PRC as Revolutionary State

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PRC as Revolutionary State
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Campaigns

• 1950-52 Collectivization
• 1951 Destroying Enemies of the PRC
• 1957 100 Flowers Movement
• 1957 Anti-Rightist Campaign

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Great Leap Forward 1958-63

• Back Yard Blast Furnaces

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GLF Results

• 1990 Age Cohort
• From International Institute for Applied Systems
  Analysis http//www.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/China
  Food/data/pop/p_23c_m.htm

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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 1966-76

• 1. Liu Shaoqi

• 2. The Four Olds
• Old thought
• Old culture
• Old customs
• Old habits

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Destroying the Four Olds
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3. A New Revolution Red Guards
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Factionalism

• 2 Lin Biao Zhou Enlai Jiang Qing

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The End of the Era 1976

• Zhou 1/6/76 Mao 9/9/76

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Factional Battles for Succession

• Hua Guofeng Deng Xiaoping
• Maos Choice Pragmatic Faction

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• Hardliners Gang of Four 1980

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New Leader Deng Xiaoping

• In the US February 1979