The document discusses whether life improved for China's peasants after 1949 under Mao Zedong's leadership. On one hand, Mao introduced literacy campaigns, established rural clinics, and abolished backward practices. He also claimed to have freed peasants from landlords and allowed children to attend school. However, others argue that Mao collectivized all land, setting peasants against each other. Corrupt cadres ran villages poorly, resulting in a famine that killed at least 45 million Chinese peasants.
The document discusses whether life improved for China's peasants after 1949 under Mao Zedong's leadership. On one hand, Mao introduced literacy campaigns, established rural clinics, and abolished backward practices. He also claimed to have freed peasants from landlords and allowed children to attend school. However, others argue that Mao collectivized all land, setting peasants against each other. Corrupt cadres ran villages poorly, resulting in a famine that killed at least 45 million Chinese peasants.
The document discusses whether life improved for China's peasants after 1949 under Mao Zedong's leadership. On one hand, Mao introduced literacy campaigns, established rural clinics, and abolished backward practices. He also claimed to have freed peasants from landlords and allowed children to attend school. However, others argue that Mao collectivized all land, setting peasants against each other. Corrupt cadres ran villages poorly, resulting in a famine that killed at least 45 million Chinese peasants.
* Mao introduced literacy another. Wealthier peasants in a campaigns. village were attacked by poorer ones. * Rural clinics were established. * Mao collectivised all land, taking it * Backward practices like foot from the peasants. binding were abolished. * Cadres who ran the villages were * Mao claimed to have freed the often corrupt. peasants from the landlords. * The result of Mao’s policies in * Peasants were able to send their agriculture was the famine that killed children to school and university at least 45 million Chinese; mainly for the first time. peasants.