Mao Zedong
•After he fled he began to rebuild the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
•Mao built party on the peasantry (no urban workers to deal with)
•Chiang fought hard to rid the CCP from their stronghold even as the Japanese began to invade Manchuria
•CCP fought guerrilla warfare
Mao's China 1949-1958
•Tradition in China gave new rulers “Mandate from Heaven”
•Democratic Centralism - Total obedience to the leader (Leninist model)
•The First Plan ( 5 year plan) - Some aid from USSR, Emphasis on heavy industry
•Like Russia there was a form of collectivization called APC’s (Agricultural Producer Co-Operatives)
•Mao built party on the peasantry (no urban workers to deal with)
•Chiang fought hard to rid the CCP from their stronghold even as the Japanese began to invade Manchuria
•CCP fought guerrilla warfare
Mao's China 1949-1958
•Tradition in China gave new rulers “Mandate from Heaven”
•Democratic Centralism - Total obedience to the leader (Leninist model)
•The First Plan ( 5 year plan) - Some aid from USSR, Emphasis on heavy industry
•Like Russia there was a form of collectivization called APC’s (Agricultural Producer Co-Operatives)
question
How would have Chang's China been in comparsion to Mao's China?
summary
was a Chinesecommunist revolutionary, and political theorist. The founding father of the People's Republic of China from its establishment in 1949, he governed the country as Chairman of the Communist Party of China until his death.