China Under Reform 1978--

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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 CPC

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Impact

• From World Resources Institute
  http//earthtrends.wri.org/updates/node/213

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Implications

• Economic Growth and Economic Freedoms
• Chinese integration into world
• Chinese power

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Four Modernizations

• Agriculture
• Industry
• Defense
• Science and Technology

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Special Economic Zones
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China in the World Economy

• Foreign Exports
• investment to the
• in China world

SEZ
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Shenzhen
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Guangzhou
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Shanghai
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Greater Chinese Economy
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Greater Chinese Economy
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Ideology

• Marxism
• Leninism
• Mao Zedong Thought
• Deng Xiaoping Theory
• 1992 Speech

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Four Cardinal Principles

1. to keep to the socialist road
2. to uphold the people's democratic dictatorship
3. leadership by the Communist Party
4. Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought

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Why Did the Reforms Begin?

• Impact of Cultural Revolution
• Failure of Maos Economy
• Lessons of Japan and Four Tigers
• Death of Mao

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Political Reform?

• Democracy Wall 1978-79
• Fall 1986
• Tiananmen Square 1989

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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

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Democracy Wall 12/78-12/79

• Xidan Street

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Wei Jingsheng

• The Fifth Modernization
• Wei Jingsheng Foundation
• Weis Essays
• On Trial 1979 After release (1993)

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Fall 1986

• General Secretary Hu Yaobang

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Tiananmen Square April 16-June 4, 1989

• Wang Dan, 1989
• (released from prison, 1998)

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Zhao Ziyang vs. Li Peng

• Zhao warning students

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June 4
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Results

• Zhao Ziyang
• Jiang Zemin
• Economic reform
• slowed 1989-1992
• But 1992
• Dengs tour of South
• 1992 Speech

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The CPC Message?

• There are limits to freedom in China
• Asking for political freedoms may jeopardize
  economic freedoms
• Goal politically agnostic capitalists