China mock for michaelmas term

In 1949, what percent of the population was a peasant?

80%

How many famines were there in the period 1901-36?

5 famines

What percent of the population was literate in 1949?

20%

Immediate impacts of the civil war?

1945 output was 25% of pre war levels, food supply was 30% lower than pre war, 20% of the population in cities, 1949 - hyperinflation at 1000%

Long term situations of 1949?

15% of land cultivable, natural disatsters such as Yangtze River floods 1931, 2 years of droughts

Population in 1949

541 million

Population in 1952

565 million

Population in 1953

587 million

Dates of the War with Japan

1937-45

Dates of the Civil War

1946-49

How many died in 1950 bombing raid on Shanghai by GMD?

6000

How many different ethnic groups in 1949?

50

When was the official consitiution implemented?

1954

How many ministries in the State Council?

24

How many Party members in October 1949?

4.5 million

How many Party members by the end of 1950?

5.8 million

What was the membership of the Youth Leauge in 1953?

9 million

What was the membership of the Women's Federation?

76 million

What percentage of population waere industrial workers in 1949?

1%

How many members in the standing committee?

5

How many members in the Politburo?

14

How many members in the PLA in 1930?

5 million

In 1930, what percentage of the state budget was spent of PLA?

40%

When was there a conscription law? How many new members each year?

1955, 800,000

When were the Reunification Campaigns?

1949-50

When was the Great Terror?

1950-51

How many people did Tao Zhu ('tank') kill in the Guangxi Provinvce in 12 months?

46,000 bandits

How many did people did Luo Ruiqing killing in Hubei following pressure in October 1951?

45,000

When was a bottleneck in prisons following the Great Terror?

Sumer 1951

How many were estimated to be killed during the Great Terror at a Party Conference in 1954?

710,000, historians estimated up to 2 million

How many criminals arrested in an attempt to crack down on gangs and triads?

150,000, half executed

When was the Three Antis Campaign?

1951-52

How many 'tigers' had Bo Yibo killed by end of Februry 1952 in East China?

100,000

When was the Five Antis campaign?

1952

What percentage of business men in Shanghai were foun guilty following the Five Antis campagin?

99%

When were Gao Gang and Rao Shushi accused of taking factions?

1953

How many prisoners in Laogai system in 1953? What fraction working as a forced labourer?

2 million, half

How many Yuan did the forced Laogia labourers generate?

1700 million

How many tonnes of grain to the state by Laogai labourers in 1955?

350,000 tonnes

How many deaths as a result of purges in 1949-79?

25 million

When was re-education through labour introduced?

1955

When was the Hundred Flowers Campaign announced?

Suprised speech in April 1954?

When did Mao continue to promote the Hundred Flowers Campaign?

Februray 1975

What percent of their unit were Cadres told to prosecute as righist during the Hundred Flowers Campaign?

5%

When was the Japanse occupation of Korea?

1910-45

When did war break out with with War in Korea? When did it end?

June 1950, 1953

When was the 'Germ Warfare Scare'?

February 1952

How many Chinese dies in the Korean War?

No official figure, but roughly 1 million

How much of government spending in 1951 went of the military? How much higher than 1950?

half, 75%

How much did trade fall by in 1951 as a result of the trade embargo?

30%