China falls to communism

The CCP & its struggle for survival (1921-1936)
Founded 1921: Ch'en Tu-Hsiu
Peasant Movements 1925-27
Decimation of CCP- Shanghai Massacre

Differences with Soviet Communism
Heavy emphasis on the masses
Approach to changing gov't
Mao's parable and the cult of Mao

During the Pacific War (1931-1945)
United Front (1936)
	-Zhou Enlai
Against Japan (1937-45)
	-communists are more successful
Period of Truce (1945-46)

Chinese Civil War (1946-1949)
The struggle for Manchuria (1946-48)
CCP victory 1949: People's Republic of China
Nationalists escape to Taiwan: Republic of China

The People's Republic of China
Political reform
Land reform
Thought reform

Conflict and Chaos
Surrounded by hostile forces
Great Leap Forward (1958-60)
Challenges from within the CCP
Sino-Soviet split (1960)

Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-69)
	"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"
Attack on CCP by Mao and Lin Biao
Red Guards and the cult of Mao
	- "Little Red Books"
The end of Lin Biao

Communist China since 1970
Brezhnev Doctrine, clash with USSR
Nixon opens relations
Mao dies 1976
The Gang of Four
	-Jiang Qing & advisors

After Mao 	"What does it matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice?"
Return of Deng Xiaoping (1977)
Tiananmen Square Massacre (1989)