The PRC’s First Four Decades © Howard R. Spendelow Georgetown University \ draft as of 06 Mar 2019 PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 http://iisg.nl/~landsberger/hgf4.html 20080820 title

Nien Cheng / Zheng Nian (28 Jan 1915 – 02 Nov 2009) PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 Nien Cheng / Zheng Nian (28 Jan 1915 – 02 Nov 2009)

Tsien Hsue-shen / Qian Xuesen 錢學森 (1911-2009) PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 1) Hsue-Shen Tsien Confers with Lawyer Original caption: 11/16/1950- Los Angeles, CA- Dr. Hsue-Shen Tsien (left), Director of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Center, confers with his lawyer, Grant B. Cooper, during his deportation hearing. The Government is charging that Dr. Tsien was a Communist when he entered the United States in 1935. He was arrested last September after a large shipment of technical matter was seized by immigration officials. http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/U955289ACME.html; 2) http://www.iisg.nl/landsberger/images/mods08a.jpg Tsien Hsue-shen / Qian Xuesen 錢學森 (1911-2009)

Resist America, Assist Korea (1952) PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 http://iisg.nl/~landsberger/ff-nk.html Resist America, Assist Korea (1952)

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Away with All Pests (1956, 1960) PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 http://iisg.nl/~landsberger/sih.html Away with All Pests (1956, 1960)

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Great Leap Forward PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 http://iisg.nl/~landsberger/glf.html Great Leap Forward

GLF: industry and agriculture together PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 http://www.iisg.nl/landsberger/images/glf10.jpg GLF: industry and agriculture together

Long Live the General Line, GLF, People’s Communes PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 http://www.chineseposters.net/posters/e13-985.php Long Live the General Line, GLF, People’s Communes

“Study Comrade Lei Feng” PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 http://www.iisg.nl/landsberger/images/lf02.jpg; http://www.iisg.nl/landsberger/images/lf09.jpg; http://www.iisg.nl/landsberger/images/lf03.jpg “Study Comrade Lei Feng”

PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 https://shanghai.ist/2019/03/06/kfc-opens-lei-feng-spirit-themed-restaurant-in-changsha-to-honor-communist-hero/?fbclid=IwAR1N3rV_SJ7jCVNOHsbcDyulo39gKdRMTib2AJCo0DUTsdFv6CgBnVyRXXs KFC opens a “Lei Feng” theme restaurant in his hometown of Chengdu (2019)

“Rustification” (xiafang 下放) (Dec 1970) PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 http://chineseposters.net/images/e16-331.jpg “Rustification” (xiafang 下放) (Dec 1970)

Out with Liu Shaoqi… PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 http://chineseposters.net/images/g02-023.jpg Out with Liu Shaoqi…

PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 http://www.chinatoday.com.cn/ctenglish/se/download/site127/20101104/002564bbb1ef0e3c64011e.jpeg http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_eztJJHg57uM/Sr-T4WXiWOI/AAAAAAAABew/rJnMmpXNODM/s400/wang+guangmei.jpg Wang Guangmei (1921-2006), with Sukarno in 1963 and the Red Guards in April 1967

Down with the Gang of Four PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 http://www.iisg.nl/landsberger/images/g403.jpg; http://www.iisg.nl/landsberger/images/g4.jpg Down with the Gang of Four

Global outreach of Maoism (1968) PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 http://chineseposters.net/images/e16-339.jpg Global outreach of Maoism (1968)

Abundance / surplus (yu = 魚 / 餘)—GLF ideal PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 http://chineseposters.net/images/e13-353.jpg; Dong Zhengyi - 董正义 1973 The commune's fishpond Gongshe yutang Abundance / surplus (yu = 魚 / 餘)—GLF ideal

21st century reality PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/dead-pigs-rivers-blood-shocking-photos-water-pollution-china-1459222; A worker clears dead fish from a lake in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province, on 11 July, 2007. More than 50,000 kilograms (110,000 pounds) of fish died due to pollution and hot weather.Reuters; A dead fish floats in water filled with blue-green algae at the East Lake in Wuhan, Hubei province, on 20 August, 2012.Reuters; Workers collect dead fish at a park in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, on 5 November, 2013. More than 10,000 fish were found dead in a smelly lake, near a drain where sewage flowed into it.Reuters; 21st century reality

Hua Guofeng (upper left) “resting” PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 From Bruce Dickson’s “Nuts & Bolts” presentation Hua Guofeng (upper left) “resting”

PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 From Bruce Dickson’s “Nuts & Bolts” presentation / cartoon by Gavin Coates title

PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 劇終 (the end)

Monuments to Mao PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 http://www.chinafile.com/sites/default/files/styles/scale620xany/public/20856_2_2.png?itok=sEep345j Monuments to Mao

Mao statues PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 http://www.chinafile.com/sites/default/files/styles/scale620xany/public/20856_1_2.png?itok=AnK8VYUy Mao statues

Mao by “the numbers” PRC: 1949-1979 18 April 2019 http://www.chinafile.com/sites/default/files/20856_3_5.png Mao by “the numbers”

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