2. Economic and social transformations and challenges under Mao (1949–1976)
Inquiry topic: Economic and social transformations and challenges under Mao (1949–1976) Mao could not immediately introduce a Communist utopia in China. The country had been ravaged by war and civil war since the Revolution of 1911 and by 1949 there was little industry, the currency was worthless, there was unemployment in the cities and famine in the countryside. Mao had to strike a balance between his aims and the...