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I enjoyed reading Chairman Mao is a Rotten Egg because it shows the relationship between parents and children and parents and the government under Mao Tse-tung. The mother in the story was very concerned with what she thought her child said because it had potential to jeopardize her relationship or right standing with the government. If her child, Ching-Ching, was a counterrevolutionary, there was a possibility that he would have been killed or at the least had his statement on record for the rest of his life. You can also see how other parents reacted to what they thought their children said. For example, Tung-Tung was in trouble later on in the story because his father thought that he had said something against Chairman Mao. The story also lets us know what Tung-Tung rarely cried, so for his father to become very angry about his statement more than if he had lied or done something else he knew he wasn’t supposed to do, their regard for Chairman Mao must be incredibly high.…
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Mao forced large harvests which caused farmers to lie in avoidance with punishment. The falsified crop output toward the public was made to seem like his plan was working, but this falsification caused famine once more by leaving citizens without enough food to feed themselves. Mao ruled over several years resulting in many decisions that intentionally killed millions of his fellow Chinese. “The mass murder was more clearly intentional on Mao’s part, and included large numbers of victims who were executed or tortured, as opposed to “merely” starved to death” (Somin, 2016). Life was very difficult for rural peasants and farmers.…
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Mao quickly figured out that the peasant class would be the heart of China’s revolutionary potential and in order to gain support, he would need to focus on them. In order to create a Marist heaven, the ultimate goal is to create a world with same classes – bourgeoisie, priest, landlords, the rich, and officers and officials are all sinful, and Mao’s plan is to eliminate them.…
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Mao Zedong was the founding father of the People’s Republic of China and he governed as chairman of the Communist Party of China when it began in 1949. However just because Mao was the leader, it did not mean he had full control over the whole of China. There were other powerful warlords that had control over certain regions and provinces in China that Mao claimed he was in control of, no government since 1911 had succeeded in breaking down the power of local warlords. If Mao wanted to achieve in establishing full control and national unity he would have to take control over various provinces, which he did. Mao used the PLA to invade Tibet, Xianjaing and Guandong. The PLA were an extremely powerful and huge military force, in 1949 they there were 5 million men under its command and it accounted for over 41% of the state budget, this money was especially going towards building a new air force and navy. The PLA were well trained, disciplined and Mao was able to move PLA effectively across China considering the vas size of the army. These are just some of the reasons why the PLA were so strong and why they were Mao’s most important weapon.…
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Chairman Mao dying in 1976 is the most important event that had changed Chen's life for the better. Mao was the leader of the country, and instilled the values that farmwork was the most valuable thing one could do with their lives, and that school wasn't necessary. Because Mao was sick. his wife ran the country for him, but with his passing someone else besides Mao's wife began to take over the country. The leading figures in Mao's cabinet were removed and many of the chiefs that were appointed either were arressted or left their homes to hide. The new reform in Chen's country led to a new college system. Chaiman Mao made his country believe that "school was bad and revolution was good" and now that he had passed, new leaders of the country…
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The Cultural Revolution, without a doubt, the most negative influence on China in history. From 1966, Chairman Mao started destroying the country from top to bottom his so-called ‘brilliant’ ideas did not have the correct effect at all. Chairman Mao led the nation to false information about the USA and Europe via an ‘education’, gave no freedom to the country’s citizens and worst of all, throughout the whole process, managed to kill over 40 Million people through starvation. Here is why Chairman Mao had a negative influence on China and its people.…
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