U4 AOS2 Interpretations Flashcards
Fenby= Non-Communists in new political system
‘window dressing’
Callick= Red Army
‘it was not the army of the government, or of China more generally, but of the CCP’
Dikotter= Land Reform
‘a pact sealed in blood between the party and the poor’
Dikotter= Thought Reform
‘a carefully cultivated Auschwitz of the mind’
Fenby= Korean War
‘proof of enhanced status’
Terrill= Wufan
‘many capitalists turned red when the heat went on, silently like lobsters put in hot water’
Spence= First Five Year Plan
‘it was a formidable achievement’
Ryan= High Tide of Socialism
Mao had an ‘electrifying effect’ on the Party
Dietrich= Women
‘China’s women had risen to the status of second class citizens’
Fenby= Hundred Flowers Campaign
‘demonstrated Mao’s naivety and then his utter ruthlessness’
Ryan= Hundred Flowers Campaign
‘the fine rain of criticism grew into a heavy downpour of resentment’
Primary Interpretation Mao= Anti-Rightist Campaign
‘any word or deed at variance with socialism is completely wrong’
Short= Mao in GLF
‘on an adrenaline high’
Fairbank= People’s Communes
‘the state had become the ultimate landlord’
Fairbank= GLF
‘Mao-made catastrophe’
Chang= Mao in GLF
Mao had ‘a disregard for reality’
Salisbury= Lushan Plenum
‘Mao had turned his band of brothers into a claque, clapping hands and nodding heads like mechanical dolls’
Becker= Three Bad Years Famine
‘in terms of sheer numbers, no other event comes close to this’
Gao= Socialist Education Movement
‘two diametrically opposed views of how to implement policy in China were now in the open for all to see’
Cook= Little Red Book
‘weapon of mass instruction’
Ryan= Great Cultural Revolution
‘extraordinary revolutionary movement against revisionist influences’
Lifton= Great Cultural Revolution
an attempt by Mao to achieve ‘revolutionary immortality’
Fenby= Mao’s Good Swim
‘like news that Queen Elizabeth II had swum the channel’
Jocelyn= Red Guards
‘Mao’s arsekickers’
Short= End of CR
‘Mao had looked into the abyss and didn’t like what he saw’
Gray= Mao
Mao’s actions ‘had proved destructive, demoralizing, and disastrous’
Lynch= Mao
‘Mao, the Red emperor, the saviour and destroyer of his people.’
Devin= Change and Continuity
Mao’s ‘revolution reunified China’
Chang and Halliday= Hundred Flowers Campaign
‘Mao was setting a trap’
Meisner= GLF
‘a product of a utopian social vision, not an economic plan’
Chang and Halliday= Mao’s Cult of Personality
‘ensured he was untouchable’
Karl= Great Cultural Revolution
‘chaos and violence flowed unabated’
