China since 1949

Very brief synopsis of the key events in China's history in the last 60 years.

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[Daredboom]

Under Mao, the average life expectancy rose from 35 to 57. Before Mao, China had only 20,000 doctors, it now had 200,000, many helped the peasants in rural areas. Mao also called for peasants to be trained by these doctors in healthcare. Over 1.3 million peasants were now trained in basic healthcare (barefoot doctors). Mao gave the land back to the peasants and for the first time, peasants ran their own workplaces.

[TheTollundWoman]

@Daredboom

Unfortunately the 'Tea party' folks are, as usual, wrong, and Barack Obama is no more of a Communist than myself, but there are days when I wish they were right, maybe if Americans had to live under a dictatorship in their *own* country, they would stop spitting in the faces of people around the world. its easy for you to defend a government or type of government you've never lived under. but stop ignoring historical fact

[TheTollundWoman]

@Daredboom

Primary sources about the Cultural Revolution: Lost in the crowd by Yang Jiang, Life in Shanghai by Nien Cheng, Wild Swans, by Jung Chang, No tears for Mao, by Niu-Niu, The courage to stand alone, by Wei Jinsheng, and Son of the Revolution by Liang Heng.

[TheTollundWoman]

@Daredboom

Any sources by people who are *from* China or who lived there during the Great Leap Forward or Cultural Revolution? Westerners making arrogant judgements about countries they've never lived in gets old after a while. No offense.

[Daredboom]

@TheTollundWoman historical fact? I just gave you some.... and actually my father lived under the DDR. So, I do have a good idea what I'm talking about.

[Daredboom]

@TheTollundWoman See C. Broyelle, Women's Liberation in China (Sussex: Harvester Press, 1977) and Elisabeth Croll, Feminism and Socialism in China (New York: Schocken, 1980). See S. Ishikawa, "China's Economic Growth Since 1949," China Quarterly, June 1983, Table 1; Raymond Lotta, "The Theory and Practice of Maoist Planning," in Raymond Lotta, ed., Maoist Economics and the Revolutionary Road to Communism (New York: Banner, 1994);

[Daredboom]

@TheTollundWoman Sources: Penny Kane, The Second Billion (New York: Penguin, 1987), chapter 5; Ruth and Victor Sidel, Serve the People: Observations on Medicine in the People's Republic of China (New York: Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, 1973), pp. 255-66.

Ruth Gamberg, Red and Expert (New York: Schocken, 1977), p. 41.William Hinton, "The Importance of Land Reform in the Reconstruction Of China," Monthly Review , July/August 1998, p. 148.

[TheTollundWoman]

@Daredboom

You have yet to cite a single source, primary or secondary, to confirm any of your claims. You are entitled to your own opinion, however odious, but you are not entitled to your own facts.

[Daredboom]

Under Mao, China's economy grew by 10% every year. Agriculture grew by 3% every year. By 1970 China's problem of starvation had been fixed. China's agriculture was rapidly mechanised, electricity & tractor use increased by 70%. Under Mao, the chinese currency was stabilised, more and more countries began to use it for calculating prices. Mao increased the number of children in education from 9 million to 67 million. Mao made women equal for the first time in China.