Activity 1 - What was our inquiry?

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Activity Tasks

1. ​Mind-Map - Create a concept-map using Padlet, Mindmup or any other similar mind-mapping tool (or create a sketchnote by hand!) to unpack and brainstorm the statement of inquiry for this unit: "Revolutionary changes to economic systems can have drastic impacts on natural and human landscapes and resources"
2. Discuss - With a partner, discuss how this statement of inquiry could be applied to Mao’s China between 1949-1966. Do any historical events from the time show how the statement of inquiry is true? Or is it inaccurate?

Activity 2 - What concepts did we study?

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Activity Tasks

1. Concepts - Make sure you include the following concepts for this unit as sub-headings for your mind-map:
   1. ​Key Concept - Change
   2. Related Concepts - Innovation and Revolution
   3. Global Context - Orientation in Time and Space
2. Define - For each concept/global context, try to research and formulate your own definitions.
3. Link - Link connected concepts/ideas with arrows.
4. Discuss - As a class, discuss how each of the concepts could be related to events you have studied in this unit.

Activity 3 - Which events are significant?

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Activity Tasks
Now fill in your mind-map with key historical information and facts about the main events of the unit. Be sure to include:

• First Five-Year Plan - aims of the Plan, industrial changes, agricultural changes, successes/failures
• The Great Leap Forward - aims of the Plan, industrial and agricultural changes, social changes, successes and failures
• The Great Chinese Famine - causes, what happened, impact on China, Lushan Conference, blame
• Recovery after the GLF - 7,000 Cadre Conference, economic reforms by moderates, key details
• The Third Five-Year Plan - aims of the Plan, industrial changes, agricultural changes, successes/failures
• Political divisions over economics - Mao's vision for the economy, Maoist ideology, moderate State planners, Socialist Education Movement, key moderate and radical political leaders

Activity 4 - Was the economy a success?

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Activity Tasks

1. Review -  Complete this review worksheet to summarise your notes for this unit. Note down key facts and evidence.
2. Create - How successful was the socialist economy under Mao? Using your review notes and concept maps, create an infographic illustrating both the successes and failures of Mao's economic policies. 
3. ​Essay Plan - Try practicing for your end of unit review by essay planning previous questions on this topic. Use this essay mark-scheme to help:
   1. ​"By 1961 the Chinese people's hopes for a more prosperous and a fairer China had not been realised." To what extent do you agree with this statement? - Nov 2016 
   2. ​Examine the achievements and failures of Mao Zedong's leadership between 1949 and 1976 - May 2016
   3. To what extent did Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) achieve his vision of a socialist state in China by 1961? - May 2014
   4. Evaluate the successes and failures of Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) and the Communist Party in their social and economic policies between 1949 and 1961 - Nov 2013
   5. “Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) was disappointingly inconsistent as a nation builder.” Is this a fair appraisal of Mao’s leadership between 1949 and 1976? - May 2012
   6. How successful were Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in creating a socialist state in the period 1949 to 1961? - Nov 2011
   7. ​‘An absolute monster or a great visionary – or both.’ Discuss this assessment of Mao Zedong in the period from 1949 until his death in 1976.’ - May 2010
   8. 'With reference to other Chinese leaders of the period, to what extent, if any, has the role of Mao Zedong (Mao Tse-tung) in China’s development between 1949 and 1976 been overestimated?' - May 2009
   9. “Ten years of communist rule between 1949 and 1959 had transformed China into a major power.” To what extent do you agree with this statement? - May 2008
   10. ​​Why did the Great Leap Forward (1958) fail to achieve Mao Zedong's (Mao Tse-tung's) expectations? - May 2005

Further Reading for Revision

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obligatory reading

1. Lynch, M. (2016). Access to History: China 1839-1997, pp. 163-177
2. Roberts, J.A.G. (1999). A History of China, pp. 261-278

recommended reading

1. Fenby, J. (2008). Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, pp. 376-439
2. Spence, J.D. (1990). The Search for Modern China, pp. 541-550, 574-601

supplementary reading

1. Weatherly, R. (2006). Politics in China since 1949: Legitimising Authoritarian Rule, pp. 41-57

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