Lesson 11: China’s Dramatic Rise
February 18, 2020
Review:
- Quiz 05
- South Asia geography
- Population dynamics
- India and Pakistan – Nightly Business Report
Presentation:
- China – Key Events in the 20th Century
- 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
- 1989 Tiananmen Square
- 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
- 1949 Mao Tse-tung’s Chinese Communist Party (CCP) takes power.
- Video: China: Rise of an Asian Giant (CNA – Singapore)
Assignment:
- Watch the rest of China: Rise of an Asian Giant (CNA – Singapore)
- Watch China: Power and Prosperity (PBS Newshour)
- Watch To Live (recommended, not required)