Lesson 21

April 9, 2015

Thu, Apr 9

Review:

• Course Announcements
  • Final Paper Due Wed Apr 29 at 5pm
  • Map Quiz Make-Up and Final Exam in class on Thu Apr 23 
  • Research Paper Presentations in class on Tue Apr 21
  • You may take the Final Exam in lieu of research paper presentation.
• Africa Quiz Results – please email score to Becky
• China’s “Dramatic Rise” Video – Historical References
  • 1949 Mao Tse-tung’s Chinese Communist Party (CCP) takes power.
    • Kuo-min Tang (KMT), led by Chiang Kai-shek, retreats to Taiwan
  • 1958-1959 Great Leap Forward
    • Industrialization campaign
    • Widespread famine kills up to 30 million
  • 1966-1970 Cultural Revolution
    • Red Guards purge “revisionism” (Soviet) and “capitalism” (American) ideals
  • 1978-1987 One Child Policy
    • Population Pyramid
  • 1989 Tiananmen Square
    • Timeline
    • Tank Man

Presentation:

• China’s Market Economy
  • 1978- 1992 Deng Xioping
    • Architect of new policy combining Socialism with Market Economics
    • Open Door policy allowed Foreign Direct Investment
    • Special Economic Zones were designated
    • Investment from Chinese immigrants living in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia and originally from South/Southeast Coastal China (many relocated during Cultural Revolution)
    • Rapid GDP growth
    • FDI 1980-2013
    • Map of FDI activity

 

Assignment:

• Study Geography of Southeast Asia and prepare for combined Quiz with East Asia
• Population Density in Asia
• Recommended [Optional]
  • Economist Explains: China-Taiwan
  • Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of the Dalai Lama
  • Seven Years in Tibet

• Deadlines
  • Final Paper Due Wed Apr 29 at 5pm
  • Final Exam (Quiz Make-up and Presentation Substitute) on Thu Apr 23 
  • Research Paper Presentations on Tue Apr 21
  • You may take the Final Exam in lieu of presenting you research paper.