ABSOLUTE POWER - MAO ZEDONG
A person who has absolute power is known as an autocratic. An autocratic is someone that has absolute power and control. This is when no one can speak against the dictator without being killed, having their head chopped off or being jailed. A good example of absolute power is Mao Zedong.
Mao Zedong was a Chinese man who was the son of a peasant farmer. He was born in south of China on the 26th of December 1893 and died on the 9th of September 1976. In his early years Mao was a writer, he often wrote poems and books.
Before Mao came into power, Qing dynasty ruled China for a long time, this is when China now longed for new China, and Mao had led the way. Mao gained power in 1949 when China had become a communist nation. As Mao was now the new ruler of China he controlled all aspects of Chinese life. Many Chinese people would study his writings, and would put up posters of Mao up on building walls throughout the country.
In January 1958 Mao launched a Five-Year Plan also known as the Great Leap Forward. This plan was intended to be an alternative model for economic growth focusing on heavy industry. Many peasants were ordered to work on massive projects and small-scale production of steel and iron. Private food was banned; livestock and farming supplies were also brought under collective ownership. The Great Leap Forward led to millions of deaths of Chinese peasants.
On the 16th of May1966 Mao Zedong launched a Cultural Revolution. The Cultural Revolution was an idea to mobilize China’s youth. This caused chaos throughout the whole of China. Mao closed down all schools in China and the children, mostly teenagers were ordered to work in the country side, they were forced to manufacture weapons for the Red Army. The Cultural Revolution led to destruction to most of China’s Cultural heritage and imprisoned a huge number of Chinese citizens. Millions of lives were ruined during this stage, as the Cultural Revolution broke into every part of Chinese life. Finally in 1969 Mao declared the Cultural Revolution to be over.
Following the Chinese Revolution of 1949, China’s economy was in ruin. The new leader, Mao Zedong, was responsible for pulling the economy out of the economic depression. The problems he faced included the low gross domestic product, high inflation, high unemployment, and high prices on goods. In order to solve these issues, Mao sought to follow a more Marxist model, similar to that of the Soviet Union. This was to use government intervention to develop industry in China. In Jan Wong’s Red China Blues, discusses Maoism and how Mao’s policies changed China’s economy for the worse. While some of Mao’s early domestic policies had some positive effects on China’s economy, many of his later policies caused China’s economy to regress.
During the Cultural Revolution Mao Zedong , people also knew him as Mao Zedong Tse tung was the Chinese ruler. He ruled the country during this time known as Chairman of the Communist Party of China. Moa was very well educated in Western and Chinese traditions. During the year 1918 Mao Zedong had a job as a librarian assistant at Peking University. He would call himself a Marxist in the of 1920 and he helped found the current Chinese Communist party Communist formed an alliance during 1923 with a man called Sun Ya sen and his Nationalist party. After that Mao Zedong quit the current job he had as a teacher to become a poli...
Mohandas Gandhi and Mao Zedong were two great leaders who succeeded in many ways by their actions and decisions. Gandhi was an Indian leader and Mao a Chinese leader. However, their approach to success, peace, and ultimately, a revolution, was very different. Mao favored peace through violence, and Gandhi favored peace through non-cooperation and standing up for what is right. He also believed that these changes will be accomplished by “conscious suffering”, was the way he put it. However, despite their differences, these two leaders were similar too. They were both very charismatic leaders who successfully made it through their revolutions. Mao’s revolution led to change in class structure while Gandhi’s revolution involved India as a country, and he wanted people to realize that working together is a great way to gain independence. While Mao and Gandhi both believed that each of their countries have the need of independence, their views differed when it came to the use of violence, development towards the revolution, and their thoughts on a caste system.
Mao Zedong was a very influential man in history. He forever changed the face of Chinese politics and life as a whole. His communist views and efforts to modernize China still resonate in the country today. Jonathan Spence’s book titled Mao Zedong is a biography of the great Chinese leader. Spence aims to show how Mao evolved from a poor child in a small rural village, to the leader of a communist nation. The biography is an amazing story of a person’s self determination and the predictability of human nature. The book depicts how a persuasive voice can shape the minds of millions and of people. It also shows the power and strength that a movement in history can make. This biography tells an important part of world history-the communist takeover of China.
Ji-Li Jiang was not the only citizen deceived by the Communist Party and Chairman Mao. Once most Nationalists, dissidents of Communism, immigrated to Taiwan in 1949, the only people remaining in China were Communist; thus, the common people supported Chairman Mao. He took advantage of the people’s trust and manipulated the entire country. In the hope of spreading enthusiasm about Communism, Chairman Mao used propaganda wisely. New and modern technologies were conducive to the development of Chairman Mao’s personality cult, a group of supporters that follow him for his personality rather than his ideas. Through secular religion, the abolishing of all faiths, Chairman Mao replaced God, Allah, or any other deities with himself. Seeing that religion was the central force in everyone’s life, Chairman Mao was worshiped throughout the nation. The Chinese citizens’ devotion towards Chairman Mao was so great that despite being prosecuted and humiliated themselves, "[they] believed that the Cultural Revolution was necessary to prevent revisionism and capitalism from taking over China… [For instance, when questioned whether or not she hated Chairman Mao, An Yi’s mother replied] ‘if the country was better for the movement
He was born into a peasant family that only owned three acres of land, which has been handed for several generations now. During that time, life in China was difficult for many Chinese citizens but Mao’s family was doing better than others. His father was a grain dealer and his mother was just like any mother that wanted her son to have a religious career. Unlike Gandhi, Mao didn’t have the luxury of going overseas to a university. Although Mao wasn’t able to travel out of his home province until he was twenty-five, in the year of 1918 in Peking, China; his view of the country started to change. With limited knowledge and as a librarian worker of Peking University, he was already convinced of communism. Later, he became a primary school teacher in Hunan where he edited magazines arranged trade unions, and assembled schools of his own that were politically positioned. Initially, he tried other ways to further improve China by grasping the peasant’s attention, using force, strategic plans, and most importantly
This was a program which called for major steel production. Mao Zedong wanted to make China a “first-class modern power”(221). Mao wanted the steel production of the country to double in only one year, as he called on the whole population to help. All other work and schooling stopped. There was a new quota for each unit to produce.
After Mao Zedong’s failed Cultural Revolution, the country was in a state of disarray. Political isolation had caused the economy to falter, while citizens struggled everyday to adhere to communist ideals. Collectivization and municipalization ran the nation, meaning the government had total control over the country which left citizens without a chance of earning their own money or providing for themselves. In turn, the quality of life in China decreased and riots began to break out. Deng Xiaoping was the leader that succeeded Mao after his death in 1976, and his reforms helped turn around the country’s economic and social situation. Careful strategic moves made by Deng allowed other countries to invest in China’s economy and the government gave people more control over their land and education. He also reduced the power of the government, moving away from Communism and towards democracy. Deng Xiaoping had a positive influence on China because he opened China up to the global markets and increased the quality of life for millions of people.
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The Cultural Revolution was a movement started in 1966 by Chairman Mao (Mao Zedong). “It’s stated goal was to preserve true communist ideology in the country by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from
The Chinese Revolution of 1949 was caused by many events. It all started in 1945 when the Japanese were defeated and the KMT, Kuomintang, and the CCP, Chinese Communist Party, alliance breaks and KMT wants war with the CCP. The same year they go into a war the KMT is defeated so the CCP takes control of China. Mao Zedong did not agree with the CCP having control of china, so he decided that China would now be the PRC, the People’s Republic of China. This was a new government to try to modernize the country. Before, when they were under the rule of Manchu they were restricted to modernizing their country. The communist government was very controlling and based their economy off of agriculture and crafts. Factory conditions were terrible and child labor was very common, and workers were underpaid. America helped to fix some corruption made from the KMT.
First Mao Zedong went through many events and travelled a long journey to establish The Peoples Republic of China. When Chiang Kai-shek, became the chairman of the Kuomintang he started a violent purge of the communists in China. At first Mao tried to fight back with an army of peasant but was handily defeated which forced the remnants of the army to retreat to the Jiangxi Province. ...
Mao: Well first of all Stalin created the cult of personality, everyone loved him and admired him because in all the images he was depicted on he seemed powerful. When Stalin turned Russia into a superpower after winning World War II everyone admired him even more. When the second Sino-Japanese war happened It was me who created a massive guerilla warfare and defeated the Japanese. Because of my formidable and effective fighting force I was the savior of China and everyone loved me. Superman was loved by everyone in the Soviet Union because he kept everyone save while still implemented Communist ideals. We were all saviors and if you did not agree with our ideals we would send you to rectification camps. For example, when superman defeated super villains he put them in a rehabilitation program that
...hinese Seamstress gives an accurate depiction of things that occurred during the Chinese Culture Revolution. It shows that youth were re-educated in villages by poor peasants and that material of western influences that opposed Mao and his ideas were considered bad and were banned. It shows that in order to re-educate them they were to do manual labor and live in communes. They were removed from their families and the things they took for granted. Their lives were no longer under their control, they were told were to go live, where to work and what they can and cannot do. The Chinese Culture Revolution had a profound impact on the people in China from every aspect of life, men, women and children and from every age were affected.
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