Historiography Flashcards
Treaty with USSR - CCP
“enables us to carry out our national reconstruction more freely”
Treaty with USSR - Fenby
“marked the country’s re-emergence on the world stage, albeit only the communist half of it”
Nationalities - Fenby
“could match the colonial scope of the dynasty”
Lives improved - Joseph Eshrick
“the CCP brought order and discipline to their environment, and this was probably as important to many as was any sense of liberation”
Repressive, lives improved - Maurice Meisner
“the new regime was authoritarian and repressive, but the cities were governed honestly and effectively for the first time in Chinese history”
Wisdom, foresightedness - CCP
“the CCP foresaw this inevitable class struggle”
HFM criticism- Chang
“Mao was setting a trap…. planning to persecute the educated en masse”
People support - CCP
“the whole people have supported the government by delivering grain and paying taxes”
HFM justif - Phillip Short
“HFM was the most ambitious attempt in any Communist country to combine a totalitarian system with democratic checks and balances”
Party unity - Liu
“a party split is more damaging than a defeat to the revolution”
Repressive - Fenby
“merely questioning the Chairman was outlawed”
People’s Communes - Ralph A Thaxton
“apartheid system for Chinese households”
GLF - Fenby
“to begin with, it was not without sense.. but it became more a vision than a rational economic program”
GLF - Fairbank
“the Chinese path to socialism had led over a cliff”
GLF, obedience - Fairbank
“the docility of the Chinese peasantry, who were remarkably inured to following the dictates of authority because it represented the peace and order on which their livelihood depended.. the people trusted Chairman Mao”
