Political Style Of Mao Zedong

Also according to document #5: after Mao Zedong’s rise to power he had set up and launched a 5-year plan from the years 1953-1958. His goal was to get rid of China’s dependence on agriculture to become a “world Power”. He had run manipulate campaigns to manipulate the people to doing and agreeing with what he wanted to g=do by doing “flower campaigns” and “supposed” (hypothetical) willingness to peoples different opinions, showing how he is just tricking people in to doing as he say and pretend to care for the people! Also doc 5 states “Given the freedom to express themselves, some Chinese began openly opposing the Communist Party and questioning its leadership”. Meaning that the people were speaking their mind and often speaking the truth about the ways of the communist party which werent always positive notes. However, later on just after a few months, Mao's government reversed its policy and punished anyone who criticized or was accused to have criticized the Communist Party. And the numbers/amount were believed to be as high as 500,000 people. Showing that Mao was evil because he didn’t want people speaking

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.

Brainwashing refers to the techniques systematically used to alter a person’s beliefs by using some sort of pressure on the human brain. This technique can be shown in the period right before the peak of the Cold War in the 1950s when the threat of Communism was becoming ever so real. By the thousands, American citizens gained an allegiance to Marxist ideologies and anti-capitalist doctrines. This can be shown in Communist government’s use of censorship of material to “brainwash” its people, especially subjects pertaining to capitalism.

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.

Getting caught up in propaganda will slowly make people brainwashed. People tend to get rapped up in information, in favor of or against one thing, that is used to promote a point of view to a mass audience through technology. Propaganda is used to stereotype, pinpoint the enemy, glitter generalities, and much more. Propaganda is normally used in politics to sway public views, shape perceptions, and direct behavior. In order for people to be educated on propaganda they must inform themselves on how it is used to manipulate people by becoming aware of its influences, strengths, and limitations.

“Today he uses sweet words and honeyed talk to those he entices; tomorrow he puts them to death for fabricated crimes.” (Heuston, Kimberley. Mao Zedong. Frontispace ). Mao Zedong is the person of the 20th Century because he changed the country of China for better and worse. Through his life, he is willing to stop anyone from getting in his way in his quest to rule and change China. He made Communism the ruling party in the country, forming the People's Republic of China. Chairman Mao’s “Great Leap Forward” policies and actions modernized the country in less than half a century. A major part of his life is dedicated to killing the people who stand in his way.

Mao Zedong is a figure who is possibly one of the most controversial yet important leaders in modern history. He is known for modernizing China from a struggling republic to a powerful world power with the influence of communism. Often seen as one of the most brutal dictators to have ever lived, Mao Zedong was also seen as a poet, a soldier, and a statesmen who brought China to new heights through industrial growth and spreading communist influence throughout Asia.

When people hear the name “Mao Zedong”, they immediately think of a stubby communist dictator responsible for the death of millions. Although many of his reforms failed and millions died, many argue that he his “good” outweigh his “bad”. He saved the ailing nation of China, molding it to the nation it is today.

Mao’s Cultural Revolution was an attempt to create a new culture for China. Through education reforms and readjustments, Mao hoped to create a new generation of Chinese people - a generation of mindless Communists. By eliminating intellectuals via the Down to the Countryside movement, Mao hoped to eliminate elements of traditional Chinese culture and create a new form Chinese culture. He knew that dumbing down the masses would give him more power so his regime would be more stable. This dramatic reform affected youth especially as they were targeted by Mao’s propaganda and influence. Drawing from his experiences as an Educated Youth who was sent down to the countryside Down to the Countryside movement, Ah Cheng wrote The King of

The rise of Communism in China is due to a man named Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong was born on December 26, 1893, in Shaoshan, Hunan Province, China. His rise to power began after The Boxer Rebellion. The Boxer Rebellion was an anti-imperialist uprising that took place of 1900. It left China’s citizens experiencing starvation, extreme poverty, and grief. It resulted in the loss of many lives. This set the stage for the acceptance of men like Zedong and the Communistic philosophies. After, many chinese citizens began joining revolutionary groups and political parties in hopes of changing their country. These times of chaos and desperation played a large role in acceptance of Mao. He had the support of roughly 85 percent of the nation who were poor

Mao Zedong was the ideological helmsmen who delivered a oppressed country from the administratively inept Qing dynasty and incessant waves of international invasion by enemies near and far. Although, emerging from a momentous socio-political transformation, China was yet again, pummeled by political maneuvers of the combative dichotomy consisting of Mao Zedong the CCP Party with continual campaigns. Nonetheless, Maoism, in regards to the Cultural Revolution, propelled the dogma that only “raising the political consciousness of the masses, revitalizing the socialist spirit and the ideals of the revolution, and refashioning a state structure guided by “proletarian ideology” could the danger of a regression to capitalism be forestalled,” for Mao...; It was these tenets which governed the hearts and minds of the Chinese people (Meisner, pg. 315). However, the ramifications of this monotheistic ideology, I contend, the heart of the issue, was this induced a permanent and perpetual competition within the populace in proving who was the “truest” in the cause of revolution. Therefore, “trueness” materialized from the tension of not only an individual's “bloodline,” but also the proving one’s “redness,” which I define as an unwavering political loyalty to the ideological figure of Mao and Maoist thought (ibid, pg. 315). Thus,

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

Over the course of Mao’s leadership from 1949 until his death in 1976 we can see the significance of his leadership and what made him a good and bad leader. Mao had made some very good decisions to help certain groups but also made some very bad decisions that paid the price, in some cases killing millions. Due to the social and economic changes that then followed by a significant increase in the population and weak leadership that led to rebellions from 1911 that saw the end of 3500years of rule by the Chinese imperial dynasties. The social and economic chaos then led to the formation of two political parties. The CCP, led by Mao Zedong and the GMD led by Chiang Kai Shek. Mao and his party defeated the GMD in 1949 bringing Mao into power. Mao’s main goal was to turn China into a pure communist country. Over the course of Mao’s leadership he did this by making significant social, economic and political changes to the Chinese way of life. However due to his poor leadership and the faults that he made it caused people to oppose him and get in the way of his goal. That is why in 1966 Mao decided to assert his beliefs through a series of decisions, which came to be known as the Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution was a hard time for many people throughout China as Mao enforced many things upon them to achieve his aim of removing capitalism. Mao used the youth of China to be that

Mao: The Unknown Story was a remarkable and dramatizing biography of Mao Zedong. Jung Chang and Jon Halliday depicted China’s chairman as pitiless leader that was behind the majority of the slaughters under his rule. The effects that Mao left on China were astonishing to learn about. Mao’s philosophy was the strangest thought that did not function properly as it should have. Cravings for absolute power made Chairman Mao to become a vicious tyrant.

As a result of the Chinese Civil War, the cultural identity of China was left in the hands of Mao Zedong. During the 19th century, China had veered away from it’s dynastic rule and became imperialized by countries such as England, Germany, France and Japan. They broke China up economic gain. As said in a text book written by Ethel Wood, “This era left many Chinese resentful of the ‘foreign devils’ who they eventually rebelled against” (AP CGP) In contrast, when Chairman Mao came to power, China changed completly. Mao Zedong’s belief was heavily motivated by Vladimir Lenin and Marxism. Rooted in the idea of community and the strength of the peasants, He believed that he could make China a powerful nation and steer his citizens away from Western