In China after Chairman Mao, China had a period of post Maoism and was moving away from Chairman Mao to a more modernized China. Even though Mao Zedong had a hand in creating China and unifying, China in it is early years up to the Chinese Cultural revolution. His downturn or his bad Mao days were after the Cultural Revolution. In which many people in china suffered because of the Cultural Revolution and many parts of traditional Chinese culture was either erased or wiped out from History. Many people
Mao Zedong is considered to be one of the most controversial political leaders of the twentieth century. He has been known both as a savior and a tyrant to the Chinese people. From his strategic success of the Long March, to his humiliating failure of the Great Leap Forward, to the Cultural Revolution that shocked the country and took countless lives, Mao has significantly influenced the result of what China is today. From humble origins, Mao Zedong rose to absolute power, unifying with an iron fist
is Mao’s love for China’s independence coupled with agrarian reforms that put Mao on the road to power. After 1949, Nationalism would reappear in Mao’s cultural policies, his relationship with Moscow and underdeveloped countries. Mao feared nothing and no one. Using Marxism-Leninism as a framework, Mao proposed the use of peasants to create his revolutionary elite. His
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
In order to fully understand the effects of Mao in power, we must first understand those in power before him. Before Mao and his Chinese revolution to the end of the Chinese civil war in 1949, China’s leading party was the Chinese Nationalist Party (also known as KMT). In 1912, Yuan Shikai became president of the KMT and soon began to ignore the parliament and make his own decisions. This, inadvertently, started the degradation of the KMT and the result was widespread corruption. This resulted in
Was Mao an Effective Leader? When one thinks of China during the early 1950’s, 60’s, and 70’s, they typically picture communists, propaganda, the long march, the great leap forward, and the cultural revolution. There is one key link between all of these things: Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong was a very ineffective, damaging, and terrible leader, he lead his country into poverty, death, and destruction between the years of 1949 to 1976. Between the deadly outcomes of the great leap forward and the unwanted
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.
Of Mao Zedong============= Early Life Of Mao Zedong Mao Zedong was born on December 26 1893, into one of the wealthiest farmers in ShaoShan(韶山). His father was an authoritative parent who often used brute force to instill discipline into his children. Mao Zedong was exposed to many different political theories in his early life such as representative democracy, republicanism, Marxism, socialism, classical liberalism. When Mao started Primary School, the text were based on Confucianism, Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong as a Chinese Nationalist Anthony Trang HST/REL 111 Professor Rush 12/01/2017 Mao Zedong was a man who went down in history as a terrible person who ruled with an iron fist. He was, however, a man who worked hard for his country. As defined by Merriam Webster dictionary, “loyalty and devotion to a nation; especially : a sense of national consciousness exalting one nation above all others and placing primary emphasis on promotion of its culture and interests as opposed to those
Mao Zedong (26 December 1893) - (9 September 1976) was a Chinese communist leader and founder of the People's Republic of China. In his years of power, he was responsible for a lot of good and a lot of bad, in this essay I will be discussing my hypothesis: Did Mao Zedong’s Merits Outweigh is mistakes. With two paragraphs’ in favor of Mao with the points: Mao Turned China from a largely uncivilized, stone-age society to a modernized, industrial world power, and Mao United China as they were on the