Mao Zedong Mao Zedong rose from peasantry to become one of China's most historically significant political leader. While working in the Peking University library under Li Dazhao, Mao became a member of the CCP. ... Mao believed that China's Marxist revolution would be victorious for the peasant class. ... During the years 1958 to 1961, Mao's leadership drastically faltered. ... This event proceeded the Hundred Flowers movement initiated by Mao. ...

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In the post-Mao years, China quickly became a reformist socialist society that waivered between ideology and pragmatism. ... Of course one's view was deeply prejudiced by one's position vis-à-vis the Cold War, one's feelings about Chairman Mao 毛主席 and the Little Red Book 毛主席語錄, one's reaction to the Tiananmen Square Incident 六四運動, and one's feelings about China as banker to the World. ... While there is a certain charm to the Chinese Communist Party's current judgment of Chairman Mao as "70% good and 30% bad; it underscores the enormo...

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They were allowed to return to Beijing in 1976, at the end of the Cultural Revolution after Mao Zedong died.(2) During his time of exile he was sentenced to clean communal toilets for his village of about 200 people. ... He turned to architecture and four years later founded the design firm FAKE to realize his projects which emphasized simplicity through the use of commonplace materials.(2) Weiwei is also known for his famous photo series titled "Study of Perspective" in which he flips off the White House, Tiananmen Square and Mao's portrait capturing his push for free express...

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The two factions held civil war for more than 20 years before the CCP won control of China under Mao Zedong. During the Rule of Mao the government enforced many policies favoring socialist and communist policies, such as: Cultural Revolution and the Five-Year Plan, in which the government tried to equalize the social classes and unite the country as one under the banner of equality and contempt against the west. During the latter half of the 20th century Deng Xiaoping emerged as the new leader of China, and instituted many policies contrasting his predecessor Mao Zedong. ...

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How has the issue of gender superiority evolved in China? The existence of women throughout China's history was that of total inferiority. As the Chinese society developed women became subordinate to men. Even when death comes, this lesser position was brought out in the discoveries of ancient graves. They showed the wife's corpse in a bowing position towards her husband. ...

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The People's Republic of China has been a communist state since 1949, when Mao Zedong declared, after a bloody civil war, that all of China was to be combined under one banner, and that banner was Communism. ...

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In 1979, the Chinese government selected to make Chinese communism more open and capitalistic. Under the new leadership of Deng Xiaoping, China revolutionized its policy on fertility and wealth. The government wanted to do more than just equitably divide up wealth; instead, it started focusing on ...

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