Mao's consolidation of Power (07/02/24)

• Resist America, Aid Korea 1950 - 51

  • targets foreigners and Americans
  • Missionaries are arrested
  • Instituions with Western links come under suspicon
  • Soviets are allowed to remain
• Suppression of Counter-Revoloutionaries Campaign, 1950 -51

  • anyone with links to GMD, religous sects or bandits
  • Public executions
  • Guandong executes 28,332 in less than a year
• Bandits = those in criminal gangs
• Three Antis, 1950 - 51

  • targets corruption, waste and bureocracy
  • investigations and public humiliations
  • self - critisms
  • erases corrupt practices of Chinese business
• Five - Antis, January 1952

  • directed to the bourgeoise
  • workers organisations are recruited by party to investigate their employees business affairs
  • 300 mass meetings for convictions in Shanghai
  • Confiscation of property and labour camps
• Thought Reform Campaign, 51 -52

  • Mao is suspicous of intellectuals and regain control of modernised Western education
  • September begins forced adoption of Mao Zedong thought
  • Professors at universities are forced to confess in front of students, attend study sessions and make self critisims