The People's Republic of China was founded on October 1, 1949, after a hundred years of aggression, humiliation, political upheaval and internal instability to which they call it the century of humiliation. The people's government launched various socio-economic programs for the progress and ...
China under Mao Following the end of the Korean War in 1953 and France's Indochina War in 1954, China began to move away from its dependence on the Soviet Union. From 1958-61, Mao Zedong attempted to rapidly modernize China with the Great Leap Forward, only to trigger famines which kil...
The first years of the China under Mao rule was greeted with relief and joy after decades of conflict. With moral confidence, the CCP got off on a good start—ridding the streets of prostitutes, gangs and opium dens. Women were given a better deal too—granted equal status and the right ...
How did China's economy work under Mao Zedong? Why was Mao so beloved during the Cultural Revolution? Why did Mao Zedong create the Republic of China? What happened to Mao Zedong in 1949? How did Mao Zedong die? How did the Qin Dynasty change China? How did Mao's economic policies har...
Under the guidance of Mao Zedong Thought, the Communist Party of China led the Chinese people of all ethnic groups in the long revolutionary struggle against imperialism, feudalism, and bureaucratic capitalism, securing victory in the new democratic revolution and fo...
under which the party had built its rule during the previous decades” (Lee 140). From 1949 to 1957, Mao sought to mobilize the majority of the Chinese masses under Communism as led by himself. In 1966, Mao used the Red Guards minority to attack the majority Communist structure to ...
Analyses of the Chinese economy under Mao include Audrey Donnithorne, China’s Economic System (1967); and Alexander Eckstein, China’s Economic Revolution (1977). Studies of the reform transition include Nicholas R. Lardy and Kenneth Lieberthal (eds.), Ch’en Yun’s Strategy for China’s Dev...
This isn't China's first shot at trying to regulate cultural entertainment. Decades ago, under Mao Zedong, the Communist Party revised operas and ballets to fit government propaganda. The crackdown on dancing in public is the latest in a string of government actions in recent years restricting ...