Hua Guofeng

The ten-year Cultural Revolution, in essence, was a political power struggle inside of the CCP, and as Mao died on September 9 1976, the Gang of Four was arrested soon on October 10. Since Mao’s successor Hua Guofeng was politically weak, Deng Xiaoping came back to power. Though the new leaders tried to help China recover from the revolution and rebuild the economic systems, the influences of the revolution did not vanish quickly. The Party had to deal with the mistakes that Mao made during the revolution

A great leap forwards or backwards? Mao Zedong envisioned transforming China from an Agrarian society to an industrial superpower through prompt modernization and assertive leadership. His dream was best exemplified by a speech given when rising to power: “We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view”. Mao’s ambitious vision was important to the resolvement of the dynastic

Two Years after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, it became apparent to many of China's leaders that Economic reform was necessary. By 1978 " Chinese leaders were searching for a solution to serious economic problems produced by Hua Guofeng, the man who had succeeded Mao Zedong as CCP leader after Mao's death" (Shirk 35). As Susan L. Shirk describes the situation in The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China, restoring the CCP's prestige required improving economic performance and raising living

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This government-led reform took place in two phases beginning with the one that started at the end of 1976 under the leadership of Hua Guofeng, Mao’s designated successor. Hua combined his power base by arresting the Gang of Four and stopping the Cultural Revolution. Despite being loyal to Chairman Mao, Hua was widely recognized as an economic modernizer. Hua initiated his economic modernization program, which was primarily a state-led, investment-driven program that focused on heavy industrialization

Throughout the course of China’s vast history, there is not a more controversial, internationally criticized and locally praised ruler than that of Chairman Mao Zedong. When Chairman Mao took control of the Chinese government as leader of the newly established Communist Party, he was most notably commended for helping unite China after years of civil war. After the previous regime left the country nearly bankrupt, Mao faced the challenge of rebuilding China’s economy, and he believed that it could

China is considered to be a democratic system however it has always heavily been ran by Communist parties. This used to be successful, China was considered to be the largest and most advanced economy all the way up to the 19th century. Their economy began to slow, then stagnate, and then eventually begin to decline after the beginning of the 19th century. They had a small up rise in the 1930’s however continued to decline thereafter. Chinese government attempted to run China through a planned economy

Deng Xiaoping      China has a long history with several great leaders, but none of those leaders have even come close to being as great as Deng Xiaoping. Deng Xiaoping was a loyal communist who sacrificed his own life so his people could have a better one. During his long political career, he served as a Communist politcommissar of the 129th Division (Liu-Deng Army) from 1929 to 1949. As politcommissar, he bravely and successfully fought the Nationalists. In 1945, he was

economy in the world today. Although China is currently under the leadership of Xi Jinping, this essay will concentrate primarily on the actions undertaken by then President Mao Zedong, followed by then President Deng Xiaoping, (sans mention of Hua Guofeng). Given the relative infancy of Xi’s assumption of power, economic policies still remain largely rhetorical in form. Likewise, the majority of literature concerning economic policies under Xi are largely speculative, often citing strategies and

Peter Hessler and a fellow Peace Corp. volunteer were placed in Fuling, and poor town on the Yangtze River in rural China. River Town is more or less a journal of what it was like being in Fuling on a day to day basis. He illustrates his experience through stories of trips he took, people that he became close with, and situations that required an open mind. Peter’s job was teaching English literature at a small college in the town; and through this was able to learn both about the tightly controlled