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| Question | Answer |
| Mao's attitude towards women | - Rebelled against his own arranged marriage - Heard of incident in which bride cuts her throat in front of wedding guests in protest at her arranged marriage - Very few significant government figures were women - 'Women hold up half the sky' |
| Land reform impacts on women | - Women gain property rights |
| Communist Party mantra on women | "Men and women are equal; everyone is worth his (or her) salt." |
| Communist propaganda about women | - Featured strong, working women serving the nation |
| Impacts of cultural revolution on family | - Breaks down family relationships for young people - Respect for elders destroyed - Surrogate family, the CCP, cuts the Red Guards off with the 'up to the mountains, down to the villages' campaign |
| New Democratic Youth League members by 1953 | 9 million |
| Communist Youth League replaced NDYL | 1957 |
| Women's Federation numbers | - 7.6 million members |
| Life expectancy across period | |
| Mao's initial aims after taking power | - consolidate party rule - stabilise the economy |
| number of Households in APCs from 1955-1956 | 17 million to 75 million - up to 63% of population |
| Mao quote about use of force | 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun' |
| Struggle meetings | Used in crackdowns such as Hundred Flowers, Land reform, Cultural Revolution - forced people to confess infront of audience |
| PLA numbers in 1950 | 5 million (strong) |
| Number of Chinese soldiers committed to Korean War | 2.3 million (66%) |
| Mao retreats from limelight | 1962 Deng Xiaoping & Liu Shaoqi step in to take control, embrace some capitalism 'It does not matter what colour the cat is, as long as it catches mice' |
| Mao publicly returns | 1966 - swims Yangtze river at age 73 |
| Cult of Mao | 1960s, while Mao absent |
| Mao's Little Red Book | 1964 - given to PLA, later becomes secular bible used to settle disputes, 350 million copies distrubuted |
| Diary of Lei Feng | 1963 - diary of PLA truck driver describing his patriotic exploits, eventually killed by lorry - probably fictional |
| Wu Han affair | - 1961-65 play by Wu Han featuring brave official standing up to cruel emperor - thought to be allegory of Peng Duhai's criticism of Mao during Great Leap Forward - Lin Biao used this as excuse to crack down on suspected critics of Mao |
| 'January revolution' | 1967 - militant urban workers overthrow local CCP officials and set-up peoples' commune - taking cultural revolution too far |
| Local CCP response to threat of purging during CR | - set up revolutionary committees with other cities, comprising red guards, PLA members, CCP officials |
| 9th Party Congress | 1969 - Cultural revolution declared over and a great success - Liu Shaoqi official removed |
| PLA dominance following CR | - 86% of provincial 1st secretaries - 66% of 'contrast???' - 50% of politburo - 45% of central comittee |
| Political consequences of CR | Mao removed many opponents - perhaps this was the intention, perhaps just bonus, and returned to limelight - many old leaders replaced |
| Decrease in PLA numbers 1950-57 | 1950 - 5 million 1953 - 3.5 million 1957 - 2.5 million |
| yellow river water level down | 1950s 2/3rds 66% of land affected |
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