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Explore China's massive economic reforms under Deng Xiaoping, from ending isolation to integrating into the world economy. Learn about the Four Modernizations, SEZs, and the balance between economic and political freedoms.
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China Under Reform 1978-- • Deng Xiaoping • Vol. 1 • Vol. 2 • Vol. 3
Reforms • Massive economic reform – capitalism • End to Chinese isolation • No challenges to CPC rule • But, consensus decision making in CPC
Impact • From World Resources Institute: http://earthtrends.wri.org/updates/node/213
Implications • Economic Growth and Economic Freedoms • Chinese integration into world • Chinese power
Four Modernizations • Agriculture • Industry • Defense • Science and Technology
China in the World Economy Foreign Exports investment to the in China world SEZ
Ideology • Marxism • Leninism • Mao Zedong Thought • Deng Xiaoping Theory • 1992 Speech
Four Cardinal Principles • to keep to the socialist road • to uphold the people's democratic dictatorship • leadership by the Communist Party • Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought
Why Did the Reforms Begin? • Impact of Cultural Revolution • Failure of Mao’s Economy • Lessons of Japan and Four Tigers • Death of Mao
Political Reform? • Democracy Wall 1978-79 • Fall 1986 • Tiananmen Square 1989
Factional Battle 1980s Deng Xiaoping (priority on consensus) Hu Yaobang Vs. Chen Yun Zhao Ziyang Li Peng Speed up slower economic economic reforms; reforms; Limited political reform no political reform
Democracy Wall 12/78-12/79 Xidan Street
Wei Jingsheng • “The Fifth Modernization” • Wei Jingsheng Foundation • Wei’s Essays On Trial 1979 After release (1993)
Fall 1986 General Secretary Hu Yaobang
Tiananmen Square April 16-June 4, 1989 • Wang Dan, 1989 (released from prison, 1998)
Zhao Ziyang vs. Li Peng Zhao warning students
Results • Zhao Ziyang • Jiang Zemin • Economic reform slowed 1989-1992 • But 1992: Deng’s tour of South • 1992 Speech
The CPC Message? • There are limits to freedom in China • Asking for political freedoms may jeopardize economic freedoms • Goal: politically agnostic capitalists