China in 1924China in 1924

Sun Yat-sen, head of the Nationalist Party

Mao Zedong As a Young Revolutionary

Two groups worked together to oppose the warlords and to drive out imperialist powers from China

Warlords

•Saw the Japanese as a threat, but thought that the Communists were much more dangerous

•Did not support the redistribution of wealth because he was supported by the rural landed gentry and the urban middle class

The Long March Communists, led by Mao Zedong, fought the larger Nationalist army by using guerilla tactics during the Long March

The Communist Victory

► 5 year plan to increase agriculture and industry

► Communes – combine collective farms together

The Great Leap Forward, 1958

►Increased literacy – women were given more rights

► Class privileges ended – racial equality

► Reduce Confucian values

►Good of community over individual rights

Communist China Under Mao

► Old Thoughts

► Old Culture

► Old Customs

► Old Habits

To Rebel Is Good!To Rebel Is Good!

Campaign against the “Four Olds”

►Led by the Urban working class

►Mao’s plans for this – Little Red Book

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

With regard to the great teacher Chairman Mao, cherish the word

'Loyalty'. With regard to the great Mao Zedong Thought, vigorously stress the

word 'Usefullness'. (1968)

With regard to the great teacher Chairman Mao, cherish the word

'Loyalty'. With regard to the great Mao Zedong Thought, vigorously stress the

word 'Usefullness'. (1968)

Cult of Personality

Propaganda PosterPropaganda Poster

Go among the workers, peasants and soldiers, and into the thick of

struggle!1967-1972

Go among the workers, peasants and soldiers, and into the thick of

struggle!1967-1972

Propaganda PosterPropaganda Poster

Power StrugglePower Struggle

Modernists

Communist Traditionalis

ts

Zhou Enlai

“The Gang of Four”: Jiang Qin, Chen Boda, Wang Hongwen, Yao

Wenyuan

1976

Deng Xiaoping

““The 4 The 4 Modernizations”Modernizations”

Progress in:Progress in:•Agriculture

•Industry

•Technology

•National Defense

““The 4 The 4 Modernizations”Modernizations”

Progress in:Progress in:Allowed land to be leased to peasants

Invited foreign investors into China

Allowed sales of excess products (after rent was paid) & could produce goods for sale

DID NOT BRING THE FIFTH MODERNIZATION = DEMOCRACY

People who openly complained about the Communist Party were often jailed for long periods of time.

More democracy!

Tiananmen Square, 1989

Protestors called for an end to the corruption in the government

Tiananmen Square