Historian's Views (China) Flashcards
Maurice Meisner on Mao’s leadership during the long march
‘Mao was the prophet who had led the survivors through the wilderness’
Frederick Teiwes on Mao’s leadership
‘Mao was… the all powerful figure’
James Harrison on the Long March
‘The long march was a great retreat’
Maurice Meisner on Mao’s leadership
‘was a man of destiny who would lead his followers to the completion of their revolutionary mission’
Ross Terrill on activities of red soldiers
‘Red soldiers carried out chores such as cutting firewood for the surrounding communities’
Trevor Sowdon on the rectification program
‘this campaign ultimately shaped up to be a purge of the communist party with only Maoist ideology becoming the accepted party doctrine’
Jung Chang and Jon Halliday on the long march
‘one of the biggest myths of the twentieth century’
Ho-Kan Chin on mao’s leadership
‘let Chinese people become masters of their own destiny’
C.P Fitzgerald on the GMD’s treatment of the people
‘the Chinese groaned under a regime that was fascist in every quality except efficiency’
Edgar Snow on the Red army after the long march
their ‘morale and political will [was] evidently as strong as ever’
Jack Belden on the defeat of the Nationalists
they were ‘continuously beaten because they had no soul’
John King Fairbank on Mao’s influence on the provinces
Mao ‘successfully mobilised the countryside’
Robert Vidas on the peasants’ intentions
they were ‘only interested in getting land’
