Post on 18-Jan-2016
China in 1924China in 1924
Sun Yat-sen, head of the Nationalist Party
Mao Zedong As a Young Revolutionary
Two groups worked together to oppose the warlords and to drive out imperialist powers from China
Warlords
•Saw the Japanese as a threat, but thought that the Communists were much more dangerous
•Did not support the redistribution of wealth because he was supported by the rural landed gentry and the urban middle class
The Long March Communists, led by Mao Zedong, fought the larger Nationalist army by using guerilla tactics during the Long March
The Communist Victory
► 5 year plan to increase agriculture and industry
► Communes – combine collective farms together
The Great Leap Forward, 1958
►Increased literacy – women were given more rights
► Class privileges ended – racial equality
► Reduce Confucian values
►Good of community over individual rights
Communist China Under Mao
► Old Thoughts
► Old Culture
► Old Customs
► Old Habits
To Rebel Is Good!To Rebel Is Good!
Campaign against the “Four Olds”
►Led by the Urban working class
►Mao’s plans for this – Little Red Book
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
With regard to the great teacher Chairman Mao, cherish the word
'Loyalty'. With regard to the great Mao Zedong Thought, vigorously stress the
word 'Usefullness'. (1968)
With regard to the great teacher Chairman Mao, cherish the word
'Loyalty'. With regard to the great Mao Zedong Thought, vigorously stress the
word 'Usefullness'. (1968)
Cult of Personality
Propaganda PosterPropaganda Poster
Go among the workers, peasants and soldiers, and into the thick of
struggle!1967-1972
Go among the workers, peasants and soldiers, and into the thick of
struggle!1967-1972
Power StrugglePower Struggle
Modernists
Communist Traditionalis
ts
Zhou Enlai
“The Gang of Four”: Jiang Qin, Chen Boda, Wang Hongwen, Yao
Wenyuan
1976
Deng Xiaoping
““The 4 The 4 Modernizations”Modernizations”
Progress in:Progress in:•Agriculture
•Industry
•Technology
•National Defense
““The 4 The 4 Modernizations”Modernizations”
Progress in:Progress in:Allowed land to be leased to peasants
Invited foreign investors into China
Allowed sales of excess products (after rent was paid) & could produce goods for sale
DID NOT BRING THE FIFTH MODERNIZATION = DEMOCRACY
People who openly complained about the Communist Party were often jailed for long periods of time.
More democracy!
Tiananmen Square, 1989
Protestors called for an end to the corruption in the government
Tiananmen Square