Sarah Paine

which they do, and it's bloody because the Taiwanese don't want their land redistributed.

And the Taiwanese were given bonds, and they thought those bonds would be like the pieces of paper that were issued in the mainland, i.e.

worth nothing.

But actually, after time, they became quite valuable.

But land reform was bloody in Taiwan.

But today, Taiwan has a very equal income distribution rate.

It's famine.

If you have warfare, you have famine.

Yeah, it's not mostly bang, bang, you're dead.

It's just that goes on too.

But it's starvation.

We disrupt things in this way.

Oh, I think it's because everyone's on board about the peasants have got their land.

The only way they're ever going to keep it, they think, is by supporting the communists.

Mao isn't living any kind of luxurious life.

That was another thing, that you have these rich officer corps and the nationalists flaunting their wealth among absolutely starving people.

And that's another reason why they were hated.

Whereas the communists never had those people.

So no one's flaunting their wealth.

You saw the pictures of Mao and his beloved there in these incredibly baggy clothing.