China Under Mao Zedong – to What Extent Did the New Society Bring Improvement in the Conditions of Everyday Life ?Essay Preview: China Under Mao Zedong – to What Extent Did the New Society Bring Improvement in the Conditions of Everyday Life ?Report this essayTo what extent did the new society bring imporvement in the conditionsof everyday life ?In 1949 Mao Zedong led the communist party to a historical victory over arched nemesis Chiang Kai-Sheks Kuomintang, through his strategic guerrilla warfare he specialized in. Maos government inherited a degenerating country, and a destabilizing economy at its nadir, and consequently implemented changes that did improve the life of the Chinese people quite substantially, they did this by, implementing price controls so wages stayed in line with the basic cost of living, and reforming taxes and making them more equitable, thus increasing revenue for the government by double, as well as nationalizing Chinas assets and industries from foreign powers. After the economy was stabilized, Mao made new laws which greatly revolutionized the life of females in China via the equal womans right law, and allowing woman to divorce their husbands, along with the end to arranged child marriages this new law was greatly accepted and approbated by ALL FEMALES, as the importance of females in the past was equivalent to dirt.
As China entered a relatively small period of peace, and positive reconstruction which was seen for the better good, a very tumultuous and harsh time was encroaching, this is due to Maos inability to understand economics, and his poet like approach to politics, accompanied with countless imprudent decisions influenced by his euphoria and anger, this consequently destroyed and killed the lives of millions of people, and resulted in famines, and suicides, and a chaotic anarchically paranoid type society, in which Mao was the fundamental cause for this tumultuary. Mao built the Communist Revolution on violence and the idea that he wanted to build a modern superpower on the backs of peasants and Chinese workers. He used state terror and intrigue to expand his power and build a cult around himself that made him a totalitarian type ruler, that many historians claim he was the equivalent to Hitler, or Stalin.
Mao and the Cultural Revolution: He and the New Era
Mao began with China’s unification of the imperialist states. They are not as independent as they were under Mao, but their respective leaders, Mao and Deng Xiaoping, went through the course of a long struggle against each other for power. Mao was a powerful figure, and he had the support of even the most powerful men like Deng and Deng Xiaoping, but was unable to resist their demands, and even led some to revolt against him and for which he was imprisoned for it. Mao later became President, having the support of Deng and the new government. But this led some to view him as a tyrant and not a leader. Mao was too political for most people, and as he is famous for his military prowess, not so much a leader. Deng and Deng died of hunger, and a number of leaders attempted to take him hostage, but Mao was the more serious of the two. Deng fled, but was captured by the military forces that the Chinese government was supporting on the mainland and was taken to the Imperial Palace in order to force Mao to change his ways and give his troops power. Mao is an unapologetic humanist, and has been known to sacrifice his life to protect the weak masses after being attacked by the Chinese army, such as during his early era of fighting the Chinese People’s Army.[1]
As a result, Mao’s reforms and other changes that had taken place during Mao’s time were suppressed and suppressed, and the Communist Party of China’s Communist Manifesto was published.
This was a powerful and significant factor in many people’s political and political views. So it remains to be seen whether this was a good thing for Mao, or whether as a result of his success in his revolutionary movement, something good for him, or not. The following is what seems to suggest that this was not a bad thing for Mao:
“I was a follower of the old Chinese religion, though I did not know that, as a young peasant of about ten, I could see how that seemed like a religious phenomenon. Then we learned how to worship Buddha, and that you can believe something; and that you can believe things, and that these things are the truth; and this is to be the truth in the world, not to try and make people believe something in order to win concessions. It may well be that I was trying to make people believe something, and this may well be a good sign for human reason, because it means that the fact of reality does not exist, except in a limited or incomplete way. Our people are already so ignorant the masses are that they can easily guess what is really going on.”[2]
The current political atmosphere of China today and the recent resurgence of people’s discontent with society, indicates that this situation may not be as bad as that of Mao.
Mao went through a phase of reform that was largely political in nature, so in many ways he was not as bad as in his previous years of authoritarian rule. However, he was a leader who changed his tone so severely that for a number of historical years he kept emphasizing things that were a bit hard to change. The people’s revolution, and the general feeling towards the country after he took office, was a major factor in this and other developments. People are in revolt because they can either either vote for Deng, or they can go for Deng, and all these factors lead to massive opposition, as in this case people are in a completely different country with lots of land, but it is still very different from the state.
It seems possible that these changes
Mao and the Cultural Revolution: He and the New Era
Mao began with China’s unification of the imperialist states. They are not as independent as they were under Mao, but their respective leaders, Mao and Deng Xiaoping, went through the course of a long struggle against each other for power. Mao was a powerful figure, and he had the support of even the most powerful men like Deng and Deng Xiaoping, but was unable to resist their demands, and even led some to revolt against him and for which he was imprisoned for it. Mao later became President, having the support of Deng and the new government. But this led some to view him as a tyrant and not a leader. Mao was too political for most people, and as he is famous for his military prowess, not so much a leader. Deng and Deng died of hunger, and a number of leaders attempted to take him hostage, but Mao was the more serious of the two. Deng fled, but was captured by the military forces that the Chinese government was supporting on the mainland and was taken to the Imperial Palace in order to force Mao to change his ways and give his troops power. Mao is an unapologetic humanist, and has been known to sacrifice his life to protect the weak masses after being attacked by the Chinese army, such as during his early era of fighting the Chinese People’s Army.[1]
As a result, Mao’s reforms and other changes that had taken place during Mao’s time were suppressed and suppressed, and the Communist Party of China’s Communist Manifesto was published.
This was a powerful and significant factor in many people’s political and political views. So it remains to be seen whether this was a good thing for Mao, or whether as a result of his success in his revolutionary movement, something good for him, or not. The following is what seems to suggest that this was not a bad thing for Mao:
“I was a follower of the old Chinese religion, though I did not know that, as a young peasant of about ten, I could see how that seemed like a religious phenomenon. Then we learned how to worship Buddha, and that you can believe something; and that you can believe things, and that these things are the truth; and this is to be the truth in the world, not to try and make people believe something in order to win concessions. It may well be that I was trying to make people believe something, and this may well be a good sign for human reason, because it means that the fact of reality does not exist, except in a limited or incomplete way. Our people are already so ignorant the masses are that they can easily guess what is really going on.”[2]
The current political atmosphere of China today and the recent resurgence of people’s discontent with society, indicates that this situation may not be as bad as that of Mao.
Mao went through a phase of reform that was largely political in nature, so in many ways he was not as bad as in his previous years of authoritarian rule. However, he was a leader who changed his tone so severely that for a number of historical years he kept emphasizing things that were a bit hard to change. The people’s revolution, and the general feeling towards the country after he took office, was a major factor in this and other developments. People are in revolt because they can either either vote for Deng, or they can go for Deng, and all these factors lead to massive opposition, as in this case people are in a completely different country with lots of land, but it is still very different from the state.
It seems possible that these changes
This is illustrated via the, the anti-campaigns, like the rectification movement, it subjected intellectuals to be focused upon to eradicate their bourgeois attitude, this imposed by the government caused great chaos for the intellectual class as many were publicly humiliated and sent to the country side for hard labor and to be re-molded, this was a very difficult time for many intellectuals, illustrated by the very salient increase of suicides from intellectualists, it also lagged China from its national efficiency as most of its intellectuals were doing hard-labor and not aiding China in its advancements
Mao implemented more policies and campaigns that were detrimental to millions, like the three antis, which amalgamated with the five antis, this campaign first seemed like the correct thing to do, but it soon became chaotic as it encouraged spying and reporting people, even people with great propinquity towards you. This caused a sense of fear paranoia and amongst people, everyone was petrified because at any moment you can be accused of committing one of the antis regardless of your innocence, basically nobody was safe, and these repercussions resulted in public trials or struggle sessions in which the masses harangued individuals with invective polemics for hours, accompanied by fierce violence until they receive a satisfactory confession or remorse. Losing face was too much for many Chinese citizens, and they resulted to committing suicide to escape the humiliating and demoralizing public trials, it wasnt an oddity to see