Korean-War-era anti-American poster China and the United States faced off against one another in the Korean War (1950-1953).The People’s Republic of China was barely established (October 1, 1949) when it perceived a threat from the United States, which was at war in North Korea, and elected to support its neighbor, the new communist state, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The Chinese People’s Volunteer Army invaded the Korean Peninsula in October 1950 and, along with its North Korean ally, enjoyed initial military success and then a two-year stalemate, which culminated in an armistice signed on July 27, 1953.
In 1950, not long after the declaration of the People’s Republic, China began aiding North Korea. In October 1950, sensing a threat to the industrial heartland in northeast China from the advancing United Nations (UN) forces in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea), hundreds of thousands of Chinese PLA troops — calling themselves the Chinese People’s Volunteers — crossed the Yalu Jiang River into North Korea in response to a North Korean request for aid and fought American soldiers. Almost simultaneously the PLA forces also marched into Tibet to reassert Chinese sovereignty over a region that had been in effect independent of Chinese rule since the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911. Worried about Chinese expansion, the United States sent the Seventh Fleet into the South China Sea to protect Taiwan.
In the early 1950s “China’s large population and the breakout of Korean War caused food shortages. This led to about 100, 000 retired service people and hundreds of thousands of young people answering the call by the Chinese government to resettle in the wild lands of northern China in Heilongjiang province, a vast expanse of land, which was sparely inhabited when the Korean War had just begun.
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More than half a million young men and women, including demobilized army officers and solders and high school graduates marched into this great wilderness, on the border of Korea. They cultivated farmland and followed their own aspirations to serve emerging New China and solve food shortages at the time.
Websites: Communist Party History Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; Illustrated History of Communist Party china.org.cn ; Books and Posters Landsberger Communist China Posters ; Everyday Life in Maoist China.org everydaylifeinmaoistchina.org; Mao Zedong Wikipedia article Wikipedia ; Mao Internet Library marx2mao.com ; Paul Noll Mao site paulnoll.com/China/Mao ; Mao Quotations art-bin.com; Marxist.org marxists.org ; New York Times topics.nytimes.com; Early 20th Century China : John Fairbank Memorial Chinese History Virtual Library cnd.org/fairbank offers links to sites related to modern Chinese history (Qing, Republic, PRC) and has good pictures; Books: Cambridge History of China multiple volumes (Cambridge University Press); China: A New History by John K. Fairbank; In Search of Modern China by Jonathan D. Spence; “China in the 21st Century” by Jeffrey Wasserstrom; “Penguin History of Modern China: 1850-2009” by Jonathan Fenby; Mao; the Untold Story by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday (Knopf. 2005). Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans. There is also a Mao biography by Jonathon Spence. Also check out Mao's New World: Political Culture in the Early People's Republic by Chang-tai Hung (Cornell University Press, 2011) and The Private Life of Chairman Mao by Dr. Li Zhisui (1994). China Witness, Voices from a Silent Generation by Xinran (Pantheon Books, 2009) is collection of oral histories from Chinese who survived the Mao period.
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To the Chinese the Korean war, which began when North Korea invaded across the 38th parallel, is The War Against American Aggression and To Defend Korea. Across the border in the North it is the War of Fatherland Liberation, which started with earlier incursions by Southern troops, instigated by American imperialists. [Source: Tania Branigan, The Guardia, June 25, 2010]
Tania Branigan write in The Guardian: Today Just a few arches of the bridge that once straddled the Yalu river, linking north-eastern China’s Dandong to neighboring North Korea, remain as a stark and deliberate reminder of the US raids. “That’s still the evidence to show it was an evil war — it was imperialism if it was not a war of invasion, why did they bomb our bridge?” a Chinese veteran told The Guardian. [Source: Tania Branigan, The Guardian June 25, 2010 ==]
With cold war tensions running high, escalation was perhaps inevitable once North Korean troops crossed the line in 1950: both the US and China believed they had to check the other’s power. Beijing warned it would intervene if US-dominated UN forces pushed back past the 38th parallel, towards China. “At the time we had a saying about our relations with North Korea: 'If the lips are gone the teeth will feel the cold, '” said Wang Xinshan, another veteran of the conflict. ==
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By 1952 Chinese soldiers outnumbered their allies by three to one; hundreds of thousands are thought to have died in the conflict. The repercussions are still playing out in the region. The war cemented an alliance that sustains Pyongyang in the face of widespread vilification, and created a powerful emotional bond. “Most Chinese have been immersed in an almost morbidly sentimental connection with the North, ” said Zhu Feng, professor of international relations at Peking University. For veterans, those links are particularly potent. “I didn't cry when my parents died but when I think of those who died in the war my tears roll down, ” said Xiang, recalling his comrades. ==
Anti-American sentiments stirred up by the Korean War helped Mao pursue his radical agenda. Up until the mid-1990s, Chinese middle school textbooks described the Korean War as China’s War to Resist America and Support Korea. The textbooks described how American Imperialists organized so-called United Nations forces to invade North Korea and then used the Seventh Fleet to prevent reunification of Taiwan with the mainland.
An article in July, 1997 in the Chinese Communist Party magazine Hundred Year Tide abandoned the 40-year claim that South Korea invaded North Korea and admitted that opposite was true and then went on to say that Stalin was the mastermind behind the war, Kim Il Sung was a naive radical who boasted the North would win in two weeks and Mao went along.”
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Mao and Stalin in 1950 After the establishment of the People’s Republic in 1949, China reorganized its science establishment along Soviet lines — a system that remained in force until the late 1970s, when China’s leaders called for major reforms. The Soviet model is characterized by a bureaucratic rather than a professional principle of organization, the separation of research from production, the establishment of a set of specialized research institutes, and a high priority on applied science and technology, which includes military technology. [Source: Library of Congress *]
“Under the Soviet bureaucratic model, leadership was in the hands of nonscientists, who assign research tasks in accordance with a centrally determined plan. The administrators, not the scientists, controlled recruitment and personnel mobility. The primary rewards were administratively controlled salary increases, bonuses, and prizes. Individual scientists, seen as skilled workers and as employees of their institutions, were expected to work as components of collective units. Information was controlled, was expected to flow only through authorized channels, and was often considered proprietary or secret. Scientific achievements was regarded as the result primarily of external factors such as the overall economic and political structure of the society, the sheer numbers of personnel, and adequate levels of funding. *
“Soviet influence also was realized through large-scale personnel exchanges. During the 1950s China sent about 38, 000 people to the Soviet Union for training and study. Most of these (28, 000) were technicians from key industries, but the total cohort included 7, 500 students and 2, 500 college and university teachers and postgraduate scientists. The Soviet Union dispatched some 11, 000 scientific and technical aid personnel to China. An estimated 850 of these worked in the scientific research sector, about 1, 000 in education and public health, and the rest in heavy industry. *
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Korean-War-era anti-American poster “The Soviet aid program of the 1950s was intended to develop China’s economy and to organize it along Soviet lines. As part of its First Five-Year Plan (1953-57), China was the recipient of the most comprehensive technology transfer in modern industrial history. The Soviet Union provided aid for 156 major industrial projects concentrated in mining, power generation, and heavy industry. Following the Soviet model of economic development, these were large-scale, capital-intensive projects. By the late 1950s, China had made substantial progress in such fields as electric power, steel production, basic chemicals, and machine tools, as well as in production of military equipment such as artillery, tanks, and jet aircraft. The purpose of the program was to increase China’s production of such basic commodities as coal and steel and to teach Chinese workers to operate
By 1952 Chinese soldiers outnumbered their allies by three to one; hundreds of thousands are thought to have died in the conflict. The repercussions are still playing out in the region. The war cemented an alliance that sustains Pyongyang in the face of widespread vilification, and created a powerful emotional bond. “Most Chinese have been immersed in an almost morbidly sentimental connection with the North, ” said Zhu Feng, professor of international relations at Peking University. For veterans, those links are particularly potent. “I didn't cry when my parents died but when I think of those who died in the war my tears roll down, ” said Xiang, recalling his comrades. ==
Anti-American sentiments stirred up by the Korean War helped Mao pursue his radical agenda. Up until the mid-1990s, Chinese middle school textbooks described the Korean War as China’s War to Resist America and Support Korea. The textbooks described how American Imperialists organized so-called United Nations forces to invade North Korea and then used the Seventh Fleet to prevent reunification of Taiwan with the mainland.
An article in July, 1997 in the Chinese Communist Party magazine Hundred Year Tide abandoned the 40-year claim that South Korea invaded North Korea and admitted that opposite was true and then went on to say that Stalin was the mastermind behind the war, Kim Il Sung was a naive radical who boasted the North would win in two weeks and Mao went along.”
Chinese And Russian Officials To Join North Korean Commemorations Of Korean War Armistice
Mao and Stalin in 1950 After the establishment of the People’s Republic in 1949, China reorganized its science establishment along Soviet lines — a system that remained in force until the late 1970s, when China’s leaders called for major reforms. The Soviet model is characterized by a bureaucratic rather than a professional principle of organization, the separation of research from production, the establishment of a set of specialized research institutes, and a high priority on applied science and technology, which includes military technology. [Source: Library of Congress *]
“Under the Soviet bureaucratic model, leadership was in the hands of nonscientists, who assign research tasks in accordance with a centrally determined plan. The administrators, not the scientists, controlled recruitment and personnel mobility. The primary rewards were administratively controlled salary increases, bonuses, and prizes. Individual scientists, seen as skilled workers and as employees of their institutions, were expected to work as components of collective units. Information was controlled, was expected to flow only through authorized channels, and was often considered proprietary or secret. Scientific achievements was regarded as the result primarily of external factors such as the overall economic and political structure of the society, the sheer numbers of personnel, and adequate levels of funding. *
“Soviet influence also was realized through large-scale personnel exchanges. During the 1950s China sent about 38, 000 people to the Soviet Union for training and study. Most of these (28, 000) were technicians from key industries, but the total cohort included 7, 500 students and 2, 500 college and university teachers and postgraduate scientists. The Soviet Union dispatched some 11, 000 scientific and technical aid personnel to China. An estimated 850 of these worked in the scientific research sector, about 1, 000 in education and public health, and the rest in heavy industry. *
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Korean-War-era anti-American poster “The Soviet aid program of the 1950s was intended to develop China’s economy and to organize it along Soviet lines. As part of its First Five-Year Plan (1953-57), China was the recipient of the most comprehensive technology transfer in modern industrial history. The Soviet Union provided aid for 156 major industrial projects concentrated in mining, power generation, and heavy industry. Following the Soviet model of economic development, these were large-scale, capital-intensive projects. By the late 1950s, China had made substantial progress in such fields as electric power, steel production, basic chemicals, and machine tools, as well as in production of military equipment such as artillery, tanks, and jet aircraft. The purpose of the program was to increase China’s production of such basic commodities as coal and steel and to teach Chinese workers to operate
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