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The country's Mao era lasted from the founding of the People's republic on 1 October 1949 [2] [3] to Deng Xiaoping's consolidation of power and policy reversal at the Third Plenum of the 11th Party Congress on 22 December 1978. The Mao era focuses on Mao Zedong's social movements from the early 1950s on, including land reform, the Great Leap ...
Short stated that landlord class were not exterminated as a people due to Mao's belief in redemption through thought reform, [251] and compared Mao with 19th-century Chinese reformers who challenged China's traditional beliefs in the era of China's clashes with Western colonial powers. Short writes that "Mao's tragedy and his grandeur were that ...
Mao Zedong (second from left in a dark uniform) and Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials meeting with United States Ambassador to China, Patrick Hurley (at center – in bow tie), at CCP headquarters in Yan'an, 1945. Map showing the communist-controlled Soviet Zones of China between 1929 and 1935.
Maoism, officially Mao Zedong Thought, [a] is a variety of Marxism–Leninism that Mao Zedong developed while trying to realize a socialist revolution in the agricultural, pre-industrial society of the Republic of China and later the People's Republic of China.
The Republic of China's first president, Sun Yat-sen, chose Zhōnghuá Mínguó (中華民國; 'Chinese People's State') as the country's official Chinese name.The name was derived from the language of the Tongmenghui's 1905 party manifesto, which proclaimed that the four goals of the Chinese revolution were "to expel the Manchu rulers, revive China (), establish a people's state (mínguó ...
Mao's first goal was a total overhaul of the land ownership system, and extensive land reforms, including the execution of more powerful landlords. China's old system of gentry landlord ownership of farmland and tenant peasants was replaced with a distribution system in favor of poor/landless peasants which significantly reduced economic ...
A collective meal as pictured in The 10th Anniversary Photo Collection of the PRC 1949-1959. The people's commune (Chinese: 人民公社; pinyin: rénmín gōngshè) was the highest of three administrative levels in rural areas of the People's Republic of China during the period from 1958 to 1983, until they were replaced by townships.
China in Disintegration: The Republican Era in Chinese History, 1912-1949. New York: Free Press. ISBN 0029286107. Shiroyama, Tomoko. China during the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937 (2008). Taylor, Jay. The Generalissimo: Chiang Kai-shek and the Struggle for Modern China (2009). van de Ven, Hans (2017).