China

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China

• CHAPTER ELEVEN

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Thinking About China

• The Basics
• The worlds largest country
• Ethnic homogeneity
• The Middle Kingdom
• Poverty and prosperity

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Thinking About China

• Key Questions
• Can global influences be limited to the economy?
• Will the state continue to be able to suppress
  dissent?
• Where will future Party leaders come from?
• What will the fourth generation of Party leaders
  be like?

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The Evolution of the Chinese State

1. The broad sweep of Chinese history
2. Failed revolution
3. China stands up
4. Factionalism
5. Since Maos death

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Political Culture and Participation

• A. A Blank slate? Cultural Revolution?
• Collectivism
• Struggle and activism
• Egalitarianism and populism
• Self-reliance
• Diversity

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Political Culture and Participation

• B. Participation from the top down
• C. Change in the countryside
• D. Dissent
• Democracy Wall
• The Democracy Movement
• Falun Gong

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The Party State

• A. The Basics
• B. Variations on a theme

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Public Policy Perestroika without Glasnost

• A. Economic reform
• Agriculture
• Private enterprise
• B. Foreign policy

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Key Events in Chinese History since the Revolution
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Economic Growth in China (annual change in
percentage)