Born Under the Flag
Mao Zedong had ruled China for more than a quarter of a century. During his rule in China for twenty-five years, he had failed to bring prosperity to China. Mao’s policies had brought so many catastrophes and suffering to China. In 1966, Mao had launched a Cultural Revolution, a political movement to regain credibility after the fiasco of the Great Heap Forward, a campaign launched by Mao himself to dramatically speed up economic productivity through establishing “people’s communes” and decentralizing industrial protection. A decade later in 1976, Mao died leaving China’s economy in shreds and the people of China exhaust due to more than two decades of political chaos. As China began to move away from Maoism, Hua Guofeng, Mao’s official successor, brought back Maoism by quoting, “We must obey chairman Hua like we obeyed Mao.” In 1978, Hua lost power to Deng Xiaoping and his followers. A new era had begun for China. A new chapter BORN UNDER THE FLAG was written for Chinese history. Never in Earth’s history had a nation been transformed with such speed and magnitude.Deng Xiaoping was a former Communist Party leader who had been purged twice in the Cult
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Approximate Word count = 780
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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