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The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social campaign within China from 1958 to 1962, led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Party Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to transform the country from an agrarian society into an industrialized society through the formation of people's communes.
Three Red Banners (Chinese: 三面红旗) was an ideological slogan in the late 1950s which called on the Chinese people to build a socialist state.The "Three Red Banners" also called the "Three Red Flags," consisted of the General Line for socialist construction, the Great Leap Forward and the people's communes.
During the Great Leap Forward, big-character posters were also used in rural villages to rectify the operation of People's Communes and to promote production. [62] Many news articles claimed that big-character posters had motivated farmers and contributed to an increase in production.
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The propaganda posters offered no scientific explanation for why the campaign was necessary. Instead, they featured dramatic depictions of children heroically exterminating the pests, and hence playing their role in the Great Leap Forward. The propaganda served to frame the campaign as more than an effort to improve hygiene.
[15] [16] However, the Great Leap Forward caused tens of millions of deaths during the Great Chinese Famine, forcing Mao to take a semi-retired role in 1962. [17] [18] The reputation of Liu Shaoqi, the 2nd President of China, grew so high that challenged the status of Mao. [18] [19] As response, Mao launched the Socialist Education Movement in ...
The Great Leap Forward stemmed from multiple factors, including "the purge of intellectuals, the surge of less-educated radicals, the need to find new ways to generate domestic capital, rising enthusiasm about the potential results mass mobilization might produce, and reaction against the sociopolitical results of the Soviet's development ...
A propaganda poster with Iron Girls. Iron Girls (sometimes translated as Iron Women) is a term that was popularized in China during the 1950s through the 1970s.It was used to define a new idealized emerging group of working women who were strong and capable of performing highly demanding labor tasks, usually assigned to men.