century it is often customary to try and label the conflict either Left Wing or Right Wing. However‚ in the cases of Sun Yat-sen and Mao Zedong‚ neither Left nor Right Wing seems an appropriate label for what their revolutions contained for China. The difference between democratic and anti-democratic is more fitting for the two Chinese revolutionaries. Both Sun and Mao advocated different methods of development to achieve the same goals but caused drastically different results. Sun Yat-sen‚ who was
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Mao Zedong was a bad leader for China. While Mao was in power‚ many people lost their lives due to the Red Guards. The Red Guards were enforcing Mao’s policies because they thought that was the correct thing to do. The Red Guards assaulted people who held different opinions regarding the change in the culture of China. This resulted in people losing their lives ( Schwartz‚ 5). For example‚ when the peasants challenged Mao’s opinion about what they were told to do during the Great Leap Forward they
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The political atmosphere after the death of Mao Zedong can be characterized as tense and filled by reforms. It is arguable that after Mao’s death China was left a fragile country with no central figure of authority. A new authority had to take over the leadership position. This was mainly aimed to restore order as well as work on the promises of the previous leadership. Mao’s government had promised a lot of change and social re-organization in China. It is also noticeable that the government worked
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Whereas Mao was influenced primarily by Western ideologies‚ Ghandi based the Indian revolution within a mix of Hindu and Western influences. First and foremost to Ghandi was the idea of Indian Nationalism and the strong sense of being exclusively Indian‚ a romantic notion also preached by Henry David Thoreau. When Thoreau speaks of an American government that he wishes was less controlling‚ he insists‚ “The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it
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Bader Al Majed IB History China and Mao Origins and nature of the authoritarian and single-party states * Conditions that produced authoritarian and single-party states * Mao Zedong came to power and created the People’s Republic of China after decades of civil and international war. * The Communist party assumed power and utilized propaganda strategies to alter people’s opinions and outlooks. * Emergence of leaders: aims‚ ideology‚ support * Communist ideology helped him
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(Tanner 48). This style of government Chiang is exercising is not complying with the ideals of Americans. Chiang continues to go against the ideas of Americans‚ as “His penchant for authoritarianism and his confidence in a military solution to the Communist insurrection put in at odds with his American interlocutors” (Tanner 48). But in the end in order to reach to this goal‚
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most powerful rulers”. Mao Zedong was the icon of the communist revolution and the founding father of the People’s Republic of China (PRC)‚ which he governed as Chairman of the Communist party of China (CPC) from its establishment to his death. His influence is still a force to contend with today as he remains China’s most famous or infamous leader of the twentieth century. Aiming to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy to a modern industrialized society‚ Mao launched the Great Leap
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agriculture‚ and for mistakes that had led to appalling lose of life in the Second War World. Mao was livid with anger by this denouncement of his supporter.( film -China) Mao Zedong also started to see signs that that Soviet Union wanted to take control of Russia. This created tension between the China and Russia leading the eventual break-up. Another contributing factor of the two nations spilt was Mao demand for the Soviet to give China an atomic bomb. The Soviet Union rejected this demand.(
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BIOGRAPHY MAO TSE-TUNG Mao Tse-Tung was a principal Chinese Marxist theorist‚ a soldier and a statesman who commanded China’s communist revolution. He was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party from 1935; he was chairman of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 until his death on 1959. Mao was born in a farming community in Hunan Province‚ China to a peasant family. As a child‚ he worked in the fields and attended a local primary school where he studied traditional Confucian classics. He
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that Germany had controlled. However‚ the land went to the Japanese‚ who had entered the war in 1914. May 4th started the movement towards a new culture‚ and a mass rejection of all foreigners‚ giving a more directed purpose to the revolutionaries. Mao participated by starting a newspaper The Xiang River Review‚ notable for his avocation of anarchy and denunciation of violent revolution: "we will not pursue that ineffectual ’revolution of blood.’" Idea for CCP Started in
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