Zhou Enlai

Revolution at the Eleventh Plenum of the Eighth Central Committee in August 1966(Lieberthal). He then ordered to shut down all of China’s schools which resulted in the formation of the Red Guards. The Red guards comprised mostly of students with a main goal to get rid of any old culture or tradition in China. They also targeted the intelligent people and elderly to beleaguer them (“Cultural Revolution”). Lin Biao was officially assigned as Mao 's successor in 1969. But because Mao starting to believe that Lin could overthrow him, he and Zhou Enlai, premier of China, turned against Lin. Lin later died in an airplane crash and then Zhou took control of the government (“China’s Cultural Revolution Begins: May 1966”). Zhou acted to settle China by resurrecting the educational system and restoring various previous authorities to control. China started to grow trade and grow a better economy and then in 1972 Mao Zedong died of a stroke and Zhou Enlai died of cancer (“Lieberthal”). Deng Xiaoping took control which then marked the end of the Cultural Revolution (“Cultural Revolution”). Shutting down the schools was a risky decision made by Mao Zedong. The policy of banning schools resulted in serious consequences of China’s educational system (“China’s Cultural Revolution begins: May 1966”). In this period, the education at high schools kept on being suspended. The students who were in junior or senior high school, towards the start of the Cultural Revolution were given…

took place after the death of Premier Zhou Enlai in 1976 that allowed Deng Xiaoping, who would eventually decide to use force against protesters in 1989, to consolidate power and move forward in the post-Mao era. Deng was able to promote other reform minded leaders in Zhao Ziyang and Hu Yaobang. However when the 1986 democratic student protest took place which, “was the largest student movement since the Tiananmen incident a decade earlier, it moved the whole nation, shook the central…

seeking ideology purity by intensified class struggle resulted in “serious setback and damaging loss to the economy” and “the purge of high party and governmental leaders and intellectuals.” 1976 was also the year that three prominent leaders of China passed away: Premier Zhou Enlai, Marshal Zhu De and Chairman Mao Zedong. Moreover, Mother Nature seemed to wage into the disastrous year with the Tangshan earthquake that almost destroyed the industrial city and the Yellow River flooded seven…

initially had some positive effects regarding the support of freedom of speech, China’s political and social circumstances were weakened as an end result. The Hundred flowers campaign encouraged Chinese citizens to exercise a freedom of speech. In early 1956, Mao began the Hundred Flowers Campaign to encourage Chinese intellectuals to voice their opinions or concerns on the CCP government. According to the website Alpha History, “Many interpreted the Hundred Flowers movement as a ‘Beijing…

Following the breaking of patriarchal tradition and the inclusion of women in the workforce under Mao’s rule, and the introduction of the “One Child Policy,” has been seen by many as a ‘westernization of China’. With the Maoist era allowing women into landownership and the ability to work outside of the home the idea of gender independence in China had seen a possible beginning; which was ended by Xi Jinping 's reign in which women began to be brought back to focusing on the homefront. This…

After the Communist Party condemned Mao’s revolution, the population did not agree with their government’s decision. So they rallied around the president at the time, President Xi Jinping. (Buckley) Xi Jinping justified his political party’s actions by claiming that a re-enactment of the Cultural Revolution might occur. Both leaders, Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, became ill around the same time. Deng Xiaoping, an army veteran, was given the lead by both men. Jiang Qing, Mao’s wife, led a group…

me very sad for all of us. Her Father BAI XI 10.Mao wishes to restore the communist life. Even some of his colleagues are supportive of the Government’s economic reforms and they are not aligned with Mao’s vision. However, they cannot go against him. He unfortunately, as you say, treats his own people very harshly. 11.In the beginning, Mao followed his goals through Red Guards, groups of young people living in cities. The Red Guards were so cruel in their actions and killed suspected…

The “four modernizations” was a policy set by Zhou Enlai to modernize China by developing mechanized agriculture, incentivizing urban industrial production, strengthening national defense, and placing a new emphasis upon science and technology. Wei Jingsheng’s famous essay Fifth Modernization: Democracy, was written in December 1978 and titled as such in direct reference to these modernizations. It was posted on the Democracy Wall in Beijing as part of the overall “New Enlightenment” movement,…

Mao was ambitious and wanted to take back all of China, which included Taiwan. Mao’s plan to take over Taiwan failed, causing damage to China itself. Mao was left in a stump as China’s leader. Mao had lost popularity amongst his people and lost their trust as well. His people questioned his leadership and he felt threatened by his people’s comments, after experiencing the Hundred Flowers Movement, the Great Leap Forward, the Sino-Soviet Split, and the failure to take control of Taiwan. Mao’s…

to assassinate Mao; that he attempted to take over leadership of the country via a military coup; and after being exposed, he decided to defect to the Soviet Union (Uhalley and Qiu 387). Yet, his death in Undur Khan, Mongolia as a result of a plane crash is shrouded under controversy and debates over a conspiracy by the Chinese government (389). Likewise, Liu was personally victimized by Mao’s regime and after contracting pneumonia in 1968; he received temporary treatment only out of necessity…