Utopia
Idealistic
Money is gained based on how much a person or family needs
Everyone is equal
Monetary expression is not valued
Works best in small society
Reforms
Redistributed land to peasants, and killed landlords
Women = Men
Just as Sexist as previous society
Women still had to raise the children, and come home from work and cook
This only applied to getting a job
Controlled all intellectual life
No freedoms
Suggested the formation of a Cooperative
People kept their land, but people pooled resources to purchase the tools and machinery to afford equipment
Collectivization 1953
Private property is abolished
Pressure to join the communes
People who work harder receive more material benefits
Forces 600 mil peasants to join the Collective
Many Farmers either refuse to join or start being lazy
100 Flowers to Bloom
Mao decided to allow criticism of party corruption
People criticized
Party hated
A year later who complained in the previous year is arrested and re-educated
Anti-Rightist Campaign
Anyone who had complained denounced
Needed to turn in 10 people out 100
Great Leap Forward ( 1958-1961 )
30 million people starve to death
Steel Industries start to appear
Everyone works extremely hard
Communes no longer have family life.
Everyone is ordered to make steel.
This steel is useless since it is really fragile.
Complete Disaster
Cultural Revolution
He allows the party to take over
They start to bring in freedoms and give back private property
Red Guard - Empowered students who are assigned the task of killing the bourgeoisie, and all western influence.
Reforms ~ Deng Xiaoping
Contract Responsibility System - Farmers get to privatize farms, and communes are broken apart
Agricultural Output doubles, or triples in certain sectors
Establishes individual private property
Special Economic Zones - Cities that are along the coast that were in essence capitalist
People were allowed to own their own property: Stores, Industry, etc.
Creates a Middle Class
Foreign Investors - Connects China to the world around them
The First place is the USA
Creates Foreign Exchange Programs for Students
Arts Encouragement - Encourages
Politburo - Rules based on a committee rather than an authoritarian leader
Tiananmen Square Massacre
1989 | Protests - College students in China began demanding more political rights
Freedom of Speech
Freedom of Religion
Right to Vote
Deng and China's leaders had to decide whether to allow for more rights and democracy or to crush the protest
June 4th 1989 | Massacre - Military and Police arrest, and open fire on thousands of protest
Tank Man - A single man stood in front of the line of tanks rolling into the square