Little Red Book
Example or Mao Zedong's Little Red Book.
- published bu Government of the People's Republic of China
- April 1964
- Collection of quotations
- Mao Zedong's past speeches and publications
- Four Olds to be destroyed (culture, customs, virtues, tradition)
The Last Emperor
Pu Yi when he fist started ruling.
- Pu Yi
- from 1908 to 1950
- Young boy ruling China
- Consultants helped make decisions
- Shows reform
Shanghai Massacre
Some aftermath of the Massacre.
- Chinese Civil War
- April 1927
- fought between Nationalists and Communists
- War of Liberation
- forced Communists to hide
People's Liberation Army (PLA)
More modern PLA.
- Unified military organization
- sea, land, strategic missle, and air forces
- People's Republic of China
- Mao's Army
- broke Nationalists' lines
- began Long March
The Long March
Map of the Long March trek.
- 1934
- People's Liberation Army (PLA) began the March
- 6000 miles to NW China
- fight all the way
- starved or froze
- reach safety
- 9000 of 90000 survived
New Life Movement
Chiang and his educated wife started the NLM.
- Chiang Kai-shek and wife set up
- 1934
- counter Communism ideology with traditional confuciansim
- reject excessive individualism and material greed
Great Leap Forward
People in China pushing their hopes forward.
- Chinese economic plan
- aimed at revitalizing all sectors of economy
- initialized by Mao Zedong
- 1957
- disaster
- 15,000,000 people died
Great Proletarian Culture Revolution
A poster advertising Mao's Culture Revolution.
- mass mobilization of urban Chinese youth
- inaugurated by Mao Zedong
- attempted to prevent development of bureaucratized soviet style of Communism
- Permanent Revolution
- 1966
- Little Red Books
- Red Guards
Korean War
Troop watches enemy get bombarded.
- Conflict between Communists (north) and non-Communists (south)
- in Korea
- 1950-1953
- North invades South
- armistice 1953
Redistribution of Wealth
Chinese currency.
- Intended to even out amount of income individuals are permitted to earn
- took money from wealthy
- gave money to poor
- Mao in rule
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