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The new government assumed control of a people exhausted by two generations of war and social conflict, and an economy ravaged by high inflation and disrupted transportation links. A new political and economic order modeled on the Soviet example was quickly installed.
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Designer: Yu Yunjie (俞云阶)
1953, February
Freedom of marriage, happiness and good luck
Ziyou hunyin meiman xingfu (自由婚姻美满幸福)
Publisher: Huadong renmin meishu chubanshe (华东人民美术出版社)
Size: 78x54 cm.
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Goal: rapidly increase agriculture and industry.
Created many communes and backyard factories.
Normal market mechanisms were disrupted, agricultural production fell behind, and China's people exhausted themselves producing what turned out to be shoddy, un-salable goods
Information directly from:
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/18902.htm
Image of furnaces in the backyard used to make stell- it failed miserably.
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s. Within a year, starvation appeared even in fertile agricultural areas. From 1960 to 1961, the combination of poor planning during the Great Leap Forward and bad weather resulted in one of the deadliest famines in human history.
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adopted pragmatic economic policies at odds with Mao's revolutionary vision.
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was unprecedented in communist China’s history. For the first time, a section of the Chinese communist leadership sought to rally popular opposition against another leadership group. China was set on a course of political and social anarchy that lasted the better part of a decade. taken from: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/18902.htm
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served somewhat more than five years as a soldie
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This essentially ends the cultural revolution in China.
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Leads Jin to decide never to go back to China.
Students were protesting for democracy. Troops killd many trying to disband the protesting. This hapeened elsewhere - but Tinanamen is best known.
