china under reform 1978-- deng xiaoping vol. 1 vol. 2 vol. 3
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Reforms Massive economic reform – capitalism End to Chinese isolation No challenges to CPC rule But, consensus decision making in CPCTRANSCRIPT
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
Special Economic Zones
China in the World Economy
Foreign Exportsinvestment to the in China world
SEZ
Shenzhen
Guangzhou
Shanghai
Greater Chinese Economy
Greater Chinese Economy
Ideology• Marxism• Leninism• Mao Zedong Thought• Deng Xiaoping Theory
– 1992 Speech
Four Cardinal Principles1. to keep to the socialist road2. to uphold the people's democratic
dictatorship3. leadership by the Communist Party4. 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 1980sDeng Xiaoping (priority on consensus)
Hu Yaobang Vs. Chen YunZhao Ziyang Li Peng
Speed up slower economiceconomic 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 PengZhao warning students
June 4
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