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Sep 17, 2010 · Mao's Great Leap Forward 'killed 45 million in four years'. Mao Zedong, founder of the People's Republic of China, qualifies as the greatest mass murderer in world history, an expert who...
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Hua Guofeng →. Mao Zedong [a] (26 December 1893 – 9 September 1976) was a Chinese politician, Marxist theorist, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China (PRC). He led the country from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976, while also serving as the chairman of the Chinese ...
Nov 9, 2009 · All Rights Reserved. Mao Zedong led communist forces in China through a long revolution and ruled the People's Republic of China from its formation in 1949 until his death in 1976.
Nov 24, 2013 · Between 1958 and 1962, Mao Zedong embarked on a mad and brutal scheme to transform the Chinese economy through forced collectivization—the so-called Great Leap Forward. Historian Frank...
- I. “The Red Terror”
- II. “All-Round Civil War” in China
- III. Killing For and by The New Organs of Power
- IV. Endless Killing
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The very beginning of the Cultural Revolution in China immediately led to violent mass chaos in June 1966. As indicated by a militant editorial on June 1 in the People’s Daily, an official guideline for the Cultural Revolution, the main purpose of this unprecedented political campaign was to “Sweep Away All Cow-Demons and Snake-Spirits,” which not ...
During the political campaign of criticizing Liu Shaoqi (the President of the State) and Deng Xiaoping (General Secretary of the Party), Mao’s key rivals, in the late months of 1966, the mass organizations, including the Red Guards, were divided into two rival factions nationwide: rebels and conservatives. The former was closer to Mao’s goal of a n...
The goal of the Cultural Revolution was not only to purge Mao’s rivals from the Party nationwide, but also to create new organs of power. According to Mao’s original vision, the new form of government—the revolutionary committee — was to have been established in every jurisdiction by February 1968, the Chinese New Year (Su, 2006: 114). However, sin...
After 1971, the large scale of mass killings gradually subsided, partly due to the government’s effort to restore some order from the chaos after the bloody suppression. Another contributing factor was a new wave of inter-elite struggles that burst out in the Party Central between Mao and his lieutenants during the last four years of the Cultural R...
BOBAI xian zhi bian zhuan wei yuan hui [Editorial Board of the Bobai county Annals] (ed.), Bobai xian zhi[Bobai county Annals] 1994, Nanning: Guangxi ren min chu ban she. BU, Weihua, 2008, “Za lan jiu shi jie”: Wen hua da ge ming de dong luan he hao jie (1966-1968) [“Smash the Old World”: Havoc of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1968)],Hong K...
In January 2021 the United States announced that China was committing genocide against Uyghurs because of its use of internment camps and forced birth control and abortions. A few months later, the United States, along with the United Kingdom, Canada, and the European Union, imposed sanctions on top Chinese officials.
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Jun 23, 2023 · In 1949 the red flag was raised over the Forbidden City in Beijing, as Mao Zedong proclaimed the establishment of the People’s Republic of China. How should we characterise the mass killings of ordinary people during the following decades?
