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What major law was introduced on 28 June 1950
Agrarian Reform Law
What does fanshen mean?
do the action
to turn over
What type of government did Mao Proclaim China became in 1949?
People's Republic of China
who said "Women hold up half the sky."
Meow
Which historian described the non-Communist ministers as "window dressing"?
Jonathan Fenby (fenty/ferby)
Which campaign began in 1951 against corruption, waste and bureaucratism?
Three Antis / Sanfan
What was a People's Tribunal?
A local body that judged landlords during land reform.
Why did Mao include national capitalists in the new regime?
To keep the economy stable and use their expertise, and to know exactly who they were. To keep them close....
Who said this, "the Chinese people absolutely will not tolerate foreign aggression."
Zhou Enlai
Which historian argued the PLA belongs to the CCP rather than China itself?
Rowan Callick
What international conflict began in June 1950 that drew China into war?
The Korean War
What was danwei?
A state-controlled work unit that served as the primary social, economic, and political organisation in urban China from the 1950s through the 1980s.
It provided lifetime employment, housing, medical care, and social control for workers from "cradle to grave."
Why did the CCP encourage Speak Bitterness meetings?
To mobilise peasants against landlords and build revolutionary support/ to get the peasants to police the will of the CCP.
Who said this: "The Chinese revolution is great, but the road after the revolution will be longer."
Mao Zedong
Which historian called land reform "a pact sealed in blood between the Party and the poor"?
Frank Dikötter (I don't need to think of a funny way to say this name...)
What campaign targeted tax evasion, bribery and fraud in 1952?
Five Antis / Wufan
What was the difference between bureaucratic capitalists and national capitalists?
National capitalists supported the CCP; bureaucratic capitalists were linked to the GMD or Japanese and had property confiscated
Give two ways the CCP consolidated power after 1949.
land reform, mass campaigns, registration systems, PLA, propaganda, political structure
Who said this, "Today we're heading into the capital to take the big test."
Mao Zedong (meow)
Which historian argued that Thought Reform was intended to be educational rather than simply vindictive?
Maurice Meisner
Explain two consequences of the Korean War for the PRC
(two of the following) increased nationalism, economic costs, intensified campaigns, reliance on USSR, delayed Taiwan invasion, UN exclusion
What was chengfen?
The class-label system dividing people into good, middle and bad classes.
Explain why the People's Democratic Dictatorship was both "democratic" and a "dictatorship" according to Mao.
Democracy for revolutionary classes; dictatorship over reactionaries
who said this "We definitely have no benevolent policies towards the reactionaries."
Meow
Which historian argued that the campaign to suppress counter-revolutionaries "burned white-hot" because of the Korean War?
Philip Short