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This 5 page paper examines China during Mao's reign and afterwards. How did the changes manifest? The two eras are compared and contrasted and the paper examines how trends overlapped as well. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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end until Mao Zedong was gone, but there had been a change even before that ("The Post-Mao," 2004). The Mao era officially ceased with the death of the Chairman in
1976 (2004). When Lin Biao passed away prior to that, in 1971, the nation at least partially pursued more moderate politics that deviated from what had occurred during the 1950s
and 1960s (2004). This is in part attribute to the influence of Zhou Enlai (2004). Hence, one cannot say that there was a strong difference between the day before Mao
died and the day afterwards. There was a transition that had begun prior to his death Much of the transition for China in terms of the Mao era and the
Post-Mao era goes to economic reforms but there are other aspects of this transition that best characterizes the change of a nation. Things do not happen overnight. Yet, economic change
often breeds social change. Perhaps the best way to evaluate the continuity and discontinuity between the Mao era and the post-Mao era is to look at the changing family structure
in China. Not only did family structures change but individuals would have more choices in certain ways. In other ways, things were more restrictive. During the Mao administration, studying
certain subjects like sociology was deemed to be dangerous (Davis & Harrell, 1993). In the universities, sociology departments were done away with and did not return until the late
1970s (1993). It was not until Mao was dead that the study of society was allowed as an academic discipline in China. This point is twofold. One, it demonstrates the
limitations of the era in terms of academic life. If the Chinese students and professors were not free to talk, how would they actually learn anything? Two, because sociology as
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