1. Building a nation
China under Mao
Zedong

2. Achievements:
(a) effective national unity
(b) real independence
CCP led the way to the third goal:
(C) social-economic reform,
especially the abolition of the feudal
system in the countryside.

3. The Civil War

5. October 1, 1949
• Mao Zedong proclaimed the
birth of PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC
OF CHINA.
• “Our nation will never again be
an insulted nation.”
• “We have stood up.”

6. Colossal problems 1949

7. Reforming agriculture
Agrarian Reform Law - 1950
Practice “Self-Criticism

8. Reforming agriculture
Mutual-aid teams
Cooperative
Collective

9. Great leap forward
The objective of the
plan: to find the most
economical
way to feed China’s
700 Million people.

10. Great leap forward
1958- Plan to overtake
By 1970
By developing small industrial
Operations in the countryside.
Lessen the gap between rural and urban China

12. Great leap

14. Great leap fail
Withdrawal of Soviet’s support
Those who criticized Mao
believed that China Middle Class
Would have to be run
efficiently if it were to become
an
industrialized nation.

15. Where is you
Revolutionary
SPIRIT?
Give me an
S, P, I, R, I, .T
Nindut gyud ang ngipun ni Moy

16. Cultural revolution
It’s objectives:
To purge China of what Mao called
THE FOUR OLDS
Old Thoughts
Old Culture
“Bantay lang mu!” Ingun
Old Custom
Ni Papa Mao. Old Habits
How Bow Wow?

17. Education
Kapuya oy
Combination of work and study
Practical: Science, Russian, English

18. Propaganda in arts
Unsa ma na?
Selos?
Traditional art and literature were
Also condemned by the cultural revolution
The arts were to serve the masses by praising
Their accomplishments and glorify their struggles
Against feudalism and imperialism.

19. Revolutionary opera
Patyun ta ka
Weh !
inday!