Mao Zedong Hundred Flowers Movement Analysis

Introduction China in the early 1900s was living under an unstable economy due to poverty and a weak government. China was ruled by warlords and landlords, they took whatever was needed to help themselves. When the people of a nation are unhappily ruled by a dominant force, without aid from foreign allies, they will most likely become influenced by the ideas communism. China developed the Chinese Communist Party, in 1921, to unify the nation to stop poverty and become an independent country. China was divided by sectionalism, the Peoples Republic of China (Guomindang) and The Chinese Communist Party of China. The Peoples Republic of China was led by Chiang Kai Shek, a Nationalist leader whose goal is to have a fascist china. The Chinese …show more content…
This confidence was the beginning of his fall as china’s communist leader. In 1956, Mao created a mass movement called the Hundred Flowers Movement. The Hundred Flowers Movement was created to able freedom of speech to the Chinese people. They were given the right to speak of anything, even criticism, and would not be punished for it. The people of china were first skeptical about the Thousand Flowers Movement, but as one began to make comments, many followed. The people of china were using the thousand flowers movement to express themselves and their view of the leader, Mao. They mainly used the Hundred Flowers Movement to criticize Mao, said that he was a “poison fruit”. Mao did not take the comment as advice but as offence to him as the Chinese people’s …show more content…
Agricultural advice were too given to the people in the communes by Mao and the agriculture made Mao’s person a complete failure. Mao became hated by his people because of the failure of agriculture and the method of farming given to them. The method of farming told to the people in the communes by Mao’s missionaries, was to farm in a different season than before and the method to put a lot of seeds in one hole in the soil. Due to the change in season of planting, the weather affected the growth and production of agriculture. The people were getting either too much rain or no rain at all. With too much rain the plants get drowned in water and without rain the plants became dry and shriveled, decreasing the quality and quantity of agricultural goods. As said before that the industrialization effected china in the long run, it first affected china’s agriculture. Due to industrialization the farmers barely have tools to farm their land, because the tools are made of metal and all the metal were used for the steel production. Industrialization also cause unfertilized soils in the farm land. By cutting down trees to make charcoal to melt the metal, it caused the soil in the ground to become infertile. Due to the bad soil, the quality and quantity of the agricultural goods were not good. Mao also demanded a record harvest, having high demands thinking that the methods he gave to his people are working, but