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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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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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). Hua had demonstrated a desire to continue the ideologically based movements of Mao. ... Mao's successor, Hua Guofeng, had "tried to prove himself a worthy successor to Mao by draping himself in the mantle of Maoist tradition. ... This policy--deno...

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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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Mao Zedong encourages this by stating in his work On Practice that you can "discover truth through practice and through practice verify and develop truth." ... Zedong argues that truth is both developed and verified through practice. ... An opposing view to Zedong's beliefs is presented by Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki in The Meaning of Satori. ...

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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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Chinese Economic Reform 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). Hua had demonstrated a desire to continue the ideologically based movements of Mao. ... Mao's successor, Hua Guofeng, had "tried...

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His name was Mao. ... (Silbrgeld, 300) Mao Zedong Also saw the importance of art to revolution. According to Writer Jerome Silbergeld, Chairmen Mao once said that "revolutionary literature and art are part of the whole revolutionary cause, they are the cogs and wheels in it." (Silbergeld, 300) It is apparent than, that Mao Zedong knew the importance of art to not only aid his revolution, but the revolution of any other against him. ...

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Mao Zedong was able to able to more commoners to his cause, exploit their support, and take advantage of KMT corruption, taxation, and repression. ... But in the 1930s and 1940s, according to Huang, Mao was winning the hearts and minds campaign. ... Along the same lines, Lowell Dittmer's "The Legacy of Mao Zedong- (1980) suggests that militarily, the Red Army grew stronger, while the Nationalist Army was always dogged by incompetence and ineffectiveness. ... For starters, Mao and his followers were tenacious and patient. ... But by the time Mao was needed to provide decisive leaders...

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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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Due to the civil war, after the Japanese invasion and occupation, between Mao Zedong and his communist forces and the nationalist forces of Chiang Kaishek in 1945 - 49, the physical activities carried out where of a military style, they would do marching exercises, and use guns etc. to train. ...

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Stalin Essay Stalin's Childhood The man who the world would come to know as Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, on December 21, 1879, in the Georgian village of Gori, a small town in the southern reaches of the Russian Empire. He was the third child born to Vissarion Dzhugashvili, a poor shoemaker and his wife Yekaterina, who worked as a house cleaner. The young Iosif was the only one of their children to survive childhood. Stalin's father Vissarion was an abusive hard drinking man who eventually failed as an independent artisan and left his fam...

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Introduction Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili in the village of Gori, in the Russian province of Georgia, on Dec. 21, 1879. His father was a shoemaker with a penchant for drunkenness, who left Gori when Stalin was young to seek employment in the city of Tiflis. Thus Joseph's mother, Yekaterina, made the more profound impact on his life--it was she who directed his education, first in the local Gori Church School and then, thanks to a scholarship, at the Tiflis Theological Seminary. There, she hoped, he would train to become a priest. Instead, the young Stalin bec...

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Taiwan-China Reunification 1. Introduction 1.1 Background In 1949, Chiang Kai-shek's defeated Kuomintang and fled to Taiwan with Mao Zedong's Red Army in hot pursuit. Taiwan was regarded by the United States of America as being of no strategic significance and seemed destined to be taken over...

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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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