HIS 333 Chairman Mao's China
A survey of Chinese history in the 20th century focusing on the emergence of Chinese communism and the rise of Mao Zedong to power at the helm of the Chinese Communist Party. Focus is on the conditions in early 20th-century China that led to an increased interest among Chinese intellectuals in communism, the rise of Mao within the party and his own contributions to Chinese communist ideology, the character of Chinese society while the country was under his direct control from 1949 until his death in 1976, and the emergence of a new China in his shadow.