Tianjin and Laogai

Question 1

1. What % of firms were:
   - Law abiding?
   - Basically Law-abiding?
   - Semi-Law Abiding?
   - Serious law-breakers?
2. What did this allow the CCP to do?
3. The 3 and 5 antis campaigns showed that the CCP would not protect _______ _________ or tolerate ____-_____ ________.
4. What had CCP ranks increased to by the end of 1952?
   - How many workers were enrolled in propaganda?

Answer 1

1. • 10%
     - 64%
     - 20%
     - 5%.
2. Pick out targets.
3. Private business, semi-legal practices.
4. 6 million.
   - 40,000.

Question 2

1. What was Laogai inspired by?
   - What does Laogai translate to?
2. How many people were undergoing forced labour in 1955?
   - Most prisoners were ________ prisoners.
3. How many doctors, engineers and experts were rounded up in 3 and 5 antis campaigns?

Answer 2

1. Stalin’s gulags.
   - Reform through labour.
2. Over 1.3 million.
   - Political.
3. 300,000.

Question 3

1. In Guangdong, what fraction of prisoners committed suicide or died of disease 1 year after arriving?
2. How many died in prison camps during Mao’s rule?
3. What was the peak prison population/year during Mao’s rule?

Answer 3

1. 1/3.
2. Up to 30 million.
3. 10 million.

Question 4

1. In the mid-1950s, how many Yuan was Laogai contributing in industry prod?
2. How much grain went to the economy?
3. Laogai also allowed the CCP to do what to their rule?

Answer 4

1. 700 million Yuan.
2. 350,000 tonnes.
3. Expand it.