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Section II (National Study): China 1927-1949
Quick questions on The Yan'an period and Communist mass mobilisation 1937-1947: HSC Modern History National Study China
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What are the wartime base areas?Show answer
The Shaan-Gan-Ning Border Region (Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia, around 90,000 square kilometres, 1.5 million people) was the CCP capital base. Behind Japanese lines the Eighth Route Army (Lin Biao, He Long, Liu Bocheng) created the Shanxi-Chahar-Hebei Border Region (Jin-Cha-Ji) by January 1938; further bases followed in Shanxi-Suiyuan, Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan, and across north China.
What are mass Line politics?Show answer
Mao's "Some Questions Concerning Methods of Leadership" (June 1943) codified the Mass Line: "From the masses, to the masses. To take ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own."
What is the Three-Thirds system?Show answer
The October 1940 directive on the "Three-Thirds system" required base-area government bodies to be one-third CCP, one-third non-CCP "progressives" (left-leaning peasants and intellectuals), and one-third "enlightened gentry" (landlords and businessmen willing to cooperate). The system extended the United Front into local government and reassured non-Communist Chinese.
What is the Rectification Movement (Zhengfeng) 1942-1944?Show answer
The Rectification Movement was both an ideological campaign and a factional purge.
What is q1?Show answer
Source A is an extract from Mao's Yan'an Talks on Literature and Art (May 1942). Using Source A and your own knowledge, explain the role of Yan'an in CCP development. [5 marks]
What is q2?Show answer
Evaluate the extent to which the Yan'an period explains the CCP victory in 1949. [25 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Compare the views of Mark Selden and Chen Yung-fa on the Yan'an experience. [10 marks]
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