Week+27


 * TOPIC(S) || **The Great Leap Forward and the Split in the Yan'an Leadership, 1958-1965** ||
 * || * Discussion on the Second Five-Year Plan or "Great Leap Forward", its origins, development and consequences
 * Why was there a split in the Yan'an leadership?
 * || * Discussion on the Second Five-Year Plan or "Great Leap Forward", its origins, development and consequences
 * Why was there a split in the Yan'an leadership?

Click on the image to go to a Slideshare presentation on the GLP: ||
 * ASSESSMENT || CHOOSE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING ESSAY TITLES:
 * To what extent did the 1950s witness the transition between a systematic socialist industrialization and the socialist transformation of private ownership of the means of production?
 * Assess the impact of China's internal policies on international affairs during the 1950s.
 * Assess the leadership of Mao Zedong within the CCP between 1958 and 1966.

Wordcount at this stage: approx. 1000 words in 45 minutes ||
 * HOMEWORK || Read "The Chinese State in Crisis, 1966-1969"

Questions:


 * 1) How come did the GLF give somewhat birth to the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution?
 * 2) Why does Roderick Macfarquhar call the Cultural Revolution "Mao's Last Revolution"?
 * 3) How did the split in the Yan'an government give way to the Cultural Revolution?
 * 4) What role did the masses play in this period, more than in any other?
 * 5) Why was there an emphasis on China's youth?
 * 6) What sort of oppression existed in this period of Chinese history?
 * 7) How would you explain the origins of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution? ||
 * RESOURCES || **Key terms**:


 * The "Anti-Rightist" Campaign
 * The "Three Evils"
 * The "Five Evils"
 * Lu Shan Conference of 1959
 * //Speak Bitterness// Campaigns
 * Communes
 * "Backyard production"
 * Steel furnaces
 * People's Liberation Army
 * "Nine Polemics"
 * //Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong// or the //Little Red Book//


 * Key figures**: Mao Zedong, Liu Shaoqi, Deng Xiaoping, Zhou Enlai, Peng Dehuai, Lin Biao and Jiang Qing.


 * THE GREAT LEAP FORWARD**

Photojournalism on the Great Leap Forward. LIFE Magazine visits China in 1958-1959. (A classic!)

Here's a link to a brief explanation of the Great Leap Forward

A website full of colourful propaganda posters of the Great Leap Forward

Clips about the GLF: media type="youtube" key="kdCgIHgu-KE" width="420" height="315"

An American perspective on the GLF (1958): media type="youtube" key="lkOrfR5UbdU" width="420" height="315"

The Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine

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 * THE GREAT FAMINE OF 1961**

An interview with Frank Dikötter, author of //Mao's Great Famine//

China's Agricultural Crisis and Famine of 1959–1961: A Survey and Comparison to Soviet Famines (Palgrave Journals)

The Institutional Causes of Mao's Great Famine (Yale University)

Frank Dikötter talks about his book:

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Part 2

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A link to the book, on Google Books

**HERE'S THE PPT ABOUT THE GLF AND THE SPLIT IN THE YAN'AN LEADERSHIP, part 1 (I removed the National Anthem slide; it made the file too heavy to upload)** **Here's the second part of the reading:** ||
 * CROSS-CURRICULAR LINKS || How can the impact of a major famine be assessed in History? ||