Randa Abdel-Fattah
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3,221 appearances
41 recordings
9 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 8 Sep
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Part one, the great manager.
I want to take you back to a time before China was the global juggernaut it is today.
It's May 1966, and the Chinese Communist Party, run by Chairman Mao Zedong, issues a warning.
No capitalist infiltrators.
Communism must survive.
Wealth must be distributed and not held by individuals.
This is Kerry Brown, a professor of Chinese studies and director of the Lao China Institute at King's College London.
Mao's plan had been to industrialize the country through collective farming, which also diverted labor from other agricultural activities, leading to a plunge in grain production.
People were starving.
An estimated 30 million people died.
The Cultural Revolution was Chairman Mao's attempt to regain control over the party.
His strategy was ruthless.
There's a deliberate destruction of culture, ideas, customs, habits.
Historical artifacts were destroyed and ancient scrolls were torn apart.
Intellectuals were persecuted or imprisoned.
Families were forced to destroy heirlooms to avoid persecution.
The lives of citizens themselves were destroyed.
Millions were forcibly relocated to the countryside and forced to perform manual labor.
Visiting Western journalists covered the strict working conditions.
— Life in China was really dire.
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