Mao’s China - Past Questions
2024
How far do you agree that, in the years 1949–56, the CCP was able to overwhelmingly
defeat its opponents within China?
Crime Class opposition Nationalist remenants
- Organised crime was an - Rightists and Anti - National remnants were
opponent to the regime as it Revolutionaries were less of a direct threat as the
prevented CCP control of targeted in the Three and vast majority of Chiang Kai
the urban areas, which were Five Antis (1951-52) Shek’s GMD supporters had
vital to industrialisation. - Class labelling (Red, Black fled with him to China
- By eliminating organised etc.) was used to speed up - The party first ‘reunified’
crime gangs (triads), the the denunciation process of Guangdong (GMD
CCP could impose its new ‘kulaks’ - rich peasants, heartland) through a PLA
system of democratic factory owners, landlord etc. invasion - capitulating just 2
centralism to enforce control - This was also facilitated by weeks after the CCP had
through further rounds of the handbook ‘how to hold a been established,
terror. denunciation meeting’ and eliminating a huge chunk of
The clampdown on crime denunciated boxes which remaining nationalist
began in 1949: reduced the guilt associated support.
- Arrested 150,000 with condemning your - After, they offered more
members of triads, ½ were coworkers. lenient treatment to
executed - Furthermore, potential ex-nationalists who turned
- The rest were largely counter revolutionaries themselves in, which was
deported to the Laogai within the party such as the taken up to some degree.
which enabled them to be wave of new bureaucrats
sufficiently ‘re-educated were targeted in the 3 Antis
through labour’ and which eliminated internal
returned. opponents
‘The instability in China caused by the Cultural Revolution in the years 1966–67 was
successfully overcome in the years 1968–76.
Up to the mountains, Political instability The clampdown by the
down to the Villages PLA
campaign
- Over the period 1968-70, - Initially, moderates within - The clapdown by the PLA
the Red Guards were set the party were purged; their occurred following Mao’s
into rural areas as a part of pragmatic views would no realisation the Cultural
the ‘up into the mountains, longer be tolerated, only Revolution was becoming
down into the villages ideologues like Mao would so chaotic the party may
campaign’ be accepted begin to lose power.
- Previously, the - Deng Xiaoping's son was - The January Storm
‘revolutionary tourism’ and thrown off a balcony by Red ‘Peoples’ Coup in 1967 was
calls to ‘smash the four olds’ Guards, paralysed whilst Liu initially supported but posed
from Mao and Lin Biao and and his wife were dragged a serious threat to CCP
2024
How far do you agree that, in the years 1949–56, the CCP was able to overwhelmingly
defeat its opponents within China?
Crime Class opposition Nationalist remenants
- Organised crime was an - Rightists and Anti - National remnants were
opponent to the regime as it Revolutionaries were less of a direct threat as the
prevented CCP control of targeted in the Three and vast majority of Chiang Kai
the urban areas, which were Five Antis (1951-52) Shek’s GMD supporters had
vital to industrialisation. - Class labelling (Red, Black fled with him to China
- By eliminating organised etc.) was used to speed up - The party first ‘reunified’
crime gangs (triads), the the denunciation process of Guangdong (GMD
CCP could impose its new ‘kulaks’ - rich peasants, heartland) through a PLA
system of democratic factory owners, landlord etc. invasion - capitulating just 2
centralism to enforce control - This was also facilitated by weeks after the CCP had
through further rounds of the handbook ‘how to hold a been established,
terror. denunciation meeting’ and eliminating a huge chunk of
The clampdown on crime denunciated boxes which remaining nationalist
began in 1949: reduced the guilt associated support.
- Arrested 150,000 with condemning your - After, they offered more
members of triads, ½ were coworkers. lenient treatment to
executed - Furthermore, potential ex-nationalists who turned
- The rest were largely counter revolutionaries themselves in, which was
deported to the Laogai within the party such as the taken up to some degree.
which enabled them to be wave of new bureaucrats
sufficiently ‘re-educated were targeted in the 3 Antis
through labour’ and which eliminated internal
returned. opponents
‘The instability in China caused by the Cultural Revolution in the years 1966–67 was
successfully overcome in the years 1968–76.
Up to the mountains, Political instability The clampdown by the
down to the Villages PLA
campaign
- Over the period 1968-70, - Initially, moderates within - The clapdown by the PLA
the Red Guards were set the party were purged; their occurred following Mao’s
into rural areas as a part of pragmatic views would no realisation the Cultural
the ‘up into the mountains, longer be tolerated, only Revolution was becoming
down into the villages ideologues like Mao would so chaotic the party may
campaign’ be accepted begin to lose power.
- Previously, the - Deng Xiaoping's son was - The January Storm
‘revolutionary tourism’ and thrown off a balcony by Red ‘Peoples’ Coup in 1967 was
calls to ‘smash the four olds’ Guards, paralysed whilst Liu initially supported but posed
from Mao and Lin Biao and and his wife were dragged a serious threat to CCP
