china 1949-1953

Question 1

When were the 5 mass campaigns?

Answer 1

1950-1953

Question 2

When was the Resist America & Aid Korea Campaign?

Answer 2

1950-51

Question 3

What did Resist US & Aid Kor camp include?

Answer 3

Foreigners/US enemies, arrested & charged of being spies, Christian churches closed, priests & nuns expelled

Question 4

When was the Suppression of counter-revolutionaries campaign?

Answer 4

1950-51

Question 5

What did Suppression of counter-revolutionaries camp include?

Answer 5

Focused on internal threats/counter-revols, peeps w/ links to GMD/bandits. Large no. of Chinese investigated & punished.

Question 6

When was the 3 antis campaign?

Answer 6

1952

Question 7

What did 3 antis camp include?

Answer 7

Targeted corruption, waste & destructionist bureaucracy; managers, state officials/party members. Mass meetings were they were denounced. subjected themselves to self-criticism. Rooted out corruption

Question 8

When was the 5 Antis campaign?

Answer 8

1952

Question 9

What did 5 antis camp include?

Answer 9

Against bourgeoisie - bribery, tax evasion, economic espionage. Werkers organisations enlisted by party to investigate their employers affairs. Group criticism sessions set up for employers to be denounced.

Question 10

When was the Thot Reform Campaign?

Answer 10

1951-52

Question 11

What did Thot reform camp include?

Answer 11

Mao suspicious of intells - needed them to modernise China but couldn’t allow independent thinking/those educated in west. Forced them to study & learn MZT, professors forced to make confessions in front of students

Question 12

How many Chinese investigated & punished under Supr of Counter-revols camp?

Answer 12

40,000 in Shanghai & Guangdong 50,000

Question 13

How many mass meetings in 1952

Answer 13

3000

Question 14

How many suicides?

Answer 14

3 million

Question 15

What was set up in 1949-53

Answer 15

Large network of labour camps, nationwide network of work units, street/neibour cmtes

Question 16

What were the killing quotas

Answer 16

1 in 1000

Question 17

How many died in labour camps?

Answer 17

27 million

Question 18

When was 1st meeting of National Party congress that brought reps from diff party branches together?

Answer 18

1949

Question 19

When was next meeting of National Party Congress?

Answer 19

1956

Question 20

What were some mass autonomous organisations?

Answer 20

Urban neibour cmtes, public security cmtes, people.s mediation cmtes

Question 21

What are work units in Chinese?

Answer 21

Danwei

Question 22

What is Democratic Centralism?

Answer 22

CCP members free to express concerns/debate but have to accept final decisions of Politburo

Question 23

How many new conscroipts a year did PLA have?

Answer 23

300,000

Question 24

When was prostitution/drug dealing/crime stumped out?

Answer 24

1953

Question 25

When was Agrarian Reform Law?

Answer 25

1950

Question 26

What did Agrarian Reform Law include?

Answer 26

Confiscastion & redistribution of land

Question 27

When was Land Reform campaign?

Answer 27

1952

Question 28

What did Land Reform Camp include?

Answer 28

Class struggle so landlords killed/beaten.

Question 29

When did landlord class cease to exist?

Answer 29

1952

Question 30

How many landlords killed?

Answer 30

2 million

Question 31

How much of land redistributed to what % of peasant pop?

Answer 31

43% of land to 60% of pop.

Question 32

What was the United Front?

Answer 32

Alliance of peasants, urban working class, petty bourgeoisie & national bourgeoisie leading revol as working class not large enough to do so alone

Question 33

Deets of Land Reform Policy of 1949-1952?

Answer 33

Land reform extended to whole country speak bitterness sessions

Question 34

What was 1st stage of cooperative labour

Answer 34

Mutual aid teams: 7 households, excluded rich/middl e peasants.

Question 35

When where lower stage cooperatives introd?

Answer 35

1952-3 50 households Land & Labour pooled Used balance of labour & land share

Question 36

When were higher stage cooperatives introd?

Answer 36

Late 1955 300 households less land share more labour

Question 37

Till when where peasants allowed 5% of private land

Answer 37

1958

Question 38

When did 30% of farm income come from private land?

Answer 38

1956

Question 39

When where 93% of peasant households in higher stage APCs?

Answer 39

1957

Question 40

When per capita consumption of grain by peasants higher than that of urban workers?

Answer 40

1957