HIST 218 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hundred Flowers Campaign, Southwest China, Chinese Tunic Suit
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Chinese was used to refer to all nationalities in the prc, and justified ccp seizure of tibet and. Xinjiang: national people"s congress: 150/1200 seats reserved for minority nationalities (minzu), and 400 munzu names were registered nation-wide, minzu classification project: was not part of original prc policy. There were 56 total minzu in the end. (a) yi example: previously referred to non-han peoples in south-west, but now referred to. Led to uprisings in non-tibetan government areas which pla crushed through force. Seen as part of alternative modernity which promoted masculinization of uniformed national body, and feminization of fashion: elsewhere, more colourful fashions not connected to military attire were promoted, family planning: anti-natal policy began 1955. Mao remained chairman of ccp: mao became isolated from party decision-making, and suspected others such as liu and deng. Xiaoping as plotting against him and the communist revolution. (1) mao sought to regain control of the party through a continuous revolution.