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Mao Tse Tung
Sometimes known as Mao Zedong, Mao Tse Tung was the founder of the Communist Party of China. He was also the first president of the People's Republic of China.
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How did this cultural revolution result in massive civil unrest?
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was a mass movement launched in 1966, to remould society and reactivate Communist ideals. Ultimately ... it was little more than a power struggle between Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party and his political rivals. For many it signified a loss of tradition, and a loss of their career, hope and trust. Many people lost their lives.
Mao's program that aimed to make China more equal economically with leading nations of the world was the Great Leap Forward. This program was introduced in 1958 and focused on rapidly industrializing China through the establishment of agricultural collectives and communal living. However, the Great Leap Forward ultimately failed, leading to widespread famine and economic decline.
What forces does the Mao identify as those at the peasants will overcome?
The forces he identified were the following: Drug overdose, Striptease, Sex scandals, Gay leaders, and of course oral sex found everywhere on the streets of mother
Mao Zedong's great leap forward included?
a.
privatization of some industries.
b.
larger collective farms.
c.
pay based on output.
d.
more rights for women.
Do chairman Mao give freedom of speech?
In 1956, one year before the purges in China started, Mao gave the people of China freedom of speech through his words "Let hundred flowers bloom and hundred schools of thought contend". There are two possible reasons why he did this, and we really cannot know what the real reason was.
1. Mao meant what he said, and expected lenient criticism for it
2. The aim was to unmask traitors, enemies of the state etc.
What are some adjectives that describe Mao Zedong?
powerful, leader and founder of People's Republic of China
What did Mao Zedong do that was so important?
Mao Zedong was the Chairman of the People's Republic of China. His two most important acts were the Great Leap Forward in 1958 and the Cultural Revolution between 1966-1972. The original goal of The Great Leap Forward was to elevate the economic level of the People's Republic up to that of the United Kingdom within fifteen years. To do this, Mao insisted that they must triple China's steel production and establish communes, which contained about five thousand families, and succeeded in stripping the peasants of basic private property, such as their homes and farm animals. To contribute to the mass steel production, people were forced to donate everything they owned, including woks, jewelry, and more, and if they did not provide anything, they would be considered "anti-Party," which could destroy their reputation and life. People were forced to lie about the amount of food they could produce, or else they would be beaten, which resulted in famine all over China. The Cultural Revolution was basically a power struggle between the members of the Communist Party of China, and a way to eliminate types of class enemies such as "rightists", "intellectuals", and "capitalist-roaders". Mao encouraged the violence which was brought about by the Red Guards, who were students and young people who basically attacked and torturted their elders and class enemies for the sake of Mao, and the Gang of Four, which was a terror group led by Mao's wife, Jiang Qing. Mao was an evil dictator who did everything he did to maintain his own power. He put himself before Communism and before China.
Suggested reading on the subject:
1. Wild Swans by Jung Chang
2. Mao: The Unknown Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday
3. Chairman Mao Talks to the People, edited by Stuart Schram
I hope this helped, I am a high school student who is writing about Mao for my research paper, and I feel I know a great deal about the subject.
He is not an evil, he did a lot of things which makes Chinese people have much better life. China will become the strongest country in the world. Even thought he did some bad things to maintain his own power. But how do you know leaders from other countries didn't do anything to maintain their power. Anyway, because of him, let lots china become so strong, all the Chinese are living under a wonderful country.
Uh Yea he is evil. He murdered a bunch of people! he was one of the worst killers (along with Stalin and Hitler) the world has ever seen. He could have made China better without killing a bunch of people.
Another question to ask is: Was ideology important for Mao?
What were the successes and failures of the long march in china?
One success of the Long March in China was that Mao Zedong came to power. The Long March was a series of marches or retreats by the Chinese Army to evade capture from Communist invading armies. Failures came about because many people lost their lives in the retreat and only one tenth of the Chinese army survived when it was done 370 days later.
How was Mao's vision of Communism different from that of Lenin's?
Mao's view of Communism was much more like Marx's while Lenin changed different aspects of Marx's theories.
2 Which was a result of the Cultural Revolution?
Intellectuals were persecuted throughout China.
Youth who had been part of the Red Guard were now un-educated. Millions of people were persecuted in the violent factional struggles that ensued across the country, and suffered a wide range of abuses including public humiliation, arbitrary imprisonment, torture, sustained harassment, and seizure of property.
Mao Zedong was convinced that a Chinese revolution would be driven by?
the poverty-stricken rural peasants
Is Mao Zedong a mass murderer?
As a chinese, yes. He killed far more people than even Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin. The Great Leap Forward was far more than just incompetence. On the first year, millions were dying. Mao kept it going for 2 more years, killing God knows how many. Then, the Cultural Revolution killed even more people, targetting people who were against, or even potentially able to be against, the Communist government. Historians are still arguing to this day how many tens of millions of people Mao killed. Somewhere in the 50-70 million range.
What does standard YouTube license means?
The standard YouTube licence is detailed in the Terms of Service, but basically you grant YouTube to broadcast your video on YouTube. Apart from that, you retain all copyright.
It means you allow people to watch your video, but not download it, copy, or distribute it. If you want people to be able to redistribute it you can select a Creative Commons license
The Chinese invented mind control during the Maoist regime.
What was the little red book Mao Zedong?
It was a little red book the size of a penny that prisoners had to try to read as a punishment
What happened to the Chinese when Mao Zendong took over?
Mao Zedong 1
(1893-1976)
Mao Zedong led China's Communist revolution in the 1920s and 1930s and became chairman
(chief of state) of the People's Republic of China in 1949, an office he held until 1959.
From "Mao Zedong." Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2001.
Mao Zedong was the foremost Chinese Communist leader of the 20th century and the
principal founder of the People's Republic of China.
Mao was born December 26, 1893, into a peasant family in the village of Shaoshan, Hunan
province. His father was a strict disciplinarian and Mao frequently rebelled against his
authority. Mao's early education was in the Confucian classics of Chinese history, literature,
and philosophy, but early teachers also exposed him to the ideas of progressive Confucian
reformers such as K'ang Yu-wei. In 1911 Mao moved to the provincial capital, Changsha,
where he briefly served as a soldier in Republican army in the 1911 revolution that overthrew
the Qing dynasty. While in Changsha, Mao read works on Western philosophy; he was also
greatly influenced by progressive newspapers and by journals such as New Youth, founded by
revolutionary leader Chen Duxiu.
In 1918, after graduating from the Hunan Teachers College in Changsha, Mao traveled to
Beijing and obtained a job in the Beijing University library under the head librarian, Li Dazhao.
Mao joined Li's study group that explored Marxist political and social thought and he became
an avid reader of Marxist writings. During the May Fourth Movement of 1919, when students
and intellectuals called for China's modernization, Mao published articles criticizing the
traditional values of Confucianism. He stressed the importance of physical strength and mental
willpower in the struggle against tradition. In Beijing, he also met and married his first wife,
Yang Kaihui, a Beijing University student and the daughter of Mao's high school teacher.
(When Mao was 14 his father had arranged a marriage for him with a local girl, but Mao never
recognized this marriage.)
In 1920 Mao returned to Changsha, where his attempt to organize a democratic government
for Hunan province failed. He traveled to Shanghai in 1921 and was present at the founding
How did most Americans react to Mao Zedong victory to China?
Americans who were aware of the civil war in China, had a bad reaction to the Mao Zedong victory in China. They saw a growing communist movement they deemed to be dangerous. This view was enhanced when North Korea was aided by China in the Korean War.
Why did Mao Zedong killed people?
"Mao Zedong did not actually kill people outside of the civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists." This is essentially a false assertion by those who are denying the evidence of history. There was an avoidable famine which caused millions to die. To say that 'this was actually an unintentional mishap after the government tried to reorganize farms', is a fools argument.
What the Chinese were trying to accomplish was similar to Stalin's first 5 year plan in which he attempted to increase manufacturing. In other words, his attempt to control and dominate millions upon millions of people and families, resulted in their deaths. Even if (as it is still argued in leftist circles) his intentions were good (which has clearly been shown to be a laughable, untrue thought) the results were horrific. Mao was singularly responsible for more deaths than any individual in human history. It wasn't just mass starvation, it was murder on a scale beyond imagination.
