Mao Zedong gained the support of Chinese masses during the second Sini-Japanese war and the civil war by being kind to the peasants, uniting them against the Japanese. After that, he tried to turn china into a socialist country which meant that everyone became equal. However, the socialist idea failed but Mao Zedong was unwilling to abandon his idea.
When Mao Zedong died in 1976, china became a capitalist country under the leadership of Deng Xiaoping.
Personally, I feel that the history if China is very interesting. It started from dynastic rule, to republic rule, to socialist rule and lastly, capitalist. It is surprising how different people with different ideas stood up and tried to rule the countries without their own, very different methods.
Yi Leo
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