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 Zhang Chunqiao Wang Hongwen (Mao's wife)
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
Xiamen Shenzhen Shantou Zhuhai
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
Avenue Xidan
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