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MAO Politics part 2 Flashcards

1
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Why did the PLA enjoy a special place in Communist mythology?

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Defeated the Japanese and the GMD; epitomised revolutionary values

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How many people made up the PLA in 1950?

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5 million

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How much of the state budget did the PLA consume in 1950?

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Over 40%

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How many men was the PLA reduced to by 1957?

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2.5 million

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Who supervised the reduction in the numbers of the PLA?

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Minister of Defence, Peng Dehuai

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What happened to the PLA as it became smaller?

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Became more professional; more technically advanced; less egalitarian; with differentiated pay scales between clearly defined ranks

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When did the PLA’s political department draw up a new code of conduct, stressing the need to help peasants on collective farms?

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1956

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How many young men were conscripted to the PLA each year and for how long?

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800,000; 3-year term

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How did the PLA remain of pivotal importance to the PRC post-1949?

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Acted as a means of indoctrination; a workforce for rebuilding transport infrastructure after the civil war; a means of enforcing central gov control in the regions

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When did Mao become leader of the CCP?

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1943

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What made Mao head of state as well as of the Party?

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Appointment as chair of the Central People’s Government

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What are early examples of Mao setting the pace and direction of policy?

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Korean War 1950; ‘five antis’ campaign 1952

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What are some examples of Mao’s power not being absolute?

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1956 Party Congress removed ref to Mao Zedong Thought while Mao was ill; Hundred Flowers campaign 1956-57; debate about pace of agricultural change

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Who did Mao like to compare himself to?

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First Qin emperor who had united China in 3rd century BC

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15
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Why did Mao have to adapt Marxism for China?

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Only 1% of the population could be classed as industrial workers

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Where did Mao first build strong links between the Communists and the peasantry?

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Jiangxi; Yanan

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17
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What were the different aspects of Mao Zedong thought?

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Nationalism; continuing revolution; listening to the people; mass mobilisation

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What was reaffirmed in the 1954 constitution as one of the principles on which the PRC was based?

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Democratic centralism

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Where did the Great Terror begin?

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Rural areas- October 1950

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When did the Great Terror spread to the cities?

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April 1951

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How many people were killed in the Great Terror?

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1/2 million

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Who was the next target of the regime after the Great Terror?

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Professionals who had been asked to stay in their posts, but whose support became less important as time passed

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How many government officials were sacked in the ‘three antis’ movement in 1951?

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Over a million

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Who was attacked in the 1952 ‘five antis’ campaign?

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Business community

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25
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Where were the reunification campaigns?

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Guangdong; Xinjiang; Tibet

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26
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When were the reunification campaigns?

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1950-51

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27
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When did the civil war drag on in the far south until?

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End of 1950

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Why was Guangdong targeted during the reunification campaigns?

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GMD heartland during the last months of the civil war; town of Guangzhou was the GMD capital

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How long did it take for the PLA to secure Guangdong after the declaration of the PRC?

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2 weeks

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What was the population of Xinjiang like?

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Ethnically mixed, but 80% were Uyghurs, most of whom were Muslims

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How was the nationalist opposition in Xinjiang subdued by the Communist Party?

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By a combination of conquest and negotiation

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Why was Xinjiang targeted during the reunification campaigns?

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Westernmost province of China, which had only been conquered by the Qing in the 1880s; Russians had been developing it as a potential buffer state

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What were the local Uyghur leaders in Xinjiang offered?

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Key posts in the regional council

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When did Peng use the PLA to capture Urumqi, the provincial capital of Xinjiang?

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End of 1949

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How was future Communist control established in Xinjiang?

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Appointment of a Long March veteran to run the local CCP and army unit

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36
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What did Xinjiang become for China after the reunification campaign there?

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Security buffer zone

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37
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How did the Party distill the Uyghur population in Xinjiang?

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Sent in large members of Han Chinese to work on construction projects

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38
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When had Tibet been operating as an independent entity from?

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1913

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39
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Why was Tibet left alone to face Chinese conquest?

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India was independent and so the British were no longer interested in protecting Tibet; UN was too busy with Korea; Russia had agreed to allow China a free hand there, in return for the same in Outer Mongolia; too far from the USA for its direct influence to come into play

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40
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When did the PLA invade Tibet?

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October 1950

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41
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When did Tibet come under Chinese sovereignty?

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May 1951

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How did the PRC begin a prolonged campaign to destroy Tibetan identity after the country had come under Chinese sovereignty?

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Brought in large numbers of Han settlers; promoted a Chinese lifestyle

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43
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Who backed the local resistance to the PRC in Tibet?

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American CIA

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44
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How was every employed worker allocated food, clothing and housing?

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Through a danwei

45
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How many different class labels were there?

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60, divided into 3 broad categories- ‘good’, ‘middle’ and ‘bad’

46
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How were people assigned class labels?

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According to their presumed loyalty to the revolution

47
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What were the class labels eventually simplified into?

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‘Red’ or ‘black’

48
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Why did the class labels determine an individual’s fate for years to come?

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Children inherited the status of the head of their household

49
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Dangan

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A dossier containing detailed personal information on anyone that came to the attention of the Party- access to employment, housing or pensions depended on this

50
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How long did it take for people of ‘dubious’ class backgrounds, whose professional expertise was contributing to the regime, to be targeted?

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12 months

51
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Which groups of ‘criminals’ were particularly targeted in the initial crackdown on crime?

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Beggars; prostitutes

52
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In the short-term, how were the police ordered to clean up the cities initially?

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By relocating criminals and ‘nuisances’ to the countryside or locking them up

53
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Why was the initial crackdown on crime popular among many urban residents?

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Longed to see order restored after so many years of war and chaos

54
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Why was the initial crackdown on crime not as effective as hoped?

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Many of those rounded up and sent away simply drifted back as soon as they could; ‘re-education’ camps were quickly full

55
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Where were the triads particularly notorious for their influence on underworld crime?

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Guangzhou; Shanghai

56
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How many criminals were arrested in the initial crackdown on crime?

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150,000

57
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How many criminals were executed in the initial crackdown on crime?

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Over 1/2 of those arrested

58
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When was the Great Terror?

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1950-51

59
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Who were the most significant figures in orchestrating the Great Terror?

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Tao Zhu; Luo Ruiqing; Rao Shushi

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Tao Zhu

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Dispatched to orchestrate the clampdown in Guangxi province on the Vietnam border- here, particularly brutal treatment was required because of its lingering nationalist sympathies

61
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What was Tao Zhu known as?

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‘The tank’

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Luo Ruiqing

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Head of security in Beijing; responsible for transmitting Mao’s wishes to provincial leaders

63
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What did Mao suggest as the killings in the Great Terror threatened to get out of hand?

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Killing roughly 1/1000 of the local population as an acceptable target, which could be adjusted according to local circumstances

64
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What did Mao’s suggestion of slowing down the killings in the Great Terror do?

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Allowed him to pose as the voice of moderation; made sure that the officials below him took the actual decisions and were inextricably implicated in the terror

65
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During the Great Terror, when was it proposed that the killings be extended to the enemies inside the CCP itself?

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March 1951

66
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Who proposed that the Great Terror should be extended to the CCP itself?

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Rao Shushi

67
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What was the Great Terror designed to do?

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Remove opponents; deter others

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Why did the Terror initially claim fewer lives in the cities?

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Partly due to fears of adverse publicity; partly because urban professionals were still needed

69
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When was a top-ranking military officer shot dead at a concert in Jinan?

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March 1951

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What did the Jinan shooting result in?

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Coordinated raid in 16 cities and the arrests of nearly 17,000 people

71
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When was the post-Jinan shooting raid?

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28 April 1951

72
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What were young Party activists forced to do during the Terror to immerse them in the revolutionary experience?

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Watch mass executions

73
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What was the official figure for the number of people killed during the Terror, stated at a Party convention in 1954?

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710,000

74
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When did the Great Terror calm down?

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October 1951

75
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What did the ‘three antis’ movement target?

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Corruption, waste and delay in the government and Party

76
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What was the catalyst of the ‘three antis’ movement?

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Arrest in November 1951 of Zhang Zishan and Liu Qingshan, charged with embezzling large sums from the Party

77
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Who were Zhang Zishan and Liu Qingshan?

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2 leading members of the CCP hierarchy in Tianjan

78
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How were Zhang Zishan and Liu Qingshan punished?

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Executed

79
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Who was put in charge of the ‘three antis’ movement?

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Bo Yibo, minister of finance

80
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What were suspects accused of small-scale embezzlement referred to as in the ‘three antis’ movement?

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‘Flies’

81
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What were suspects accused of larger-scale corruption referred to as in the ‘three antis’ movement?

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‘Tigers’

82
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When was the ‘five antis’ campaign launched?

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January 1952

83
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What were the ‘five antis’?

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Bribery; tax evasion; theft of state property; fraud; economic espionage

84
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When were Gao Gang and Rao Shushi purged?

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Late 1953

85
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Gao Gang

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Rose to favour as a force in economic planning but had over-reached himself and began plotting to replace Zhou Enlai as vice-chairman of the Party

86
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What were Gao Gang and Rao Shushi accused of doing?

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Infringing the ban on factions and building up their own empires within the Party

87
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What happened to Gao Gang and Rao Shushi?

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Gao committed suicide, rather than face humiliation; Rao was arrested and died in jail in 1975

88
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What did the Gao Gang and Rao Shushi affair do for Mao?

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Reinforced his position at the top; made the cadres lower down realise that it was dangerous to take opposition too far

89
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What was the official explanation of the laogai camps?

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Places of re-education rather than of punishment

90
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How many prisoners were in the laogai by 1953?

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2 million

91
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How were the laogai of economic value?

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Contributed some 700 million yuan in industrial products and 350,000 tonnes of grain to the state each year by 1955

92
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How were the laogai prisoners used during the GLP?

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Convenient means of getting the most hazardous jobs done, such as mining and clearing malaria-infested swamps

93
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How many of prisoners in the laogai were there for political reasons?

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9/10

94
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Thought reform

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Form of mental torture where laogai prisoners had to demonstrate that they had totally changed their way of thinking

95
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When did the prison population bloom, due to a further purge of counter-revolutionaries?

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1955

96
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How many people are thought to have died in the prisons?

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25 million

97
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Guanzhi

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Placing people under public supervision

98
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When was the Hundred Flowers Campaign?

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1957

99
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When did Mao surprise everyone by calling for open debate about the results of the 1FYP?

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1956

100
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When did Mao first call on CCP delegates to ‘let a hundred flowers bloom’?

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April 1956

101
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What Russian event caused Mao to call for open debate with the Hundred Flowers campaign?

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De-Stalinisation

102
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Which European event affected Mao’s change of heart with the Hundred Flowers campaign?

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Hungarian uprising October 1956

103
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What did Mao think of the intellectuals?

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Didn’t trust them but he knew that they had a valuable contribution to make to the economy

104
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When did Mao unsuccessfully attempt to launch the Hundred Flowers campaign for the second time?

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CCP Congress in November 1956

105
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Where was the Hundred Flowers campaign launched?

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In a major speech of Mao’s in February 1957

106
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What had led to the arrest of roughly a hundred intellectuals two years before the Hundred Flowers campaign?

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Media campaign against Hu Feng

107
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Which newspaper was ordered to give coverage to the debate of the Hundred Flowers campaign?

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People’s Daily

108
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How many people were put into the ‘re-education camps’ as a result of the Hundred Flowers campaign?

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1/2 million

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