China in the Post-Mao Period
China in the Post-Mao Period
1. Emergence of Deng Xiaoping
2. Reaching out to the world
3. Economic reform
4. Political protest
Zhou Enlai, d. January 1976
Zhu De, d. July 1976
Mao Zedong, d. September 1976
Tiananmen Square
Beijing, 1976
Zhou Enlai
1898-1976
Chairman Mao Memorial Hall
Tiananmen Square, Beijing
Tourists queuing up to enter Mao's Mausoleum
Tiananmen Square, Beijing
Trial of the "Gang of Four"
Beijing, 1981
Yao Wenyuan
Jiang Qing
(Mao's wife)
Zhang Chunqiao Wang Hongwen
Hua Guofeng
Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping
1904-1997
Deng Xiaoping in France,
ca. 1920.
1. Emergence of Deng Xiaoping
2. Reaching out to the world
3. Economic reform
4. Political protest
Down with American Imperialists and
Soviet Revisionists! (1967)
Ping pong diplomacy
1971
Time Magazine, April 26, 1971
Mao Zedong and Richard M. Nixon in China, 1972
Shanghai Communiqué
February 28, 1972
Deng Xiaoping and Jimmy Carter
during signing ceremony of the Joint
Communiqué of 1979.
Taiwan Relations Act
1979
1. Emergence of Deng Xiaoping
2. Reaching out to the world
3. Economic reform
4. Political protest
I don't care if it's a white cat or a black cat.
It's a good cat so long as it catches mice.
Deng Xiaoping
One Child Policy
1978-present
Deng Xiaoping: "Build Socialism with Chinese Characteristics"
socialism with Chinese characteristics
socialist market economy
Four Modernizations
agriculture
industry
science and technology
national defense
responsibility system
Special Economic Zone
Shenzhen (1980)
2008 photograph of downtown Shenzhen
Special Economic Zones
Economic and Technical Development Zones
Shenzhen
Zhuhai
Xiamen
Shantou
China gross domestic product, 1960-2010
Shanghai cityscape
China's 10 largest cities
1. Emergence of Deng Xiaoping
2. Reaching out to the world
3. Economic reform
4. Political protest
Wreath-laying at the Monument to the Martyrs of the Revolution
in honor of Zhou Enlai. 1976, Tiananmen Square, Beijing
Deng Xiaoping
1904-1997
Xidan Avenue
Chang'an Avenue
Democracy Wall
1978-1979
Wei Jingsheng
b. 1950
"The Fifth Modernization"
1978
democratic centralism
Four Cardinal Principles (1979)
retaining the socialist path
dictatorship of the proletariat
leadership of the Communist Party
ideology of Marxism, Leninism, and Maoism
Campaign against Spiritual Pollution (1983)
1986 student movement
Science and Technology University
Hefei, Anhui
December 9
Fang Lizhi
方勵之
b. 1936
Vice President
Science and Technology
University
General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
Hu Yaobang
Zhao Ziyang
1980-1987
1987-1989
student leader Wang Dan
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989
Secretary General Zhao Ziyang
May 19, 1989
Goddess of Democracy statue
Tiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989