MAO'S WAY
Directions: Write a response paper concerning the following issue. Provide a limited bibliography outlining your sources.
How did Mao, who inherited a country beset by political, social and economic deprivation, mobilize the Chinese masses in just 30 years, and strive for an economic recovery that some analysts equate to the American industrial revolution, a socio-economic change that encompassed 150 years of development.
Describe four factors that influenced Mao’s revival.
Due Monday April 4th
Due Monday April 4th
I've already turned my paper into you!!!!!!!
ReplyDelete-Chelsey A.
MAO'S WAY
ReplyDelete--Mao decided to opt for a unique Chinese method of industrialization (peasents turned to steel factories)
--Mao pushed a new crusade to transform their Chinese culture more communist (Buddhist and Confucian)
--Mao concentrated on the thriving students of the start of his reign sending students off to work and become productive to the society
--Mao modernized China, both its rural economy and ideology letting the lower and middle classes become intertwined and play an important role in the "new" society of life
Grey M.
-Mao led the CPC to victory against the KMT in the Chinese civil war. This began his reign as the head of People's Republic of China.
ReplyDelete-Several of Mao's ideas came from the Russian Revolution.
-Mao focused much of his energy on improving production levels. He also met with several CEO's about moving their businesses to China.
-Mao worked to begin a nuclear arms defense program.
James Watson
Premier Mao Zedong was able to bring about a massive Chinese revival via:
ReplyDelete-Establishing the state still known today as the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the party that has headed it since its inception in 1949, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
-Transforming the traditionally agraian-based economy of the Chinese peasantry into an industrialized and more econmically efficient workforce
-Initiating sweeping declarations such as the Great Leap Forward and the Glorious Revolution to further extend the new wave of policies that promoted the ideologies of socialism/communism over any other form of governmental organization, especially capitalism
-Establishing military forces, the Chinese People's Volunteer Army (PVA) and the People's Liberation Army (PLA), with the latter still in formation and having the highest number of active soldiers in history with approximately 3 million members, of which 2.25 million are part of the PRC's standing army
-Urnne
Mao's revival was influenced by:
ReplyDelete- The Great Leap Forward and its intent to prosper in economic ways and show that the Chinese would be more developmentally successful than the Soviet Union. They did this buy building steel furnaces and introducing the people's communes. After this failed, he introduced the Cultural Revolution.
-Using ideas of the Russian Revolution to help in making China flourish.
-His use of guerrilla warfare tactics which appealed to the local population's nationalist beliefs, and Mao's agrarian policies gained broad support among the peasants and military advantages against their enemies.
-Creating the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party, the entity of the PRC.
Giorgia G.
Mao Zedong was able to bring together the Chinese masses and bring about economic growth in just a few years, through four main components:
ReplyDelete1. China before Mao Zedong had been in a volatile state since the end of the Qing Dynasty. Through his victory over the KMT and Chiang Kai-Shek, it was Mao Zedong who united the country after years of war and domestic unrest.
2. Through the creation of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party, he created a sense of nationalism and with that the Cultural Revolution; thus, bringing about change to the political, economic and social landscape of China.
3. Along with the Cultural Revolution, the Great Leap Forward helped to modernize China's rural economy and promote the ideology of communism.
4. Mao also took steps to change the agrarian-based economy of the Chinese, into a more industrialized society, by changing the Russian form of industrial development into something more suitable. Mao used the peasantry to make steel on a decentralized basis through back yard steel furnaces.
I found all of these answers in my notes.
-Caroline H.
Mao's Way
ReplyDelete1. The Cultural Revolution was launched by Mao Zedong during his last
decade in power to renew the spirit of the Chinese revolution.
2. He wanted to provide China's youths with a revolutionary experience.
3. He organized huge groups called the Red Guards.
4. He shut down China's schools, and during the following months he encouraged Red Guards to attack all traditional values and "bourgeois" things and to test party officials by publicly criticizing them.
-Caroline B.
Four factors that influenced Mao's revival:
ReplyDelete*The overall mindset of the Fourth National People's Congress, January 1975, that China needed to establish "a powerful modern socialist country". This pushed Mao to progress towards the "modernisation of agriculture, industry, national defence and science and technology".
*The need for a widespread "Cultural Revolution" all over China had Mao creating a new group of activist: The Red Guards.
*The criticism against high ranking leaders, by mostly the Red Guard, helped influenced Mao's revival because it help removed leaders such as Deng Xiaoping and Liu Shaoq.
*The "Dramas of the Ming Mandarin" is probably one of the most important imflunces to Mao's revival. It is widely believed that this play is one of the main components that sparked the Cultural Revolution.
CASEY LO
MAO'S WAY
ReplyDelete~ Mao was China's form of a "Robin Hood" character in that coming from a poor peasant family he was able to connect with the poor and gain Communism support through taking land from the rich and giving to the poor.
~ Mao was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party since its founding in 1921
~ Industrialization- from 1949 to 1960 China under Mao used the Russian strategy of industrialization and created many large factories
~ In 1964 Mao began pushing a new crusade to transform the Chinese culture to form a purely Communist society
-Bradley Benson
Mao came in a time of great peril for the nation of China and realized it's need for modernization; which also lead to industrialization of whole of China.
ReplyDeleteMao reunited the country after disputes of violence.
Mao sparked the cultural revolution the transformed China
Created the Red Guards
Adam Eldin
-he used the ccp in order to involve large groups of the population, the ruling groups, and the government.
ReplyDelete- Mao also believed that engineers,scientist, and factory managers were acquiring too much power at his expense.
-He purged the ccp of unfaithful supporters and created a China which had all people working together essentially a classless society.
-All schools and colleges were closed
Mary Helen Simpson
Mao Zedong’s mobilization of the Chinese masses in thirty years, and subsequent economic recovery, was accomplished through the following:
ReplyDelete1. Intense propaganda as evidenced by trials of landlords.
One of the Communist Party’s first steps after assuming power was to purge the disloyal of power. Through Mao’s propaganda, peasants were encouraged “to denounce crimes committed by former rulers” (notes). Thus Mao’s regime and the masses became intertwined.
2. Seeming improvement of the lower classes.
Mao’s Great Leap Forward was an attempt to industrialize China. He disallowed private ownership of land while requiring peasants to live in dormitories in the cities. This shift from agriculture to industry allowed for the lower classes to assume more significant roles in society, as they became necessary for the government’s legitimacy (notes).
3. Cultural transition from tradition to communism.
The Cultural Revolution began in 1964 and shifted Chinese culture away from traditional Confucian and Buddhist elements. This allowed Mao and the Communist Party to interject their principles, which led to societal acceptance of later CPC resolutions (notes).
4. And communist ideology itself.
Mao Zedong and the Chinese nomenklatura mobilized the masses and recovered the economy through implementation of Communist policy. Because this regime was communist, the masses had a necessary role. Through communism and its essentially equal economic ideology, the masses played an integral role in Mao’s China.
First, Mao convinced the peasantry that his government was crucial, and it was awarded legitimacy. He allowed them to have a legal voice when the government acted upon their denouncement of disloyal landlords. Zedong kept their respect when he instituted the Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution. And his communist principles kept massive complacency amongst the nation’s proletariat.
-Julia S
Mao's Way
ReplyDelete-Mao attempted to modernise Chine's economy with The Great Leap Forward so that by 1988, China would have an economy that rivalled America.
-After the failure of the Great Leap Forward, Mao introduced a Cultural Revolution designed to increase socialism by removing capitalist elements in Chinese society.
-He created the People's Republic of China to increase nationalism.
-He used a Russian strategy for industrialization.
Summer Debnam
-Mao took land from the few rich and gave it to the many poor meaning he had the support of the people and also gave them more to spend.
ReplyDelete-He started the efforts of communal farming so that all had crops to feed there familys.
-Mao started the steel factory in the backyard idea which rapidly industrialized China.
-He convinced the people to join together as one to improve their way of life.
Caleb
Generic introduction to the topic already thoroughly discussed:
ReplyDeleteMao's Way through four main influences:
1) Leading the communist party, he created a similar mindset among the people of the chinese nation giving him power over the lower classes.
2) Using refined military tactics to lead his armies into victories against other warlords, Mao established China as a dominant force.
and most importantly:
3) Through the Great Leap Forward, Mao took the risk of pushing a country into industrialization. A country that was arguably not ready; however, Mao was still successful, only strengthening his control over China.
4) The Cultural Revolution allowed Mao to eradicate traces of capitalism, allowing communism to slowly take hold of the country, for the most part unopposed.
Mao was an excellent leader that laid the foundations for the superpower that China has become today.
(all above is from notes or hnn.us)
Luke
1. Mao Zedong had control over the information people had access to--this equates, yes, to propaganda. When he assumed power, he brought all media under the Communist Party's control and used it to promote the image of himself and the party. He vilified Chiang Kai-Shek and encouraged the people to devote themselves completely to the building and strengthening of their country through the Communist ideology. He was also incredibly successful in creating a cult of personality surrounding him.
ReplyDelete2. Next we have land reform(empowerment of the peasants), and suppression of Counterrevolutionaries. Early on in Mao's rule, a significant number of landlords were beaten to death in mass meetings organized by the Party and their land was given to poorer peasants. Around this time, there was also organized a Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries. This was a campaign in which public executions of former Kuomintang officials, Western businessmen, and intellectuals were held often.
3. He began a series of Five-Year plans which are still in use to this day(China just approved the 12th Five-Year plan). This was an attempt at setting economic development goals and achieving them through careful planning and organization. The first Five-Year plan aimed to reduce China's dependency on agriculture, and the Second was known as the Great Leap Forward.
4. Mao believed that the old elite class was being replaced with a new one, and wanted to begin a cultural revolution that would keep China in a state of "perpetual revolution" that served the interests of the majority. This was, of course, the Cultural Revolution. It sought to change the economic, political, and social landscape of China by further cementing socialist ideals in the country and by removing capitalist ones completely.
So basically we have: Control of information and the creation of a cult of personality, appeasement and empowerment of peasants and execution of landowners and people with Western ideologies, careful planning of the economy to provide for the industrialization of China, and the stamping out of capitalist ideals and revitalization of Chinese thought during the Cultural Revolution. Way to go, Mao.
--Jarred S.
"Robin Hood Theory"
ReplyDelete-Mao discovered even in the 1920's that the Communists could win the support of the peasants by taking away land from the rich and sharing this with the poor.
The Defeat of the Japanese and KMT
-Once Mao brought the KMT & Japanese down to their knees, he was then in control of the entire mainland of China, that helped him establish the Russian idea of industrialization.
Industrialization(Great Leap Forward)
-Which wasn't exactly implemented the way the Russians had pictured but was still a great step for Mao in developing China as an industrial country.
C.Revolution
-Mao between 1961-63, made a huge push to make to entire country of China more Communist...any person who was considered "elite" and that didnt share the same ideal were more or less frowned upon
Alex Bryan
-Mao decided to make China an industrialized nation by moving the farmers from the rural areas into the cities
ReplyDelete- He promised them money by taking it from the rich and giving it to the poor, always having their support, and since the poor greatly outnumbered the rich, he had power in numbers.
-promoted the Great Leap Forward and Great Revolution to introduce new progressive policies
- Make up the People's Republic of China and Chinese Communist Party in order to give a sense of nationalism
-Opening up the national borders to show the rest of the world leaders of how China became powerful and promote communism
-Francisco d.
Mao's Way
ReplyDelete-Modernized China by letting the lower class and middle class combine
-He declared for a Chinese method of industrialization
-Focused largely on the pupils and desired that they be productive to the society
-Wanted a more communist culture
Taylor H.
-Mao, being the leader of the Communist party, had control over what infromation the people had access to. With this contol he brought the media under the power of the Communist party and made it so that it helped his self image. He encouraged the people of his country to live completly by the communist ideology.
ReplyDelete-The Great Leap Foward: Mao attempts to industrialize China. He required peasants to live in dorms and share communal kitchens and nursuries. This also allowed the lower class to take over more important roles in society, in the shift for agriculture to industry.
-The Cultural Revolution of 1964: Mao began a new crusade to transform the culture to make the country more purely communist.
-At the start of his reign he focused on students and sending them off to work and become more productive in society.
Molly Long
-Mao used the Russian strategy of industrialization, but in 1958 he decided to opt for a unique chinese method of Industrializations.
ReplyDelete-Mao supported the peasants by taking away land from the rich and giving it to the poor.
-The Great Leap Forward strengthened his power over China. He attempted to pushing his country into industrialization, although China was not ready for that drastic change.
-He organized groups called the Red Guards
All came from the notes.
Katie Buff
Mao tried industrialization like the Russians, but then asked the Russians to leave so he could run things himself. He then separated men and women in separate dormatories and made them work on collective farms and in factories while their children were raised communally. He made everyone equal so that he could gain support from the lower classes. Allowing the lower class as many rights and powers in the work force helped transform china into the industrialized society it is today. The Great Leap Forward made china industrial instead of agricultural. The cultural revolution of 1964changed things to a more communist way. And lastly, he let students go off to higher education and to start them in their careers to get a early start on working life.
ReplyDelete-Mary Fran
-Once the CPC beat out the KMT Mao focused heavily on the land reform he got the peasants on board by tieing them into the trials that were taking place around thhe country on KMT elites and landlords.
ReplyDelete-Beginning in 1949 Mao took the Russian industrialization strategies until around 1958 when he decided to change to a
unique Chinese method, where peasants could learn to make steel on a broadly decentralized basis
-Mao used a new plan economically every five years in order to adjust for changing times. Mao's ultimate goal was to change from a predominantly agricultural country to a more industrialed one.
-Mao when he entered at power really talked to the youth and stressed education. He sent many children to school that otherwise would not have the oppurtunity.
Kevin S.
(Notes)
-Mao led the communist party of China to victory over the KMT faction. This established him as not only a military force but legitimized his headership role.
ReplyDelete-Mao utilized indutrialization techniques from the USSR to help revitalize the economy.
-Mao supported the peasent class of his country. he gave them land that he had siezed from wealthy land owners so they could farm and strngthen their lives and in turn the lives of the Chinese people.
-Worked to educate youth and get them working in society so they could benefit the country as a whole.
-Ben E.
-Created the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party.
ReplyDelete-Brought China into modern world with The Great leap forward.
-Organized groups such as the Red Guards.
-Stressed education and demand of perfection leading to a very strict yet succesful culture and lifestyle.
-Led China to communisim and stressed everyone to be communist.
Nic C.
Mao created a new life for China. He created the communists party to settle down China after the tough turmoil they have beed through. He provided them with peace and financial security. He industrialized China through his decentralized by making steel. He use back yard steel furnises. He used revolutionary movements such as the great leap forward to promote his new ideology of communism. However, the people of China still are in restriction to the communists rule.
ReplyDeleteMK
-The Great Leap and its great effect to the economy shows how the Chinese can apply techonology. They did this by steel innvations and introducing the people's communes.
ReplyDelete-Mao used a new plan economically in order to adjust for changing times. Mao's ultimate goal was to change from a predominantly agricultural country to a more industrialed one
-Mao also made China an industrialized nation by moving the farmers from the rural areas into the cities to have workers in factories
-Using new military tactics for his armies leading to impressive victories establishing China as a dominant force
Livy F
-Mao was the communist leader of China
ReplyDelete-Mao wanted to modernize China's economy by using the Great Lead forward, so that in 1888, China's economy could rival that of the United States
-He began incorporating the lower class in other jobs and occupations that made them have an important role in society
-Mao seized land from the wealthy landlords, and redistributed it to the hard- working peasants.
-Organized the Red Guards
-Jake Willcox