Source 5.
In order to gain understanding of the effects of the GLF, i wanted to have a look at some statistics, and this website came up http://www.digitalsurvivors.com/archives/visualizinggreatleapforward.php .
We are able to see a dip in the chart between 1959-1962, in which the starvation of millions of people went through as a result of the Great Leap Forward, we can understand that this means that Mao's aims of economic building was not met, and increasing targets were set up in short periods of time.
Also we can see a huge dip in child birth rate, in which during this period of time the peoples communes were set up and people were discouraged from the sphere of a family and a personal life. We can see a correlation between calorie intake and children death rate, in which the lower the calorie intake the higher percentage of children died.
By looking at these charts, we have proof of Mao persistently pushing his aims to high, resulting in the widespread famine and death of millions across China's rural area's. People may argue that people died under unintentional harm, and Mao was only trying to pull China out of its poverty line, people died under natural causes, i.e starvation, widespread famine, droughts...However we can relate this back to Mao, why was there a famine across China? Why where not regulated aims, and how the result of his initial aims being far from possible claimed the lives of many innocent citizens.
Thursday 10 February 2011
The start to Mao's Great Leap Forward
Soure 4.
Click Here: Great Leap Forward video source
This video demonstrates different view points and build up towards the failures of the great leap Forward.
Mao's first concern was steel, in order to catch up with Britain and the US he need to strengthen and boost the economy in order for China to be on the same page as Britain and America. However the first fault of his aims was by hoping to achieve this in a dismal 15 years, meaning rapid industrialization methods and mobilize the masses to work day and night.
In order to mobilize the masses Mao used a large form of propaganda to bring the enthusiasm to China, and to encourage the nation by working harder they will create a better future. This source is also useful by bringing witnesses of the time of the GLF and real experiences, which is useful in understanding people's experiences rather than bits of text.
We see that Mao is able to achieve his aims of increading the production line and mobilising the masses, the start of the GLF seemed to be positive and a new start to a new China.
Click Here: Great Leap Forward video source
This video demonstrates different view points and build up towards the failures of the great leap Forward.
Mao's first concern was steel, in order to catch up with Britain and the US he need to strengthen and boost the economy in order for China to be on the same page as Britain and America. However the first fault of his aims was by hoping to achieve this in a dismal 15 years, meaning rapid industrialization methods and mobilize the masses to work day and night.
In order to mobilize the masses Mao used a large form of propaganda to bring the enthusiasm to China, and to encourage the nation by working harder they will create a better future. This source is also useful by bringing witnesses of the time of the GLF and real experiences, which is useful in understanding people's experiences rather than bits of text.
We see that Mao is able to achieve his aims of increading the production line and mobilising the masses, the start of the GLF seemed to be positive and a new start to a new China.
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