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June 2025 Pearson Edexcel: GCSE (9–1)
History 1HI0/32 – Paper 3: Modern Depth
Study – Option 32: Mao’s China c.1945–
1976 – Merged Question Paper & Mark
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PAPER 3: Modern depth study
Option 32: Mao’s China, c1945–76
Instructions
•• Use black ink or ball-point pen.
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page with your name,
• InThen
centre number and candidate number.
Section A, answer Question 1 and EITHER Question 2(a) OR Question 2(b).
answer all questions in Section B.
• – there may
Answer the questions in the spaces provided
be more space than you need.
Information
•• The total mark for this paper is 52.
The marks for each question are shown in brackets
• The
– use this as a guide as to how much time to spend on each question.
marks available for spelling, punctuation, grammar and use of specialist
terminology are clearly indicated.
Advice
•• Read each question carefully before you start to answer it.
Check your answers if you have time at the end.
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Answer Question 1 and then EITHER Question 2(a) OR Question 2(b).
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Study Source A below and then answer Question 1.
Source A: From Report from a Chinese Village by Jan Myrdal, published in 1965. Myrdal
was a European who lived in a Chinese village for a month in 1962.
Before Mao, women in the village only did housework. Now, they also work in
the fields and earn their own money.
But the older men in the village still say, ‘What does a woman know? Women
know nothing! What is a woman worth? Women are worth nothing!’
In these village families the men decide everything and their wives say, ‘We
are only women. We are not allowed to say anything.’
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, 1 Give two things you can infer from Source A about the status of women in China
under Mao.
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Complete the table below to explain your answer.
(i) What I can infer:
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Details in the source that tell me this:
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(ii) What I can infer:
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Details in the source that tell me this:
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(Total for Question 1 = 4 marks)
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, Answer EITHER Question 2(a) OR Question 2(b).
EITHER
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2 (a) Explain why Mao introduced the second Five-Year Plan (Great Leap Forward).
(12)
You may use the following in your answer:
• Mao’s mistrust of experts
• the first Five-Year Plan
You must also use information of your own.
OR
(b) Explain why Mao introduced the Cultural Revolution.
(12)
You may use the following in your answer:
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• Mao’s beliefs
• power struggle
You must also use information of your own.
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