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The famine did not go unnoticed and Mao was fully aware of the major famine that was sweeping the countryside, but rather than try to fix the problem he blamed it on counterrevolutionaries who were "hiding and dividing grain". [194] Mao even symbolically decided to abstain from eating meat in honor of those who were suffering. [194]
Jie genocide in the Ran Wei–Later Zhao War: 350–352 (Later Zhao and Ran Wei) Northern China More than 200,000 Jie people and other "barbarians" Ran Min massacred over 200,000 Jie people and other "barbarians". Non-Han in general were targeted by Ran Min's forces. Yangzhou merchants massacre: 760 (Tang) Yangzhou: thousands
Mao Zedong [a] (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976), also known as Chairman Mao, was a Chinese politician, revolutionary, and political theorist who founded the People's Republic of China (PRC) and led the country from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.
The Four Pests Campaign is representative of many of the overarching themes of Mao's Great Leap Forward. In order to expedite China's industrialization, and to achieve a socialist utopia, Mao sought to utilize China's natural and human resources. In this future utopia, cleanliness and hygiene would be critical. [13]
China's economy in 1976 was three times its 1949 size (but the size of the Chinese economy in 1949 was one-tenth of the size of the economy in 1936), and whilst Mao-era China acquired some of the attributes of a superpower such as: nuclear weapons and a space programme; the nation was still quite poor and backwards compared to the Soviet Union ...
Mao demanded that the communes increase grain production to feed the cities and to earn foreign exchange through exports. China must follow a different path to socialism than the Soviet Union, Mao told delegates, by allowing its peasants to participate in economic modernisation and making more use of their labour. [19] [7]
Mao and many other CCP members opposed these changes, believing that they would damage the worldwide communist movement. [7]: 4–7 Mao believed that Khrushchev was a revisionist, altering Marxist–Leninist concepts, which Mao claimed would give capitalists control of the USSR. Relations soured.
An example of the Map of National Shame: the 1933 New National Map for Elementary School Use by the World Geographical Society. The Map of National Shame (simplified Chinese: 国耻地图; traditional Chinese: 國恥地圖; Japanese: 国恥地図) is a map created around 1930 by the Nationalist government of the Republic of China, depicting territories that China perceived to have lost control ...