china aos 2 quotes

Article 48 of the PRC constitution?

‘Women in the People’s Republic of China enjoy equal right with men in all spheres of life, in political, economic, cultural, social and family life'

How did Mao define the new constitution?

‘Our constitution is of a new socialist type, different from any of the bourgeois type'

How did Mao describe democracy?

‘democracy for the people and dictatorship over the reactionaries, this is the people’s democratic dictatorship.’

Johnathan spence on the success of the first five year plan?

'A formidable achievement'

Liu Shaoqi on the soviet way of governing?

‘The Soviet road is the road all humanity will eventually take. To bypass this road is impossible.’

Mao on the road from the revolution?

“The Chinese revolution is great, but the road after the revolution will be longer, the work greater and more arduous.”

Mao on women?

'Women hold up the sky'

Philip Short on the significance of Fanshen for the revolution?

‘Peasants who killed with their bare hands the landlords who oppressed them were wedded to the new revolutionary order in a way that passive spectators could never be.’

Rowan Callick on the PLA as an army?

‘[the PLA] is not the army of the government, or of China more generally, but of the CCP.’ 

What was Chinese propaganda during the Korean War?

‘Resist America, Aid Korea'

Zhou Enlai on his tolerance for foreign imperialism?

“The Chinese people absolutely will not tolerate foreign aggression, nor will they…tolerate seeing their neighbours invaded by imperialists”. 

What did Liu Shaoqi think needed to happen before collectivisation?

'No collectivisation without mechanisation'

What is the General Line?

'More, faster, better and more economically'

What key point of Stalin's  regime did Khruschev condemn in his 'secret speech'?

'cult of personality'

Mao's expression in the Hundred Flowers Campaign?

'Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend’

Mao on contradictions in the Hundred Flowers Campaign?

‘They are just contradictions, that’s all. The world is full of contradictions’

Mao on distinguishing antagonistic and non-antagonistic cricitisms (Hundred Flowers Campaign)?

‘distinguishing between fragrant flowers and poisonous weeds’

Philip Short on the Hundred Flowers Campaign?

‘The Hundred Flowers was the most ambitious attempt ever undertaken in any communist country to combine a totalitarian system with democratic checks and balance’

Slogan of the High Tide?

‘Go all out, aim high, and achieve greater, faster, better, and more economical results in the building of socialism’

What did Mao think about the People's Communes?

‘The people’s commune is great!'

Historian Jasper Becker on the manipulation of statistics?

‘With each repetition the lies became more and more fantastic'

Dr Li Zhisui on Mao?

'As the emperor, he believed in his own infallibility...the emperor could not be wrong, but he could be deceived.’

Historian John King Fairbank on the Three Bad Years Famine?

‘an all-time-first class man made famine...Mao-made catastrophe’

Mao's belief about his people dying in the famine?

‘Working like this ... half of China may well have to die’

What was peng Dehuai's promise to the people suffering?

‘I shall agitate and speak out on behalf of the People.’

Wang Bingnan in the Lushan Plenum?

‘After Lushan the whole Party shut up’

Mao on the atomic bomb?

‘The atom bomb is nothing to be afraid of. China has many people. They cannot be bombed out of existence. If someone else can drop an atomic bomb, I can too'

Khrushchev on the People's Communes?

‘It’s impossible to leap into communism’

What did Liu Shaoqi say about the GLF at the 7000 Cadres conference?

‘There is not only no Great Leap Forward, but a great deal of falling backward’

Mao on class struggle at the Tenth Plenum?

‘Never forget class struggle. From now on we must think about this every year, every month, every day’

What happened following the purging of 5 million provincial cadres after the Revised Later 10 Points (Sept. 1964)?

‘All hell broke loose’

Lin Biao on Mao and the Little Red Book?

‘Study Chairman Mao’s writings, follow his teachings and act according to his instructions and be his good fighters’

Cook on the Little Red Book?

‘A weapon of mass instruction’

Mao on similarities in Hai Rui?

‘Peng Dehuai is indeed Hai Rui’

The Sixteen Points on cultural rev victory?

‘The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is bound to achieve brilliant victory under the leadership of ... Comrade Mao Zedong’

The Sixteen Points on big character posters?

‘Make the fullest use of big-character posters’

The Sixteen Points on their main objective (capitalist road)?

‘At present, our objective is to struggle against and overthrow those persons in authority who are taking the capitalist road’

Fenby on Mao’s intentions behind the cultural rev?

‘Mao was seeking immortality by identifying himself with symbols that would live on after him’

May 16 Circular?

‘hold high the great banner of proletarian Cultural Revolution, thoroughly expose the reactionary bourgeois stand’

Red Guard Dazibao? 1966

‘Not to rebel is revisionism, pure and simple’

Maoism quote (cult of Mao)?

‘Father is close, Mother is close, but neither is as close as Chairman Mao’

Red Guard 1966?

‘die fighting for Chairman Mao’

9th Party Congress? (April 1969)

‘to expel Liu Shaoqi from the Party, once and for all’

DENG PUFENG (DENG XIAOPING’S SON)

‘The Cultural Revolution was not just a disaster for the Party, for the country, but for the whole people. We were all victims’

Rebecca Karl on the cultural rev?

‘The Chinese Cultural Revolution was an inspiration for many ... common people to seize politics from the dead hands of faraway bureaucrats’