Mao Zedong : A Leader Of The People 's Republic Of China

Brief Introduction: Document 8.2 is the first four sections of “Mao Zedong’s Report on an Investigation of Peasant Movement in Hunan”, which was written by Mao Zedong when he visited Hunan province in 1927. In this document, from personal perspective, Mao argued the importance of the peasant issues, then described how the peasant associations became organized, how the peasants fought with the local tyrants and gentry, and how they became powerful in rural areas. Finally, Mao gave his own definition of “It’s terrible!” and “It’s fine!”.

This paper aims to find out the differences between the developmental strategies of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping are important characters of China's history. Both great leaders and both tried to bring about reform with China. In addition, through the facts that society in China has been changing in recent decades, evaluate the achievements of each in the contribution to economic and social development of China.

His plan-the reason everything went downhill. Poor Mao, he just wanted a turning point in the cold war. But oh lord, did it not work out. The “great leap forward” have you ever heard the term, “Rome wasn't built in a day” well, not for our good buddy Mao though. It was built in a day in fact over just a few seconds. Instead of causally building an industrial empire slowly he wanted it now, and he wanted it fast. So, what’d he do?! Oh, nothing much really, just forced a bunch of citizens to work full time in factories with little to no pay, hardly enough food, and an over active criminal justice system. People were either starved, beaten, or worked to death. It was estimated that 45,000,000 people died in just 4 years from his plan. The horrors of what he did were worse than Hitler and almost Stalin’s genocide. Mao wanted an industrial empire so badly that what he did was seen as a genocide and a crime against humanity. This is why history regard Mao as a villain even though he forced a large amount of his country to see him as a hero through the brainwashing of the young, and Stockholm syndrome. The kids were told that he was a hero and told of all of the good things that he had done. The older that had actually lived to witness what he did were struck with fear to even try to oppose him. Of Course they waited until he died to take over and reverse and fix what he had done. Everything that Mao had

The word genocide, derived from the Greek roots genos (people) and cide (killing), did not enter the English language until 1944; the end of World War II. According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the term means, “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group.” Not everybody believes genocides continue to this day, other may have a different opinion or thoughts. Sometimes people don’t see the genocide they’ve created because they believe their methods are not causing any harm because they are not affected nearly as much as the people around them.. To be taken away from family, to be forced to live somewhere else, or to be killed can have a huge impact on life. Genocides play a huge role in the world

With the elimination of the Japanese threat by 1945, the demoralization of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) in 1949, and the conclusion of the Korean War by 1953, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the party’s leader, Mao Zedong, internalized efforts and re-established order within the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Under Mao’s leadership, the PRC experienced immediate and influential reforms ⎯ most notably the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Great Leap Forward, and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution ⎯ that benefitted the PRC at first, but later steered the nation to unprecedented political, social, and economic turmoil. By 1976, the year of his death, Mao had left China in widespread chaos and civil unrest with millions of Chinese dead, starving, and impoverished. By 1979, Chinese statesman Deng Xiaoping emerged to become China’s undisputed leader after defeating Hua Guofeng, Mao’s chosen successor. With his superior political skills and decades of experience, Deng engineered vital economic, political, social reforms that would help restore China from the amounting unrest Mao established between 1957 and 1976. However, similar to Mao, Deng also confronted opposition and problematic events that tarnished his legacy. Ultimately, not only did Mao’s aspirations for China fail to completely coincide with reality, but also the aftermath of his ideals produced unwarranted consequences. Consequently, by implementing a more practical government and minimizing the

After the WWII alliance with the Soviet Union collapsed in mutual distrust, the administration of Harry Truman began a policy of “Containment.” This meant checking on perceived communist aggression anywhere in the world. While seeking to prevent Communist ideology from gaining further adherents in Europe, the United States also responded to challenges elsewhere. In China, Americans worried about the advances of Mao Zedong and his Communist Party. During World War II, the Nationalist government under Chiang Kai-shek and the Communist forces waged a civil war even as they fought the Japanese. Chiang had been a war-time ally, but his government was hopelessly inefficient and corrupt. American policy makers had little hope of saving his regime

Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping were both very successful Communist leaders that the people of China loved, but they both had their ups and downs. Mao Zedong was a Chinese Communist ruler who was born in 1893 and died in 1976. He founded the China’s Communist Party or CCP. Deng Xiaoping was a first generation of the Communist leaders. Deng Xiaoping lived from 1904 to 1997. He started to rule shortly after Mao died.

One of the main aspects of Communism under Mao was the redistribution of land. His main reason to re distribute all the land was because he wanted to eliminate the amount of land ownership by the landlords who were upper class and allow peasants to have land ownership so that the economy of China could grow. If only the upper class were able to attain ownership then the rest of China would not be able to make money and help the economic sector of China, which would make them fall behind other countries. The peasants had no problem with this new law that Mao was enforcing, but on the other hand it did not sit well with the landlords. Violence broke involving the redistribution of land and any one who refused was killed.

According to the both article North Korea’s Underground Railroad to Thailand and Mao Zedong and the long march, they both have similarity and differences.

More murderous than Hitler, more powerful than Stalin, in the battle of the Communist leaders Mao Zedong trumps all. Born into a comfortable peasant family, Mao would rise up to become China’s great leader. After leading the communists away from Kuomintang rule, he set out to modernize China, but the results of this audacious move were horrific. He rebounded from his failures time and again, and used his influence to eliminate his enemies and to purge China of its old ways. Mao saw a brighter future for China, but it was not within his grasp; his Cultural Revolution was not as successful as he had wanted it to be. Liberator, oppressor, revolutionary, Mao Zedong was the greatest emancipator in China’s history, as his reforms and actions changed not only the history of China, but of the wider world.

We have a discussion meeting outside the class with Non and Nammon because I didn’t come to class last Tuesday. Non told me that Mao Zedong journey was more dangerous. He thought Mao Zedong revolution took more time than Hannibal so this make this journey look dangerous and difficult. Nammon also thought this way too. Non also told me that you can still see people who take on foot journey. Scout camp is a good example of foot journey, Non said. This camp will make them get stronger at survival in the forest.

After Yat-sen died and Chiang Kai-shek surprise turn on the CCP, Mao immediately stepped up to fill the void. Mao began to mobilize the peasants and the poor through the rural areas in China. Mao believed that if China was to emerge as a world power the foundation building must begin at the bottom with China’s peasants and poor people. Mao traveled extensively throughout the country-side to capture, first hand, his account about the peasant movement. In Mao’s report on the Peasant Movement in Hunan he describes the organizing and rising of the peasants. Mao stated that the upsurge of the peasant movement was a colossal event (Cheek, Mao, 42).

Both had contributed to his rise in power and influence in the CCP and also both went hand in hand with each other. As Womack mentions that the dogmatic excesses of the later Mao would not have been possible without the pragmatic populism of the early Mao. Also that his intellectual development, and his learning process of the first half of his life provided the foundation for his successful leadership of the Chinese Revolution. Womack also argues that his youthful thinking had a more distant and problematic relationship to his post-1949 leadership, where he not apply both when thinking of his Great Leap Forward idea. Overall, the task of the book was to help readers analyze the development of Mao as a political actor from his initial socialization in to the revolutions of the early twentieth-century China through his survival-driven rise of his rural revolution to his revision of the revolutionary leadership in the aftermath of the Long March. Despite the desperate situation of the CCP in 1937, Mao was able to overcome the obstacles and faced his new beginning in Yan’an with a confidence built on the solid foundation of his earlier experience or “early Mao” and applying it to his “later

Deng Xiaoping has been the individual with the most impact on China since the 1970’s. Along with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, he is looked at as one of the key figures in evolution of communism in China . Deng Xiaoping will be remembered as a national hero, but this was not always the case. The real story of Deng includes the fact that, on more than one occasion, his peers ostracized him. During his lifetime he has been a part of the many changes in China throughout the twentieth century. He was by Mao Zedong’s side through all of the struggles of the Chinese Communist Party; battling with Chiang Kai-shek and the Guomindang over

In 1949 a powerful communist leader by the name of Mao Zedong came to power based on his idea for a, “Great Leap Forward.” This idea was meant to bring China’s economy into the twentieth century. He had assembled a revolutionary government using traditional Chinese ideals of filial piety, harmony, and order. Mao's cult of personality, party purges, and political policies reflect Mao's esteem of these traditional Chinese ideals and history. However, the product of this revolution created a massive national shortage in vital materials and initiated a wide scale famine to China’s people (Gabriel).