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Unit 2E.1 - Mao's China, 1949-76
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Mao’s China
Dealing with opposition
Reunification Campaigns 1949-50
● Guangdong = GMD heartland, PLA were sent in to remove any reminisce of the
GMD to ensure opposition would not arise
● Xinjiang = Ethnically mixed, 80% muslim Uyghurs , became security buffer zone for
the PRC but also ensured no opposition would arise from differing ethnic minorities
● Tibet = Operating as independent since 1913, six months of conquest came under
communist rule in 1951, brought in large numbers of Chinese Han settlers to diminish
tibetan culture
Terror
● Labelling
➔ Danwei = work unit provided food ration cards - used the denial of
goods to enforce conformity
➔ Class labels = 60 labels divided into good, middle and bad - made it
easier for the police to prosecute the bad classes not just nationalist
sympathisers
● Crackdown on crime
➔ Police were ordered to clean up the streets by removing petty
criminals e.g beggars and prostitutes
➔ Popular among urban residents
➔ Tackled criminal gangs and triads Shanghai 150,000 criminals
arrested and over half executed
● Great Terror 1950-51
➔ Launched same time as PLA sent to North Korea = perfect excuse to
crush anyone who opposed
➔ Brutal and widespread = remove opponents and deter potential
opposition
➔ Tao Zhu claimed responsibility of killing over 45,000 alleged bandits
➔ Pressure from Luo Ruiqing led to the leader of Hubei province to
escalate killings from 220 to 45,000
➔ 1951 bottleneck in prisons
➔ 1951 extended to urban areas when military official was shot at
concert in Jinan = arrested 17,000
➔ Young activists forced to watch executions
➔ Between 700,000 - 1 Million killed
● Three and Five Antis movement 1951-52
➔ Targeting corruption waste and delay in Government and Party
➔ Mass meetings were held in which managers and officials were
denounced, if found guilty had to issue humiliating confessions
➔ Small scale embezzlement = flies Large scale embezzlement = tigers ,
1952 Bo Yibo boasted about hunting down 100,000 tigers
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