Histiography

Question 1

Jack Gray

Answer 1

his two great campaigns had attempted to democratize socialism, but the result was to identify him not with democratization, but with personal dictatorship and ruthless coercion

Question 2

John King

Answer 2

Mao had two careers;

one as a rebel leader and one as an updated emperor

Question 3

Jiang Tsou

Answer 3

he tried to reduce the distance between the leaders + the masses and became one of them

Question 4

Hsu

Answer 4

Mao’s greatest blunder was his rejection of population control

• the isolation of the PRC from external contact was an error
• china needed external aid to develop technologically
• emphasizing agriculture below industrial development was inappropriate for a nation that was over 80% rural in nature

Question 5

Chang and Halliday

Answer 5

over 70 miillion people died, but mao only felt sorry for himself

Question 6

Lee Feignon

Answer 6

he was a monster, but a monster whom people regarded as the symbol of a new china that would wipe away all the suffering and weaknesses of the hundred years before 1949

Question 7

Jonathan Ferby

Answer 7

Not only did Mao begin the process of opening up China to the outside world, he also created the industrial infrastructure that laid basis for the resuscitation of the chinese economy