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What impact did Mao have on the lives of Chinese people since 1949 in the following areas: economic, social and political?
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What impact did Mao have on the lives of Chinese people since 1949 in the following areas: economic, social and political? In 1949 the Communists defeated the governing Kuomintang after years of Chinese civil war. The leader of the Communists and the man who was now to become the Chairman of China was Mao Tse-Tung. Mao had been at war or on the run from the Kuomintang for over 20 years and as leader of China he announced a vision of a new and peaceful China. The Communists' aims and policy was set out in the Common Programme, written in September 1949. It said that China would be a 'Peoples Democratic Dictatorship', with 'democracy for most people but a dictatorship for reactionaries'; anybody opposed to communism was classed as a reactionary. "The People's Republic of China strives for independence, democracy, peace, unity, prosperity and the strength of China..." these were...
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