Mao Zedong Influence On Chinese Culture

How Chinese Culture is Shaped by Mao Zedong and the Great Leap Forward Through the passage of time, China, one of the four earliest civilizations on earth, has been through many different changes in its 5000 years of recorded history. China started out as numerous nomadic tribes who merged to become the seven small kingdoms that battled each other for the control of China, then Qin Shi Huang united China and imposed a uniform currency, scale and language. 19 dynasties followed Qin, each met with chaos and turmoil as the ruler was deemed weak and unable to meet the people’s needs until the Qing Dynasty was thrown overboard and two parties become publicized: the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Chinese Nationalist Party (GMD). Although the rich history of China definitely makes an impressive mark on the people’s culture, no period of time has made …show more content…
But before I introduce you to the impact of Chairman Mao, I will begin with how the two parties came into power. At the end of the Qing dynasty, the government was very weak and could not protect itself against outside invasions. So “by the end of the nineteenth century its self-belief had been shattered. Since the 1840s a number of Western nations, principally Britain, Germany, France and the USA, had forced the Chinese to enter into a series of `unequal treaties ' which obliged them to surrender sovereign territory and accept trade on Western terms.”(Mao Zedong: liberator or oppressor of China?) As a response to this social inequality and racial suppression, the GMD took control and encouraged Chinese youths to possess