and triumph of proletariat

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Poet Yan Yen’s comment on culture

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‘the cultural trademark of my generation is that we have no culture’ old culture simply paralysed rather than creating a new one

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Religion seen as

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‘superstitions cultivated to exploit and suppress the people’

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anti religion campaign

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1950 land and property seized, clergy abused

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condemnation of religion

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posters and loudspeakers, slogan-ridden society

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eradication?

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unable to as so deeply ingrained. During CR attacks intensified ‘confucius and co’ as denunciation. difficult to control outlying areas and borders eg Tibet

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Women’s traditional role before

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subordinate, shoes etc.

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new marriage law

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1950: concubinage forbidden, arranged marriages ended, divorce entitled. Actually threatened to prove so disruptive that PLA had legal right to overrule a divorce

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Women in collectives

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no longer the burden of feeding a family. But lost their previous right to own land from the land redistribution. Equal to men, same workload

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Workforce of women increase from 1949-76

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8% to 32%

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Better conditions for women?

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female babies still rendered inferior, advocacy of women’s rights but in reality still male dominated, over worked.

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Women in politics

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only 13% of CCP members women. National People’s congress 14% to 23% 1954-75, not a priority obviously.

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