Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong

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• Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong
• Supreme Directives

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• Chairman Mao is the red sun in our hearts

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Mao Zedong

• Domestic Policy
• Establishing the New Order

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Initial Challenges

• Threat of invasion
• Counter revolution
• Previous 100 years of conflict
• No governmental structure

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Controlling the Provinces

• First objective to restore strong central control
• Local flexibility and initiative within a
  framework of central guidance
• In 1949 group the provinces into large regions
• In 1954 these regions were replaced by the
  provinces
• Large regions were re-introduced in 1961,
  provinces re-introduced 1968

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Controlling the Provinces

• Relationship between central authority and the
  regions problematic
• Purges of local leaders frequent
• Central leadership dependent on loyalty of local
  leadership

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Rectification campaigns

• Campaign against foreigners
• Campaign against counter-revolutionaries
• Three Anti Campaign
• Five Anti Campaign

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Controlling the Military

• PLA flag, 1 August 1927

• political power grows out of the barrel of a
  gun
• Army and the party indistinguishable
• Army was renamed the PLA
• The military maintained interaction with the
  party

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Party-Army Relations

• Debate between Mao and Peng Dehuai
• Peng wanted the army to be apolitical
• Mao insisted the army should remain political
• An army that is cherished and respected by the
  people, and vice versa, is a nearly invincible
  force. The army and the people must unite on the
  grounds of basic respect.
• Pengs downfall 1959

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Lin Biao

• Lin Biao replaced Peng as Minister of Defence
• Followed Maos line
• Mao did not retain operational control over the
  military
• The military remained a significant power