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Communism is a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a societ in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. After the fall of the Qing dynasty, China was in an uneasy situation. No one ruled over china anymore and eventually a period of warlordism arose. This lasted for 11 years from 1916 to 1927. During this period the principals of communism began to spread around and the majority liked those ideals. The rise in communism was mainly because of a man named Mao Zedong. He was a highly intelligent person and joined the nationalist army as the revolution began during 1911. He then found out about Marxism and was highly influenced by these philosophies. As china's citizens experienced starvation, poverty and grief they started to accept people like Mao Zedong and people began to join revolutionary groups and political parties. After decades of civil war and invasion by japan, the communists under Mao won and Communism finally came to power in 1949.
 * 1.What is communism and how did it begin in China? **

Chairman Mao, or Mao Zedong was a Chinese communist revolutionary, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist poilital philosopher, and leader of the Chinese revolution. He was the architect and founder of the people's republic of china in 1949 and had control of the nation until his death in 1976.
 * 2. Who is Chairman Mao? **

Before the 1930s life was pretty terrible for the Chinese people. The Government was in a wreck and warlordism was abundant. Communism generally improved the living standard of the average person, however it was still very appalling against our standards.
 * 3. What was life like for the Chinese people between 1930-1980? **

The long match was a military retreat taken by the red army of the communist part of china to evade pursuit of the chinese Nationalist party. The long march was a series of marches, as various communist armies in the south escaped to the north and west. The long march eventually began to ascent to Mao zedong, whose leadership during the retreat gained him the support of the members of the party.
 * 4. What is The Long March? **

China has monarchy, which was a government headed by an emperor and a royal family. Before communism China, like many other countries was agriculture based country and a leader would be more of a dictator than a king for the people who would take decisions beneficial to them. This leader had absolute power in all areas whether it was economy, governance or agriculture.
 * 5. What was the ruling structure in China before communism? **

The Chinese had many achievements from the start to today. One we know of today includes the gigantic, Great wall of China. Stretching over hundreds of kilometres and hand built, it is possibly the most labour demanding structure ever built. Gunpowder was another important invention. The Europeans discovered this Chinese invention and lead to the invention of guns, cannons and other weaponry. These weapons easily knocked down castles and fortresses and possibly ended the middle ages.
 * 6. Outline historical Chinese achievements. **

China is quite different today than those decades ago. Altogether China is a huge industrial powerhouse and one of the richest countries in the world. They are becoming more and more modernised and skyscrapers are being built constantly. Although the upper class are living a good life, the majority (poor people) are still living a difficult life as there is too many people to share the wealth china has.
 * 7. How has China changed today? What is life like in China now? **