7th+Grade+-+SS+-+Post-Mao+Period


 * The Post-Mao Period, 1976-78**

__**China after Mao**__

The post-Mao political order began after the Eleventh National Party Congress, held August 12- 18, 1977. The congress announced the formal end of the Cultural Revolution[|[i]], blamed it entirely on the Gang of Four[|[ii]], and repeated that "the fundamental task of the party in the new period was to build China into a modern, powerful socialist country by the end of the twentieth century." Many denials still were obvious, however, in regard to the Mao’s inheritance and the possibility of future cultural revolutions. The new balance of power clearly was unsatisfactory to Deng Xiaoping[|[iii]], who sought a honest party reform and, soon after the National Party Congress, took the forcefulness to reorganize the bureaucracy and redirect policy. Educational reforms were established, and Cultural Revolution-era opinions on literature, art, and intellectuals were overturned. During the Post-Mao period of 1976-78 there was political struggle between the hard-core Mao-communist and the moderate led by Deng Xiaoping. After consolidating his power in the 80’s Deng Xiaoping began the economic and political reforms that would lead to china becoming a strong rival and superpower to the United States after the cold war.

[|[i]] The Cultural revolution- was a period in china’s history was a struggle for power within the Communist Party of China, which grew to include large sections of Chinese society and eventually brought the entire country to the brink of civil war. [|[ii]] Gang of four- was a group of Communist Party of China leaders in the People's Republic of China who were arrested and removed from their positions in 1976, following the death of Mao Zedong, and were primarily blamed for the events of the Cultural Revolution. [|[iii]] Deng Xiaoping- never held office as the head of state or the head of government, but served as the //de facto// leader of the People's Republic of China from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. He pioneered "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" and Chinese economic reform, also known as the "socialist market economy".

pic. of mao zedong pic. of deng xiaoping

got info from: countrystudies.us/china/29.htm and also most of it form my brother