Mao's china

1949

When did Mao establish his rule?

541 million to 584 million

What did the population of China become from 1949 - 1953?

70%

How much of state industry was owned by 1945?

1.8 to 3.5 million

How many people died during the civil war?

That it was foreign exploitation and needed to be exterminated

What did Mao believe about nationalism?

40%

In 1950, what percentage of the state budget did the PLA consume?

3.5 million and 2.5 million

The PLA was reduced down from 5 million to what in 1953 and 1957?

4.5 million

How many bureaucrats were there by 1949?

Cadres

Who ran the civil service?

Oliarchy

What is it called when a single higher authority maintains power above local villages?

1956

When was the 100 flowers campaign established?

Anti - rightist campaign

What did the 100 flowers campaign continue as until 1959?

Intellectuals and struggle sessions

Who and how were people sentenced in the 100 flowers campaign?

Poor peasant and industrial worker

Name 2 people from a good class in the labelling system?

petty bourgeoisie and intellectuals

Name 2 people from a middle class in the labelling system?

Landlords and rich peasants

Name 2 people from a bad class in the labelling system?

1950-1951

When was the great terror?

1 in every 1000 people

What was the set target killing during the great terror?

1953

When was the Laogai system established?

700 million

How much yuan did the laogai system contribute?

350'000 tonnes

How much grain was produced by laogai system?

1'330'000

How many people were prisoners in the laogai system?

15 million

How many people were killed via the laogai system from 1949 - 1976?

150'000

How many criminals form triads were arrested?

Tibet, Guangdong and Xianjing

Where were the three reunification campaigns held in 1949-1950?

6 months

How long did Tibet take to capture?

80%

What percentage of Xianjing were Uyghurs?

GMD

To whom was Guangdong the heartland for?

GAO gang and Rui shushi

who was attacked during the anti campaigns in 1953?

1%,1% and 3%

During the anti - campaigns how many were shot, sent to labour camps and jailed?

Flies and tigers?

What were the nicknames of small scale and large scale embezzlement criminals?

100'000

How many tigers did Bo Yibo catch in 1953?

30%

The trade embargo placed on Chinese goods in the US caused what percentage of foreign trade fall in the first six months of 1951?

75% higher

What was the annual budget for 1951 compared to 1950 during the Korean War?

50%

How much of government spending was on the military by 1951?

3 billion

By how much was China in debt by with The Soviet Union?

180'000

How many soldiers died during the Korean War?

Local public security bureau

What did foreigners have to register with during the Korean War?

Got rid of all pets due to bourgeoise decadence and framed USA for a virus attack

What 2 things did the germ warfare scare do to china?

Manchuria and the largest industrial sector in China

What did the winning of the Korean War enable security over?

1950

When was the sino soviet treaty introduced?

12 million

How many teenagers left on the rustification campaign from 1968 - 1972?

2 % In 1971 and policy introduced in 1979

What did the birth rate drop to and when was the one child policy introduced?

1950

When was the marriage law introduced?

Banned concubinage, polygamy and bridal pay as well as giving the right to divorce to women

What do the marriage law introduce?

1950

When was the land redistribution act established?

Increased women's emancipation, provided kinder gardens to relive women of domestic chores but introduced wife selling and a 60% increase in divorce rate from 1960 - 1962

What did the redistribution act entail?

arranged marriages and polygamy

Why were Muslims considered a threat to communists?

Model worker Deng Yulan and mass mobilisation

What weakened misogyny in China?

Equal pay

What were women ultimately entitled to by 1976?

8% to 32%

How many women were in the workforce by 1976 from 1949

1958

When was pinyin officially adopted?

20% and 70%

What was the national literacy rate in 1949 and 1976?

6.4%

How much of china's total budget was spent on education?

50%

How many children were in full time education between the ages of 7 - 16 in 1956?

Key schools

What were the subjective schools acted towards children of the CCP members?

130 million

How many students stopped education from 1966-1970?

1 million in 1966

How many barefoot doctors were there and when was it introduced?

6 months to provide general healthcare and facilities to rural areas and the peasantry

How long were barefoot doctors trained for and what were they trained for?

90%

How many villages were involved in the barefoot doctor scheme by 1976?

1952

When was the patriotic health movement introduced?

To prevent the use of night soil fertilisers and dig deeper and further away waste pits

What did the patriotic health movement do?

41 to 62

What did the life expectancy rise from in 1950 to 1970?

damaged ecological balance by introducing sparrowcide

What did the four pests do?

To pursue personal vendettas on actresses who beat her to a part in a play or film

What did the Jiang Qing use the art revolution for?

'sweep away the demons' by Chen Boda

What tone by whom was it set by in 1966?

Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas

What were the four olds that the red guards hunted?

1959

When did Tibet re-emerge and attack the CCP?

The famine

What did the government deliberately force into Tibet?

25%

How much of Tibet's population died under the famine?

6000

How many Buddhist monasteries were closed?

As they had very traditional views that the communists needed to eradicate

What did Confucianism contradict the communists?

Qufu

What hometown did Beijing students attack?

Lin Biao and Jiang Qing

In 1973, Who did the 'Confucius and co' campaign discredit after their death in 1971 and who launched it?

Self patriotic movement

What did church's become owned by in 1953?

Zhou enlai

Whose death saw a large revival of ancestor worship that was eliminated by the CCP?

To root out corruption and stop a new class of mandarins forming

Why were the bureaucracy attacked during the cultural revolution?

1963 and rooted out corruption in rural cadres

When was the socialist education movement introduced and what did it do?

1965

When was the attack on wuhan?

Liu Shaoqui and Deng Xiaoping

Who opposed maps policies in the 1960's?

1966 to stir actions of students

Why and when was the wall poster campaign introduced?

Mao swam in the Yangtze River and Deng Xiaoping + Liu Shaoqui we're subjected to struggle sessions

What happened in July 1966?

1963

When was the little red book and diary of lei feng introduced and compulsory to have by?

Bombard the head quarters as well as Tiamenem square rallies

What happened in August 1966?

1 million

How many people attended the tianmnen square rally?

The work permit all employees had to posses

What was the DANWEI?

Records of their whole lives previous to that day

What was the dan gang?

Permit that allowed residency and the ability to travel/relocate accommodation

What was the Whuku?

1966 on 8th August

When was the first mass rally held during the cultural revolution?

Free rail passes

What was issued to all of the PRC by Lin Biao to increase mass mobilisation?

Change street names, names of people to "red-Hero" and burned supposed bourgeoise authors

Name three things the attack on the four olds did?

Red army destroyed 7000 places of historical importance in Beijing

What happened in the late September of 1966?

Forbidden city

What did Zhou Enlai convince people not vandalise?

67'000

How many people were killed in Guanxi from 1966-76?

1967 and tried to be stopped by the January Storm

When did the factions of the red guard attack each other and what was tried to stop it?

Babaoshan

What craematorium dispossessed of 2000 bodies in 1966?

Compulsory movement of 5 million youths to to the countryside between 1968 and 1970

What was the rustification campaign?

1976 after the tianmen square incident

When was Deng Xiaoping purged for the second time?

The red army

Who did the PLA purge during cultural evolution?

29

How many provincial committees were setup in 1968 to declare the country was now red?