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Is Mao Zedong A Hero or A Villain?: Directions: Read The Passages Then Answer The Questions Below

Mao Zedong transformed China from a semi-colony to a modern nation, but his policies had disastrous consequences. Mao liberated China's people and expanded the economy, though his Great Leap Forward led to famine and economic ruin. Mao launched the Cultural Revolution to battle corruption, but it instead led to chaos, closed schools, and the persecution of millions labeled as having "bourgeois tendencies." While Mao's intentions were to modernize China, his rule brought about more deaths than Stalin or Hitler, with an estimated 40 million people losing their lives under his leadership.

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Is Mao Zedong A Hero or A Villain?: Directions: Read The Passages Then Answer The Questions Below

Mao Zedong transformed China from a semi-colony to a modern nation, but his policies had disastrous consequences. Mao liberated China's people and expanded the economy, though his Great Leap Forward led to famine and economic ruin. Mao launched the Cultural Revolution to battle corruption, but it instead led to chaos, closed schools, and the persecution of millions labeled as having "bourgeois tendencies." While Mao's intentions were to modernize China, his rule brought about more deaths than Stalin or Hitler, with an estimated 40 million people losing their lives under his leadership.

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Is Mao Zedong a Hero or a Villain?


Directions: Read the passages then answer the questions below.
Mao is the “sun in the sky.” He is considered the greatest leader in Chinese history. Mao freed China from its
medieval backwardness and transformed it into a modern nation. Under Mao’s leadership, China was
transformed. What had taken centuries in the West, took only decades in China. China made the leap from a
semi-colony to a Great Power.
1. Why is Mao considered the “sun in the sky” in Chinese history?
Because he was the greatest leader in Chinese history and he transformed china

Mao liberated the Chinese people from economic exploitation and social oppression. He freed China from its
Confucian past, gave women equal status in Chinese society, opened China to the west and expanded
China’s economy. China’s economy grew at an average annual rate of 11% to 15% per year, thereby creating
the industrial infrastructure that laid the basis for the economic transformation that took place during the rule
of Deng Xiaoping.
2. How did Chinese life improve under Mao?
The economy improved and it gave women and equal status. China as expanded to the west and created an industrial
infrastructure

According to Lee Feigon, author of Mao – A Reinterpretation, the Cultural Revolution transformed China for
the better. During the Cultural Revolution, Mao battled corruption, streamlined bureaucracy, strengthened
the economy, reduced and decentralized Soviet-style bureaucracy that was threatening to choke China,
promoted artistic and educational reform, and worked towards social justice and the feminist ideal.
3. How did the Cultural Revolution change China?
It got rid of corruption,streamlined bureaucracy, strengthened the economy, reduced and decentralized soviet style bureaucracy ,
promoted artistic and educational reform , and worked towards social justice and the feminist ideal

“Although urban schools closed for a time, Mao used the Cultural Revolution to dismantle elitist and
formalistic educational system that the country had returned to in the early 1960s. He shifted resources to
rural education, in the process radically expanding China’s educational system.”
- Dongping Han, “Impact of the Cultural Revolution on Rural Education and Development”
4. How did China’s educational system improve as a result of the Cultural Revolution?
It changed so that they would learn rural education and it radically expanded china's educational system
The Great Leap Forward was a failure. Rather than a leap forward, it became a lurch sideways. By 1961,
China was on the brink of economic ruin and internal collapse. As a result of the loss of fertile farmland and
poor management of what farmland remained, the annual harvest declined. The result was widespread
famine. Industrial output also fell. Even Mao himself was forced to admit that his idea was a disaster. He was
forced to step down from his post as chairman of the CCP.
5. Why was Mao forced to step down from his post as chairman of the Chinese Communist Party?
He was forced to step down because his idea was a disaster and helped collapse the Chinese economy

Mao launched the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1966. The Cultural Revolution remains a titanic
catastrophe in which human rights, democracy, the rule of law and civilization were crushed. During the decade
that followed, literally millions of people were sacked, imprisoned and otherwise ostracized for their hidden
'bourgeois tendencies,' while tens of thousands were executed. Mao encouraged students to rebel against
authority, inform on their politically incorrect seniors, and join the Red Guard – the ideological militia that
pushed the Cultural Revolution forward. China collapsed into a state of near anarchy. Schools shut down,
offices closed, transport was disrupted – it was so bad that even today, the full history is still far from known.
While the Cultural Revolution 'officially' ended in 1969, and the worst abuses stopped then, the politically
charged atmosphere was maintained until Mao's death in 1976.

6. How did the Cultural Revolution affect China?


It affected china in a terrible way millions of people lost jobs and many rules and laws that had been set and made were crushed
china collapsed into an almost anarchy

The Cultural Revolution had a disastrous effect on the educational system and the scientific community
within China; an effect that was felt well into the late 80's. Those people in China who were between the
ages of 15 to 25 during the period of the revolution are now referred to as the “lost generation.” This is
because they are the ones who lost out: losing the chance for an education, losing the chance for a normal
youth.
7. Who were the “lost generation?”
People in between the age of 15 and 25

Mao’s rule brought about more deaths of his own people than any other leader in history. The total death toll
is only exceeded by all the dead people of World War II. Some 12 to 15 million deaths can be attributed to
Stalin. The systematic elimination of the Jews under Hitler was approximately 6 million. Under Mao, over
40 million people lost their lives.
8. Was Mao’s rule more brutal than that of Stalin or Hitler? Why or why not?
No, because his intentions were to bring up the Chinese economy but Stalin and Hitler wanted to take full control and tried to
destroy whole races and did things with a pure hatred and anger

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