The early 1950’s was a particularly interesting time in Chinese history. After just emerging from a civil war, which ended in 1949, the communist party seized control of the entire region from the nationalist party. The defeat of this party led to their retreat to the island of Taiwan, where they were isolated from the rest of the world. However, during the 1990’s, despite the end of one era of conflict, they entered a new one in the form of the Korean War. Furthermore, many new aggressive communist policies were issued in the form of land reforms. This could be argued to go against the above statement as it was in fact a period of reasonably significant violence and conflict. The Korean War began in 1950 and ended in 1953. The war began due to the stress imposed on Mao by Stalin and the USSR, to join the fight and defend communism against the threat from the East, particularly the U.S. This is why this war is seen as a proxy war as it occurred at the time of the Cold War. However, Mao himself could be seen to having wanted to enter the war to increase the RPC’s reputation on an international scale. The Korean War, directly conflicts with this statement, as they were fighting a war during this period, with over 3 million troops being sent to fight in three years, and only 2 million returning with their lives. This, in such a short amount of time, is a huge loss of life and leads us to think of this period as a negative time of huge losses of life and conflict. However, on the other side of this argument, many argue that within China, the early 1950s were a time of little conflict and therefore peace. This is due to the coming to an end of the civil war, which claimed many Chinese lives and caused disruption and violence throughout the region. On the other hand, peace can be argued to have been achieved through the use of the land reform, which began in 1950 and continued through to 1953. This is a period where Mao focused his p