Propaganda
What was Mao's approved nickname?
The Great Helmsman
How many wives did Mao have?
Four
How many class distinctions were there in rural China?
Five
What were the Laogi?
Prison/Labour Camps
What area of China had almost no Communist penetration before 1949?
The South
How was most propaganda disseminated?
Loud speaker
What did Mao famously call imperialism?
A paper tiger
By 1953, what percentage of the Chinese economy remained capitalist?
37% (35-40%)
What was the term for a public self-criticism?
Struggle session
Officially, how many landlords were in China?
100,000
What river did Mao swim across to prove his virility?
Yangtse
Name two of the three unilateral decisions that Mao took from 1949 to 1956
Collectivisation, Korea, 100 Flowers
Approximately what percentage of China's population attended an academic high school?
1.3% (1-2%)
The hukou system restricted the population's ability to do what?
Move
Mao called Liang Shuming a heap of what?
Stinking Bones
Model towns were described as what....
Potemkin Villages
Who was Mao's deputy?
Liu Shaoqi
What term was given to the mandatory sharing of equipment in rural China?
Mutual-Aid teams
How long did the 100 Flowers Campaign run before the crackdown started?
Five Weeks
The criticisms by which prominent intellectual launched a nationwide witchhunt in 1955?
Hu Feng
What was the most popular propaganda film and song in the 1950s
The East is Red
Mao's first essay as leader was 'Oppose _____ worship'
Book
Who was Tarcisio Maritina?
A Cahtolic Bishop accused of plotting to murder Mao
What were the three anti's?
Corruption, Sloth and Bureaucraticism
Which general disliked Mao, but his record in the Civil War and Korea made him impossible to dismiss?
Peng Dehuai