Main Idea: China opens up to the West and implements
reforms while maintaining its Communist system. Questions remain about the
prospects for democracy in China, even as China regains Hong Kong.
IV. China
Five Year Plan |
·
Industry grew 15 % a year ·
Agricultural output grew slowly |
|
Great Leap Forward |
·
Suffered economic disaster—industrial declines
& food shortages ·
Mao lost influence |
|
Cultural Revolution |
·
Mao regained influence by backing radicals ·
Purges & conflicts among leaders created
economic, social, & political chaos ·
Moderates increasingly opposed radicals in
Communist Party ·
Zhou Enlai (premier) tried to restrain the
radicals |
B
China & the West
1.
1971: opens door to West; table tennis team from US (Nixon)
2.
Deng Xiaoping (last of the “old revolutionaries”)
a.
Four Modernizations: progress in agriculture, industry,
defense, science & technology
b.
Second Revolution: economic reforms
c.
Produced changes
C
Tiananmen Square—1989
1.
Economic success è political change
2.
Democracy movement: government suppresses students with
military
D
The Present
1.
Economy continues to prosper
2.
Deng’s death—questions about future, Jiang Zemin president
3.
Regains Hong Kong, creating fears about city’s future