China 1 - Esrablishment of communist rule 1949-65

PRC proclaimed

CPPCC established

1 Oct 1949

Korean War

Reunification campaigns

1950

3 Antis Campaign

1951

5 Antis Campaign

1952

End of Korean War

Reform of PLA

1953

New constitution

1954

Secret speech

25 Feb 1956

Hundred Flowers

1956

Repeated call for 100 flowers

Feb 1957

Anti-Rightists

June 1957

Mao stood as Head of State

1958

Liu Shaoqi becomes state president

1959

Mao Retreats from public life

1962

Issues faced in 1949 (6)

Nationalist threat, administrative & economic chaos, lawlessness, lack of infrastructure, transport & expertise lacking

CPPCC stands

Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference

PLA details (3)

People’s Liberation Army

Mao = headed Military Affairs Commission

Role in reunification campaigns, Korean war, regional bureaux, suppression of opponents

Conscription law

1955

How many opponents killed 1950-53

100,000

CCP details (5)

Mao = chairman of CCP

Standing committee - 5

Politburo - 25

Central committee - 49

National People’s congress

State details (3)

Mao = Head of state till 1958

Zhou = Premier

24 ministries - 8 million by 1959

Suppressing counter-revolutionaries (3)

March 1950

Targeted nationalists, academics, western business men and Christian missionaries

Self-registration trick

Three Antis (5)

1951

corruption, waste, inefficient bureaucracy

targeted old civil servants

Five Antis (8)

1952

Bribery, tax evasion, theft of state property, cheating on govt. contracts & stealing state economic information

Targeted middle classes and businessmen

Many suicide

Reunification campaigns

Most distant parts of china

Tibet reunification campaign (4)

Dalai Lama fled 1959,

Puppet govt set up in Lhasa,

Tibetan language and culture attacked,

Han migration (1952)

Taiwan reunification campaign

Nationalists fled and set ROC

Xinjiang reunification campaign (4)

Large muslim population

Uighurs targeted

Leaders killed in plane crash in 1949 on way to CPPCC

PLA crushed resistance

Guangdong

Southern Province - pro-nationalist

28,000 executed

Loagai (3)

Prison/labour camps

1955=1.3 million inmates

poor conditions with slave labour

Hunded Flowers Campaign : Causes (4)

desire for intellectual support with economic policies

Trap

remove bureaucrats

distance from stalin

Anti-rightist campaign response

June 1957

5% of danweis to be purged

Korean war (7)

Increased CCP support' ‘resist america, aid korea’

Patriotism - not defeated by UN troops, PLA heroes and patriotic efforts in factories

International prestige - West = paper tigers, good example to rest of Asia

Nationalists - ROC secure and had US support

Relations with west - soured

Relations with USSR - reliant for aid and advice

Loss of 400,00 men