China Under Mao Zedong - to What Extent Did the New Society Bring Improvement in the Conditions of Everyday Life ?

To what extent did the new society bring imporvement in the conditions

of everyday life ?

In 1949 Mao Zedong led the communist party to a historical victory over arched nemesis Chiang Kai-Shek's ''Kuomintang'', through his strategic guerrilla warfare he specialized in. Mao's government inherited a degenerating country, and a destabilizing economy at its nadir, and consequently implemented changes that did improve the life of the Chinese people quite substantially, they did this by, implementing price controls so wages stayed in line with the basic cost of living, and reforming taxes and making them more equitable, thus increasing revenue for the government by double, as well as nationalizing China's assets and industries from foreign powers. After the economy was stabilized, Mao made new laws which greatly revolutionized the life of females in China via the ''equal woman's right law, and allowing woman to divorce their husbands, along with the end to arranged child marriages'' this new law was greatly accepted and approbated by ALL FEMALES, as the importance of females in the past was equivalent to dirt.

As China entered a relatively small period of peace, and positive reconstruction which was seen for the better good, a very tumultuous and harsh time was encroaching, this is due to Mao's inability to understand economics, and his poet like approach to politics, accompanied with countless imprudent decisions influenced by his euphoria and anger, this consequently destroyed and killed the lives of millions of people, and resulted in famines, and suicides, and a chaotic anarchically paranoid type society, in which Mao was the fundamental cause for this tumultuary. Mao built the Communist Revolution on violence and the idea that he wanted to build a modern superpower on the backs of peasants and Chinese workers. He used state terror and intrigue to expand his power and build a cult around himself that made him a totalitarian type ruler, that many historians claim he was the equivalent to Hitler, or Stalin.

This is illustrated via the, the anti-campaigns, like the rectification movement, it subjected intellectuals to be focused upon to eradicate their bourgeois attitude, this imposed by the government caused great chaos for the ''intellectual'' class as many were publicly humiliated and sent to the country side for hard labor and to be re-molded, this was a very difficult time for many intellectuals, illustrated by the very salient increase of suicides from intellectualists, it also lagged China from its national efficiency as most of its intellectuals were doing ''hard-labor'' and not aiding China in its advancements

Mao implemented more policies and campaigns that were detrimental to millions, like the three antis, which amalgamated with the five antis, this campaign first seemed like the correct thing to do, but it soon became chaotic as it encouraged spying and reporting people, even people with great propinquity towards you. This caused a sense of fear paranoia and amongst people, everyone was petrified because at any moment you can be accused of committing one of the ''antis'' regardless of your innocence, basically nobody was safe, and these repercussions resulted in public trials or ''struggle sessions'' in which the masses harangued individuals with invective polemics for hours, accompanied by fierce violence until they receive a satisfactory confession or remorse. Losing face was too much for many Chinese citizens, and they resulted to committing suicide to escape the humiliating and demoralizing public trials, it wasn't an oddity to see