During its climb to power in the 1930s and 1940s, the Chinese Communist Party under Mao Zedong developed a strategy that focused on 1. taking over cities 2. building peasant support 3. sponsoring nonviolent protests 4. strengthening traditional Confucian values

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2. building peasant support

Securing peasant support was key for Mao, as the peasant class sympathised with him and supported him as he came from peasantry himself. His goal was to preserve 'true' Communist ideology in the country by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Maoist thought as the dominant ideology within the Party