PO101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Mao Zedong, Price Controls, Cheryl Perera
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Ranked 54th, but sill ahead of canada. On track to become the largest economy in the world. Can be considered already the biggest economy in the world. Gdp per capita = ,200 #117 (mexico ,000, canada ,000, Countries set their own poverty line so it varies from country to country. Exports . 34 trillion (leader in the world) For centuries, chinese empire was at a forefront of cultural and scieniic development but it was authoritarian. Stresses the collecive good, not the individual. 1911-1912 the civil war broke our between the naionalists and the communists. Went on unil ww2 occupaion by the japanese. Mao zedong and people"s liberaion army and eventually defeated the naionalists. Ater ww2 the communists established a one-party system. Mao and the red army spread and crushed all opposiion using fear, assassinaions, mass killings. Except the great leap forward which was taking the farming economy and implemented centralized control. Resulted in huge famine that killed 30 million.
