China

CHINA VACATION WORK

**__ China __** ** Toward Revolution in China ** ** The Seizure of Power by China’s Guomindang ** ** Mao and the Peasant Option ** ** Mao’s China and Beyond ** ** Planning for Economic Growth and Social Justice ** ** “Women Hold Up Half of the Heavens” **
 * ** The abdication of Puyi, the Manchu boy-emperor marked the end of the Qing Dynasty in China. **
 * ** Yuan Shikai hoped to gain power from this lose of a figure head and to find a new Dynasty. **
 * **May Fourth Movement** ** started in **1919 as Westernization began to dominate the Chinese culture resistance began against Japan (symbol of Asian Westernization) by boycotts, riots, and destruction
 * **Li DaZhao**** is an ** intellectual that learned of the Marxist ideology and began to teach it in China.
 * **Mao Zedong** ** was a ** student of Li DaZhao.
 * ** Would become the leader of the Communist Party in China and unified the country again. **
 * ** The Guomindang were the Nationalist Party of China which would prove to be the greatest rivals of the Communists. **
 * **Chiang Kai-Shek** ** was the ** founder and ran the Whampoa Military Academy in 1924
 * Chaing intended to eliminate the Communist party and establish the dominance of the Nationalist party.
 * Zedong looked at the Peasants for a support of a revolution after Kai-shek gained power.
 * **Long March** ** was when **Mao led 90,000 troops to Shaxi
 * The troops stayed until the Japanese invasion of China in WWII
 * The Nationalist Party took over China in the 1920s
 * After their victory in the long civil war against the Guomindang in 1949, Chinese communists faced the formidable task of governing a vast nation in ruins. In their pursuit of economic development and social reform, the communists sought to build on the base they had established in the “liberated” zones during their struggle for power.
 * **People's Republic of China** ** was **established in 1949 by Mao Zedong
 * ** Aid was given to the peasants **
 * The Nationalists were removed from China
 * <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list .5in;">The new leaders of China looked to make reforms in the rural parts of China.
 * <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">**Mass Line Approach** ** was ** agricultural cooperatives were formed in 1955 after China had completely become a peasant kingdom
 * <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.5in;">China would have to industrialize to become a dominant nation to recon with.
 * <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.5in;">The cooperatives accounted for 90 of the peasant population
 * <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">**Great Leap Forward**** in **1958. Mao encouraged people to use their own materials to create their own goods
 * <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.5in;">He did not want large scale industrialization but rather start in small rural locations.
 * <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.5in;">It ended up being devastating to the population as it drained the economy and created the worst famine in China’s communist history.
 * <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list .5in;">It is visible that women begin to be released by the bounds of the customs of society.
 * <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">Effort was mad to put foot binding to an end and also legal rights for women.
 * <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list .5in;">**Jiang Qing** ** was ** Mao Zedong's wife
 * <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">Used her power with her husband to help promote equal rights for women.
 * <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.5in;">Was against the subordination of women.
 * <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.5in;">She met much success as the social and legal rights of women but there were still less job opportunities.
 * <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list .5in;">**Cultural** **Revolution-** 1965- Mao's last campaign.
 * <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.0in;">Mao had lost power.
 * <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.5in;">he inspired students to form groups like the:
 * <span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 2.0in;">**Red Guard** which were essentially armies that fought against Mao's rivals
 * ** Gang of Four **** was a group that tried to contest the power of Mao but they were stopped and arrested **

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 * Name of Leader:Mao Zedong ||
 * Lifespan:1893-1976 || Title: The Leader of the Communist Party ||
 * Country/region: China || Years in Power 1949-1976 ||
 * Political, Social, & Economic Conditions Prior to Leaders Gaining Power
 * There was no centralized power.
 * The Nationalist party had much control over the government
 * The economy was very weak
 * Society was empoverished and unhappy with the rule. ||
 * Ideology, Motivation, Goals:
 * Lenin and Marxist beliefs were his ideology
 * He wanted to represent the peasants.
 * He wanted to unify China. ||
 * Significant Actions & events During Term of Power
 * He was able to eliminate the Nationalist movement.
 * Started the Great Leap Forward and single handedly put China into an economic recession.
 * Was able to stand the challeng of the Gang of Four ||
 * Short-Term effects:
 * Unified China under one common system.
 * Brought one of the worst famine to the communist history of China. || Long-Term Effects
 * Unified China into the country it is today.
 * Introduced Communism to the political system of China. ||
 * China is becoming worse and worse through riots and and strikes.
 * Chinese government is looking to help the people and to keep them out of harm
 * China doesn't want to stay in such bad state
 * The rioting of the people seems to be reversing the Chinese state in the direction they don't want to go in.
 * 1) He believes that it is the protesting that has led to the weakening of the government.
 * 2) He tries to persuade the ordinary Chinese by telling them that nothing good will come out of the rioting.
 * 3) He is trying to establish a strong and unified China again. He seems to reflect some communistic beliefs with his push for industrialization.
 * 4) They did not have it in the past and seemed unfit to govern the multitudes of people that China encompasses.

__ Analyze the changes and continuities in Chinese politics from 1914 to the present __ Chinese politics would be in chaos as they looked for a single government to rule. Although the Nationalists gained power, the Communists would take it and hold on to it. Beaucracy developed however and threatened the totalitarian rule. __ Analyze the changes in Chinese Society from 1914 to the present __ Chinese society always remained about Confucious beliefs as they even exist today, women made gains towards more social equality and a rebirth of the "cockiness" of the power of China occured.