Mao's Social Problems (1949)

Question 1

What tradition were the Chinese rooted in?

Answer 1

Confucian.

Question 2

How many bandits roamed the countryside in 1949?

Answer 2

1 million.

Question 3

Who did bandits prey on?

Answer 3

Refugees of the Sino-Japanese and Civil Wars.

Question 4

What was China’s nickname pre-1949?

Answer 4

the ‘Sick Man of Asia’

Question 5

Why did Marxist theory value industrial workers?

Answer 5

They viewed them as the ‘Vanguard of Communism’, as Marxists believed that it was easier to mould them into a force of the communist revolution as they were more educated and could be organised easily in factories.

Question 6

What % of the Chinese population were industrial workers in 1949 and 1953?

Answer 6

5% in 1949 and 10% in 1953.

Question 7

Why did cadres find it hard to organise land reforms?

Answer 7

 Vast areas of lad made it difficult
 Cadres were inexperienced with how land in villages were organised
 They were unable to speak most village dialects
 Sometimes peasants were only interested in their local area and not with the revolutionary ideology

Question 8

How many different ethnic and religious groups were there in China?

Answer 8

50

Question 9

What was the main ethnic group in China?

Answer 9

Han Chinese