Mao Tse Tung : A Chinese Dictator Responsible For Over 49 Million Deaths

The cultural revolution is a strange period in Chinese history laced with intense struggle and anguish. The cultural revolution mobilized the all of society to compete for all opposing factions that they belonged to (Ong, 2016). Mao mobilized the young people of society during a background of political turmoil, which helped Mao to mobilize the students in order to enforce his political legitimacy and ideas (Ong, 2016). Mao’s charismatic authority created his personality cult and most defiantly leant a helping hand in mobilizing the red guard movement (Ong, 2016) (Weber, 1946) (Andreas, 2007). No matter which faction of the red guard they belonged to, they all mobilized against their common enemy; the better off, upper class. (Ong, 2016). Multiple ideologies within the youth led red guard movement explain why the movement gained momentum and became incredibly powerful (Walder, 2009).

Mao Zedong was a Chinese communist and father of the People’s Republic of China. Mao Zedong grew up farming and had arranged marriage. He got his power by getting a lot of support from peasants from China. The communists were led by Mao Zedong. The Chinese communists got their power in 1949. Mao Zedong did not make a better society economically because he did not improve the quality of lives for people because there wasn’t enough jobs. He did make a better society socially because he improved living conditions, women got freedom after the law, and expanded education.

After a preliminary analysis of my constructed topic, a few common themes are clearly present and discernible in relation to Mao’s perception as a hero or villain. At such present time of my research, I am begging to develop and contextualise a clear understanding of how I will ultimately answer mu question and I have incorporated the aspects of inquiry as well as representativeness and corroboration already into my research. In relation to being a villain, it is clear the wide spread death and his subsequent concern as a result of his movements represents his criminal persona. This is coming across in my main pieces of evidence up to this point. This is also indicating Mao’s motives and subsequently the effect it had on a specific group of people, in this case is the Chinese’s public. His movements also indicate somewhat his self-interest in developing his humongous ideological campaign. Despite this, it is vital I further investigate how in comparison that these movements were responsible for his widespread perception of a hero and as such find a myriad of perspectives that develop a common idea that the implementation of movements such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural revolution was specifically the reason for Mao being viewed as a hero.

Mao Zedong was a military leader, a soldier, a principle of the Chinese Marxist theorists, and the man who led his nations cultural revolution. There are so many ways that Mao seems to be the perfect man the man who has his life together and he was a very good self promoter. He is what you could say make China 's communism a big deal during the Cold War. The Chinese revolution was placed around 4 years after the war and you could say that Mao had a big impact in that. Being that he did lead the revolution, he was the man who kind of impacted a part of

Mao’s strength and superior methods allowed to him to exploit the weaknesses of the GMD government. Mao believed that a permanent, two-stage revolution derived from the peasants was a key aspect. Thus the support of the peasants was crucial success to any political party and Mao’s strategy for winning their support was discipline and land reform. He believed rent reduction must be the result of mass struggle, not a favour from the government and the policy of

Mao was the leader of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Above everything, he was a communist. His world revolves around him being a communist (Wood, 8, Class Notes). He believed that the world was divided into two separate sides, the communists and the capitalists. This shaped the way in which he conducted matters for mainland China because everything he did was justified by his communist ideologies (Mao, 13). Many of the things he did was because he always thought about communism being his number one priority. The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution are two main events that Mao led that shape his worldviews in having an underlying tone of communism which will be discussed later on in the essay. Mao wanted equality within all aspects of life throughout all classes in society. He believed that every individual should be treated the same (Mao, 19).

In 1919, Mao Zedong helped to establish the city of Changsha by attracting a variety of organizations. One organization was to bring the students, the merchants and the workers together in demonstrations aimed at making the government to oppose Japan. Mao Zedong’s five Year Plan was an attempt by him to boost China’s industry and become more powerful. When Zedong came to power, China was way behind the industrial nations of the planet. “He set ambitious goals for the production of iron and steel, coal, cement, and electrical power. Thousands of factories were to be built and an army of workers was mobilized to staff them.” (80). His plan worked in most cases, but also killed millions of peasants in the process. Chairman Mao also had another plan. This one was said to transform the way hundreds of millions of peasants lived and worked. Mr. Zedong urged all the peasants to give up farming and join cooperatives. Cooperatives were large farms that Zedong believed produce crops more efficiently than private farms. His slogan for this was “More, Better, Faster,” . This plan was one of his many plans that actually worked, at least for a

Born in 1893 in the farming community of Shaoshan, Mao was born into in adequate life in contrast to other struggling farmers of the region. At that time, China was a shell of its former glory when was led by the Qing dynasty who did not do anything to thrust the nation to better heights. Mao’s nationalistic outlook and desire for a stronger China is what eventually led him to join the Kuomintang nationalist party led by Sun Yat-sen which managed to overthrow the monarchy and turn China into a republic in 1912. After completing school as a certified teacher in 1918, Mao heard of the successful revolution in Russia which established the Soviet Union. Mao saw communism as a plausible way to make China even stronger and he became a major leader in the Chinese Communist Party. Despite supporting the Kuomintang government and the CCP at the same time, Mao eventually adopted Vladimir Lenin’s ideals and rose up in power within the party. This was

Imperialism, capitalism, and anti-imperialism played a role in the revolutions that changed China. In 1919, Lenin founded the Comintern, “to help the national struggles of the oppressed nations”. (Zarrow, p.190) Russia wanted to show the Chinese that their revolution could be copied. After the May Fourth movement, two political parties formed. The Chinese Communist Party and the Guomindang. The Guomindang (GMD) was a Nationalist party, however, both parties were more disciplined, structured, and valued loyalty to their respective leaders than groups before them. (Zarrow, p.192)

It is clear that Mao’s initial goal was to gain power in China, which is demonstrated by his determination to overthrow Chiang Kai-shek and the Kuomintang (KMT) via his idiosyncratic version of communist revolution. In order to do so, Mao utilised methods he deemed most suitable for the communists and, more broadly, Chinese society. For example, unlike his Marxist predecessors, Mao believed that peasants, not urban workers, were the key to rebellion in China. Subsequently, in 1926, he organised peasant unions

Mao would become a major party figure around the 1920s and would become one of the major twelve founders of the Chinese Communist Party or CCP. By the 1920s there were two dominant political parties in china, the Guomintang who were created by Sun Yatsen and the Chinese Communist Party. Early in the CCP’s lifespan in 1923 they would enter an alliance with Guomintang known as the United Front, the goal of the alliance was to end warlordism in China however the GMT’s priority was to eliminate the communists. Halfway through their expedition the GMT initiated on the CCP, inciting a civil war known as the “White terror” an extermination that would last from 1927 to 1939 crippling the CCP and nearly destroying them. Mao managed to survive by taking his CCP forces to the Jiangxi province where they relied on guerrilla tactics which was called the Autumn Harvesting Rising. Eventually the GMD would gain control of china but they're grasp was weak and did not have much power. Beginning in 1935, which was dubbed as the Yanan years Mao begun with purging opponents in the party similar to that of Stalin, and then began his strategy of a peasant revolution. At the time peasants made of 80 percent of China’s total

Mao Zedong was born in 1893, into a China that was suffering greatly. The Qing Dynasty was spiraling into disaster, but while most of China’s peasants were suffering Mao’s own peasant family was doing quite well. Growing increasingly restless, Mao left home at age 17 to study and in 1918 he graduated to become a teacher. He travelled to Beijing, but found there to be little work for teachers, so instead he began working at a university library and reading Marxist literature. It was the time of the Russian Revolution and Mao was eager and interested in politics. In 1921 he became a founding member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Mao Zedong was a worshipped Chinese politician who lead the communist revolution. He founded the People’s Republic of China and he ruled as the chairman of the CPC, or Communist Party of China. Mao made a huge impact on China that is still present today. Many people are respectful of Mao for bringing China together and founding the People’s Republic of China. He was born in the Hunan province of China in 1893, and he died in 1976 at the age of 82.

Chairman Mao, Chinese communism revolutionary and also referred to the founding father of People’s Republic of China.

The Chinese Revolution featured peasants instead of workers as the major constituents in organizing and initiating political movements. This points out a crucial divergence of China’s communist revolution from its Russian or other Western counterparts where the revolution was waged by urban workers, resulting from the tension between the proletariat and the bourgeois emerging from the capitalist development. In China, however, only the ideological dimension of such revolution stood; while workers, peasants, and soldiers were moved to the top of the class, in practice, the significance and function of workers in relation to the revolution, before or after, was put on a question mark. Different generations of scholars have addressed this issue. This report therefore examines the question with the role of the worker in Chinese Revolution addressed in the assigned articles of this week, focusing on the discussions by Joe C. Huang, Elizabeth Perry, and Andrew Walder, on the dis/continuity of Chinese working class in pre- and post-1949 eras.