HIEA 2031 Lecture Notes - Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping
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Fall 2022: the new order: consolidation and rebuilding, xinhua new china. The post-war agenda: challenges, pragmatism, foreign policy, liu shaoqi, zhou enlai. Korean war: outbreak, chinese position, macarthur, china enters the war, effects. Achievements of chinese government by 1952: cities, agrarian reform, lines of development, pragmatists leninists, led by liu shaoqi and deng xiaoping, rapid development. First five year plan for economic development, 1953-57: soviet model planned economy, heavy industry, extraction from rural economy. Prc had many challenges initially: startup food production, jumpstart the economy, end the remnants of nationalist army, buildup industrial base to modernize the economy. Willing to utilize expertise of old gmd members that remained and. Liu shaoqi wanted to get help from soviets (alliance) Zhou enlai felt that overreliance on one side or another would cause. China to take actions that they wouldn"t necessarily want to: requested that us government cease support on gmd and support prc entrance into un us refused.