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Griffin Spriggs

Mr. Powers

AP World History

08 March 2016

hina !"#

$he hinese o%%&nist Parry soon ca%e into power after chasing off the '&o%indang

and its anti(co%%&nist policies into $aiwan) with the growth of the party*s power+ the peasant

class e,perienced %a-or infl&ence. "etween circa 12/ and circa 1/0+ relations etween

hinese peasants and the hinese o%%&nist Party eca%e %ore close nit as %ore peasants

 -oined the co%%&nist ar%y+ oth shared apan as a co%%on ene%y and wanted to ring social

and econo%ic e3&ality to the hinese lower class.

4n 125+ o%%&nist leader Mao edong called for the entirety of the peasant pop&lation

to rise &p and s&-&gate the wealthy landowning class 7!oc 1. Many of the hinese yo&th ga9e

s&pport and e9en -oined the rans of the hinese :ed Ar%y d&ring 1;6. 7!oc. 2

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 peasants into wanting to -oin the o%%&nists in fighting apan. 4n the sa%e year+ the entral

o%%ittee+ for the co%%&nists iss&ed a state%ent to local party leaders infor%ing the% that

their d&ty is to aid the peasants in fighting apan and ine3&ality. 7!oc / Again+ the war with

apan is &sed to dri9e &p %ore co%%&nist s&pport since the apanese want to tae o9er the

hinese people+ Willia% Hinton of the >.S. reported in 1=8 that y the peasants and

co%%&nists -oining in order to fight apan that now the peasants also feel %oti9ated to attac the

wealthy+ which follows the co%%&nist agenda. 7!oc 6.

:elations etween the peasants and co%%&nists were f&rther strengthened y co%%&nist

 plans to ring social and econo%ic e3&ality to the peasantry. 4n 1/0+ shortly after the

o%%&nists officially control hina+ %any laws are passed incl&ding the %arriage law which

allows freedo% to %arry anyone+ a law that helps e9eryone. 7!oc. 5 Another law passed in 1/0

was the Agrarian :efor% ?aw which re9oed all property fro% the wealthy class and

redistri&ted it a%ongst the peasantry. 7!oc. 8 Again+ in 1/0+ str&ggle %eetings were held y

co%%&nists where peasants co&ld p&licly h&%iliate their for%er landlords. 7!oc. "y passing

all these widely pop&lar laws as soon as they got in power+ o%%&nist hina ens&red itself wide

s&pport in any other actions they tae later on.

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Howe9er+ to f&rther strengthen this arg&%ent+ a doc&%ent containing the 9iewpoint fro% a

s&pporter of hang 'ai She and nationalist hina wo&ld ha9e pro9ided a roader insight into

hina at the ti%e+ since the nationalists were fighting the o%%&nists.