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Notes On China Revolution (Tiananmen Square)

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Grade: HSC
Subject: Modern History
Resource type: Notes
Written by: N/A
Year uploaded: 2021
Page length: 13
 

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The Legacy of the 1949 Revolution:

    • CCP wanted to introduce reforms based on fairness, land distribution, and liberation of women. 
  • Historian Dillon: “China had been transformed from an exploited country to a country in which the Chinese were masters of a new society”.
Category: Aspect: Legacy:
Social Population: 30% of all Chinese land had been redistributed more fairly. 
Education: Primary school attendance increased by 200%, and university graduation increased by 100%.
Gender Roles: Mao instigated a series of reforms design to liberate the oppression of women. Laws abolished the betrothal of children, force marriages, the purchasing of brides and the having of multiple wives.
Agriculture: People forced to work in strict conditions, and the poor weather resulted in a Great Famine in 1958 that caused 2 million deaths.
Political Population: 2-3% of the population were now members of the CCP.

The Hundred Flower Campaign:

  • Mao apparently used it as a ploy to coax dissidents into the open, “enticed the snakes out of their caves” (Mao).
  • The campaign allowed intellectuals to criticise the government. Out of this, Mao used violent means to solidify socialist beliefs on the PRC, which discouraged people from speaking out against the CCP for the future.
  • Loss of individual rights. 
Government: Three Campaigns introduced that critically impacted the composition of government:

  1. 500-800K of the Guomindang Nationalist Party were imprisoned or killed for ‘counter-revolutionary’.
  2. 25% of the employees working in finance and economics suspected of corruption were purged. 
  3. Workers were given the power to challenge the dealings of their bosses, which had changed the way the Chinese would conduct business.

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