Communist China
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Mao Zedong
*1893–1976, founder of the People's Republic of China.
* From 1928 until 1931 Mao, with Zhu De and others, established rural soviets in the
hinterlands, and built the Red Army.
* Mao was one of the most prominent Communist theoreticians and his ideas on
revolutionary struggle and guerrilla warfare have been extremely influential, especially
among Third World revolutionaries.
*MAO Zedong was born on December 26 in the small village of
Shaoshan in the province of Hunan -Southeast China. While Mao
spent much of his childhood working on the family farm, he
developed a passion for learning during his brief primary
education. At the age of sixteen, Mao left Shaoshan and traveled
to the city of Changsha, the provincial capital, where he enrolled
in middle school. Mao was born at a time of great social, political,
and cultural change. China was feeling the pressure of imperialism
and many scholars, government officials, and others were pushing
for modernizing reforms.
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The Great Leap Forward
* The Great Leap Forward planned to develop agriculture and industry. Mao believed that
both had to grow to allow the other to grow. Industry could only prosper if the work force
was well fed, while the agricultural workers needed industry to produce the modern tools
needed for modernization. To allow for this, China was reformed into a series of
communes.
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Cultural Revolution
*The movement that became known as the Great
Proletarian Cultural Revolution represented an
attempt by Mao to go beyond the party
rectification campaigns, of which there had been
many since 1942, and to devise a new and more
radical method for dealing with what he saw as the
bureaucratic degeneration of the party.
*During the early 1960s, tensions with the Soviet Union convinced
Mao that the Russian revolution had gone astray, which in turn
made him fear that China would follow the same path. Programs
carried out by his colleagues to bring China out of the economic
depression caused by the Great Leap Forward made Mao doubt
their revolutionary commitment and
also resent his own diminished role.
Tiananmen Square
*Tiananmen (translated from Chinese: The Gate of Heavenly Peace) is the original gate of the
Imperial Palace, commonly known as the Forbidden City. It is now one of the entrances for
tourists visiting the Forbidden City.
*in the middle of Tiananmen Square sits the
Renmin Yinxiong Jinian Bei, or Monument to
the People's Heroes, which can be seen in the
foreground. Dedicated to the men and women
who died in the struggles to make China an
independent nation in the century before the
Communists came to power, it has acted as a
lightning rod for dissent. After the start of the
Falungong demonstrations, it was cordoned off
from the public.
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Chinese Economy
*The People's Republic of China which was established in 1949 under the leadership of
Mao Zedong, is today a rapidly developing nation of a billion people; on present trends
it is poised to emerge as the largest economy in the world in about two decades (by
the year 2015), overtaking both Japan and the USA. The counter-revolution in the
USSR and its rapid economic and social collapse since 1990 under the regime of
"market reforms", lends a special interest to the sharply contrasting scenario in the
world's largest remaining socialist state. The question inevitably arises: what were the
characteristics of that growth strategy which permitted rapid development during the
three decades 1949- 79; and what is the relation of that strategy to the apparently
very different policies the Chinese planners themselves call, socialist market economy.
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