2. Overview
• Mao Zedong
• Cultural Revolution
• The Great Leap Forward
• Deng Xiaoping
• Hu Jintao
• Everyday life
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3. Mao Zedong
• First Librarian in Peking
• Member of the cofunders of
the People‘s Party of China
• Discouraged enemies by brutality
• Pushed his followers into bloodthirstiness
• Head of State in 1954
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4. Cultural Revolution
• Was the last masscampaign of Zedong
• Class conflicts were very important
• Zedong activated rebels against the conservative
community
• Whole structure should become communist
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5. The Great Leap Forward
• From 1958 until 1962
• Aim:
– to make China an economic power
– To strengthen communism
– Farmer became manpower
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6. The Great Leap Forward
• Not enough farmers for agriculture
• Catastrophe – many people died
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7. Deng Xiaoping
• Leader of the communist
party and of the People‘s
Republic of China
• After civil war, he became
General secretary
• Never head of the state
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8. Deng Xiaoping
On 19 december 1984 Xiapoing and the
British prime minister signed the Sino
British Joint Declaration which appointed
that China gets back the colony
Hongkong in 1997.
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9. Hu Jintao
• Involved in technical and
political leadership
positions
• Became president in 2003
• In 2005 he joined the
meeting of the UNO
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10. Everyday life
• Day begins at 6 o`clock with gymnastics
or jogging
• Variety of cultural events for example:
cinema, theatre, sports event and a busy
nightlife.
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11. Everyday life II
• 8000 executions a year
• Very strict censorship
• 184 million overweight people
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