... role as a rogue nation of Maoist political zealots who sought total isolation from the developed nations of the international community. In the post-Mao years, China quickly became a reformist socialist society that waivered between ideology and pragmatism. That quickly led to a commitment to economic development under ... . In a very important way these goals could only be embodied in the person of the heroic leader of the Communist Party, Mao Zedong 毛澤東. We have never come to understand the combination of ability, charisma, fate and ambition that allows the 'great leader' .....

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... party, shortly after the Treaty of Versailles in 1920. The two factions held civil war for more than 20 years before the CCP won control of China under Mao Zedong. During the Rule of Mao the government enforced many policies favoring socialist and communist policies, such as: Cultural Revolution and the Five-Year Plan, in which the government tried to equalize the social ... equality and contempt against the west. During the latter half of the 20th century Deng Xiaoping emerged as the new leader of China, and instituted many policies contrasting his predecessor Mao Zedong. Deng Xiaoping...

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... my conclusions. rom the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1950 to the early 1970's, the governmental policy was one that favored a fast growing population. China's former leader, Mao Zedong, believed "that a large and impoverished population was an asset for national development" (Aird 229). Instead of focusing on the population as the source of growth, China's following leader Deng Xiaoping ... ...

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