HISTORY 3EC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Maoism, War Brides Act, Confucius
19 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
SeungJoon SUNG
East Asian Cultures (Chin)
TuTh 12:30-1:45pm
Nov/6/2012
#14 Reading & Class Notes for Nov 6
Maoism
Reforms
Thought Reform to Maoism (little red book)
Chinese characters simplified to make learning easier; literacy jumped
Land Reform:
landlords purged
shared communes set up in Five Year Plan 1949-53
larger communes called collectives set up in Five Year Plan 1954-58)
Men & Women both worked Productivity increased (at the cost of family life)
Women worked older people took care of children & cooked
Worked well, with enough food to go around
Hundred Flowers (1957)
Mao wanted to know what people thought (he thought people would respond positively)
Complaints flooded in b/c of lack of family life
Mao quickly put a halt and moved on
Great Leap Forward (1958)
Food: collectives continued
Industry: infrastructure rebuilt (JP bombings had destroyed them)
Goal: Pass Britain in steel production in 15 years
“backyard furnaces” – melt metal to create steel “steel” did not hold up went to waste
AKA Great Fall Backwards
Cadres falsified reports more tax collected peasants starved (20m deaths)
Mao realizes there is corruption + an elite class is forming
Cultural Revolution (1966-76)
Sought to eliminate elite class (no one should sit back and relax when people are working)
Eliminated those who thought they were better
“What’s wrong with Chinese stuff?” People with Western influence became targets
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Document Summary
#14 reading & class notes for nov 6. Chinese characters simplified to make learning easier; literacy jumped. Shared communes set up in five year plan 1949-53. Larger communes called collectives set up in five year plan 1954-58) Men & women both worked productivity increased (at the cost of family life) Women worked older people took care of children & cooked. Worked well, with enough food to go around. Mao wanted to know what people thought (he thought people would respond positively) Complaints flooded in b/c of lack of family life. Mao quickly put a halt and moved on. Industry: infrastructure rebuilt (jp bombings had destroyed them) Goal: pass britain in steel production in 15 years. Backyard furnaces melt metal to create steel steel did not hold up went to waste. Cadres falsified reports more tax collected peasants starved (20m deaths) Mao realizes there is corruption + an elite class is forming.
