China: Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping Leaders of the 20th century asserted their influence into making what the world is today. ... China under Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping went under many changes to be what it is today. ... Xiaoping and Zedong took desperate measures to strengthen China's economy. ... During the 1950's Zedong asked U.S.S.R. for aid to industrialize China. ... Under Zedong, China was to unite and become stronghold of and for communism. ...

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Mao Zedong was born in a small village named Shaosan, (Music Mountain) in Dec. 1893. His family name Mao means, "hair" and his given name Zedong means "Anoint the East." ... Yet all in all this was a very informative and insightful look into the mind and practices of Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong was born in a small village named Shaosan, (Music Mountain) in Dec. 1893. His family name Mao means, "hair" and his given name Zedong means "Anoint the East." ...

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Mao Zedong was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China. The Chinese depression enabled Mao Zedong, along with the Communist Party to gain power, helping China to rebuild after WWII. ... This was the perfect chance for Mao Zedong to come to power and be that leader. ... Mao Zedong wasn't prepared for this, and China was rapidly falling (The Rise). ... The fact that Mao Zedong and the government could control everything without any question leads to the point that China is clearly not free either. ...

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The reasons for this was political victory is because Mao Zedong became the Chinese Communist Party Leader, all peasants after the long march favoured Communism and the news of Communism was spread throughout China. ... The Long March was a political victory because of Mao Zedong coming to power of the Communist Party and overall commander of the Red Army after the Zunyi Conference in January 1935. ... This may not seem to be a political victory but without Mao Zedong coming to power than the Long March would have never succeeded nor would have communism been spread throughout China. Because ...

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What legacy did Mao Zedong leave his successors? Mao Zedong is one of the most controversial leaders of the twentieth century. ... Most of Mao's major successes have been in the Cap's rise to power, while Mao's failure have come at the time when the CCP was in power. To focus on Mao's legacy one has to illuminate the questions why Mao despite all his big failures and his tyranny hold such a hero status? ... Mao altered Marxist-Leninism in two major ways. ...

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There are various ways in which single-party leaders of the past have managed to strengthen their power, but what is tantamount is the strengthening of their power domestically, which has proven to be the most vital item on the agendas of two of the twentieth century's most famous single-party leaders; Adolf Hitler and Mao Zedong. ... However, things got out of hand as Mao's CCP (Chinese Communist Party) realized that their power was being undermined. ... By having the arts and education conform to Mao's ideologies, it was hoped that it would make the masses more loyal to Mao, a...

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Schools were urged to teach students to fall in love Mao Zedong and his ideas, all while removing any curriculum that could be deemed "Capitalist"." ... Only concerned that they were doing an honorable service to Mao, the youth continued to convict. ... He even insisted that his children continue to believe in Mao and the Communist Party (57). ... A brainwashed China is made clear when Heng travels to Peking to see Chairman Mao. ... By brainwashing Chinese youth, adults, and society, Mao Zedong held power for ten years. ...

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Mao Tse-Tung Concepts/Ideas/Thoughts Mao Zedong Thought sums up the policies and ideas of the Communist Party of China (CPC), who led the mass revolution. ... Furthermore, Mao Zedong believed that the workers or laborers and the peasants are the only citizens who are capable of reforming the state of China. ... Mao Zedong wrote, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun" and emphasized that a revolution will push through if there is an army of people. ... Obsessed with revolution, Mao Tse-Tung sought help from his wife, Jiang Qing, also known as Madame Mao. Madame Mao became ...

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In order to fully comprehend how Mao came to be so powerful, the driving forces and motives which drove Mao need to be analysed. ... Maurice Meisner, now deceased historian and professor at the University of Wisconsin, states in his book 'Mao Zedong,' that what this Darwinist text conveyed to Mao was that "wealth and power" of the nation was the main value to which all other values must be subordinated, not excluding traditional cultural values, if need be. ... " – Mao Zedong's China; Kathlyn Gay, 2008. In 1919, Mao now age 26, travelled to Beijing and took...

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Abstract Throughout the extent of this essay an argument is developed that deems if the leadership of Mao Zedong was historically significant in the victory of the Chinese Communist Party. ... Mao Zedong is responsible for leading a victorious communist social revolution, each planned attack, each piece of propaganda, and each speech of motivation dispensed by Mao brought the change that was necessary for China to recover. ... Within this evaluation it will be clearly shown to what extents was Mao Zedong's leadership responsible for the victory of the Chinese Communist Party. ... This ...

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Chiang Kai-Shek was the leader of nationalist government and Mao Zedong was the leader of communist group. ... While Chiang was losing his support, Mao started gain supports from peasants, women and other people. In 1949, Mao took over China and the Nationalist escape to Taiwan and set up a government in Taipei. ... Mao gained power of communist party. ... Mao launched some policies when he was in power. ...

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Life in China In China life was pretty miserable for many years under the control of Mao Zedong. ... The results of Mao's rule were that of starvation and disaster. ... Mao Zedong had a great impact on China before his death however it was not a successful but a destructive impact. Deng Xiaoping also had an impact on China after the death of Mao Zedong, and I believe his efforts to help change China were effective. ... There were good things that came from the war in Asia, some of which were the economic development in some parts as in Japan, and in China after the death of Mao Zedong, ...

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Correspondingly, impact from their horrible family's 7experience during China's 1966-1967 Cultural Revolution8 and grievance towards Mao Zedong and the Chinese government, the Gao Brothers create works, notably The Execution of Christ, which 'ranges from the political and satirical to questions of material and spiritual spaces, and takes a humanitarian stance that questions the role government and the individual play within contemporary Chinese society since 1985.9' Thus, it can be seen that both of them are critical of the dark reign of the role governments and express th...

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The main attraction to this sphere of interest was the dramatic shift in popular Western opinion of Chairman Mao Zedong over the last few decades. ... In the case of Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, as there can be no definite argument on why Mao Zedong would encourage Chinese students to enact the decimation of his own revolutionary gains, the Cultural Revolution remains unbelievably enigmatic. ... OCR is written before Mao's death in 1976, and prior to the reversal of the depictions of major protagonists in the Chinese leadership. As a result, OCR is much more sympat...

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The Chinese communists under their leader Mao truly desired for the revival of their nation. ... These were the words of Mao Zedong, who believed that the people should act in the favor of the communist party as a whole, above personal advantages and interests. ... Mao emphasized that the people should understand the party's politics and help develop and carry out policies. ...

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The "communist" government that Mao Zedong brutally sculpted and administered has gone through an intensive transformation. ... The Chinese economy stagnated during the social-oriented rule of Mao in the 1950's. ... Mao was too theoretical concerning communism in the wake of the 1949 revolution. ... As Dwight Perkins says, Mao Zedong, during the last decade and a half of his life, dedicated his energies to creating a new "socialist man" who would work selflessly within a society devoid of class distinctions and motivated by the social good rather than personal material benefits. ... I...

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The "communist" government that Mao Zedong brutally sculpted and administered has gone through an intensive transformation. ... The Chinese economy stagnated during the social-oriented rule of Mao in the 1950's. ... Mao was too theoretical concerning communism in the wake of the 1949 revolution. ... As Dwight Perkins says, Mao Zedong, during the last decade and a half of his life, dedicated his energies to creating a new "socialist man" who would work selflessly within a society devoid of class distinctions and motivated by the social good rather than personal material benefits. ... I...

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Immediately after the initial armed conflict on Zhenbao Island, Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev enacted an aggressive diplomacy strategy formulated to reach a peaceful accord with Mao Zedong and the Chinese. ... China dismissed Moscow's aggressive posture and Mao was reluctant to respond to peace negotiations. ... Mao Zedong deemed this information as being credible and believed that an attack was imminent, so he agreed to peace negotiations with Moscow. Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev and his Chinese counterpart Mao Zedong both seemingly utilized Sun Tzu...

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Mao Zedong's leadership style was different compared to the likes of Sun Yatsun, Yuan Shikai and Chiang Kaishek. ... Mao Zedong believed in communism, he believed that China would be better off if its people were treated equally. ... Mao also wanted the people to have free will to protest with the revolution. ... The majority of the Chinese people followed Mao because they knew he was going to do what's best for them. ... Mao Zedong was one of the most influential leaders of China, even though he did kill directly or indirectly a large amount of the Chinese population. ...

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There is no determined reason why Mao Zedong, then Chairman of the Communist Party and the principal leader of China, unleashed millions of youths, soldiers and later adults, male and female against the historical, educational, artistic, musical, and cultural institutions and the people of China. ... A large impact of the Cultural Revolution was on the youth of China, especially the university students who were young and idealistic and did not want to follow Mao's orders. ... Mao wanted to send graduates into society, and declared that it was necessary for all intellectual students to go ...

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While he worked agreeably for 20 years with Chairman Mao Zedong in common cause for the great Chinese proletarian revolution in the 1960s, Liu certainly had potential to become Mao's successor. ... Mao Zedong was a proud, melodramatic man. ... Unlike Mao, Liu did not let personal factors interfere with his dedication to the revolution. ... Consequently, Liu Shaoqi's political plans and goals were far more realistic than those of Mao Zedong's. ... Mao felt that "his own ideals of substantive justice and "face-to-face" responsibility between leaders and led" were being violate...

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He touched on political figures such as Chairman Mao Zedong. He did repeated images of Mao and teased it by using multiple colours on Mao's uniform, and even painted Mao's face in such a way it looked as if he was wearing make-up.. ...

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Mao Zedong, the leader of the communist forces in china successfully adapted Sun Tzu's idea. ... The strategy tactics of the National Liberation Front (Viet Cong) were based very much upon the same tactics employed by Mao Zedong in China. ... According to Mao Zedong, the peasants were the sea in which the guerrillas needed to swim: " Without the constant and active support of the peasants failure is inevitable." ...

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