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Social and Cultural Changes - Coggle Diagram

- - - - outlawed in 1911 but still persisted in rural areas, CCP brought it to a speedier end
  - - - women in overall workforce x4 between 1949-76 (8%->32%), still less than 1/3 of workforce, opportunities male dominated
- - - - national literacy rate (20% 1949 -> 64% in 1964)
- - - - ideological: young generation to understand the peasants, a form of mass mobilisation -- understanding the roots of the revolution
      - econ: much cheaper, short training, paid little by villagers
      - medical: to tackle common diseases in the rural areas (virtually no medical help in the countryside)
  - - - propaganda drives on the importance of hygiene + link between dirt and disease
      - success: reduced death rate from waterborne diseases (encouraged digging deeper wells + discouraging using human fertiliser)
    - - invoked competition to eradicate (flies, mosquitoes, rats and sparrows)
      - failure: damaged ecological balance