Homework Quiz on China tomorrow (25 questions – 20 minutes). Study the China outline and your notes sheets! Castle Learning Review assignment #4 due Thursday by 11:59 pm. Review sessions start today at 3:15 pm in room 060! Bring you yellow packets.

II. China Under Mao Zedong ( ) D. The Great Leap Forward ( ): Plan to expand agriculture and industry in China 1. Peasants must give up their land and go work on collective farms, or communes. 2. On a commune, you own nothing and have little privacy. Most of the crops and money that the communes make go to the government. Peasants are miserable. 3. Program is HUGE FAILURE: Leads to crop failures, 20 million die of starvation.

II. China Under Mao Zedong ( ) E. The Cultural Revolution ( ): Mao’s plan to revive the Communist Revolution. 1. Led by militia units called Red Guards, which were made up of high school and college students. 2. Goal is to establish a society of peasants and workers where all would be equal.

II. China Under Mao Zedong ( ) 3. Red Guards considered intellectuals and artists to be useless and dangerous. They shut down colleges and schools, killed or exiled teachers and intellectuals. Eventually, they started killing or jailing anyone who seemed to have special privileges (factory managers, government officials, parents). 4. Result: CHAOS! Factories shut down, farm production decreases. By 1976, Mao realized his plan had failed and had the army dissolve the Red Guards.

Aim: What is China like today? May 23, 2016

I. China’s Economic Reform A.Mao dies in China’s economy is in terrible shape from the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution. B.Deng Xiaoping ( ): Replaced Mao as China’s leader. His goal was to modernize China by reforming its economy. His plan was called the Four Modernizations: 1. Land Reform: Collective farms were disbanded and farmers could rent their own private land from the government. 2. Consumer Goods: China begins producing consumer goods like radios, televisions, stylish clothing. 3. Limited Capitalism: Individuals could now own their own small businesses and sell what they produce for a profit. 4. Foreign Trade and Investment: Increased trade with foreign countries ended China’s economic isolation. Special Economic Zones allow foreign companies to build factories and get lower tax rates. C. Thanks to these reforms, China had the world’s fastest growing economy by the mid-1990s!

II. Tiananmen Square A.Even though China has become more economically open, it is still a communist dictatorship that limits freedom of speech and human rights. B.In 1989, 3,000 students were peacefully demonstrating in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square for greater freedom, democracy and an end to government corruption. When the demonstrators refused to leave, Deng ordered tanks to fire on them, killing hundreds. Student leaders were arrested and imprisoned or executed.

III. China Today A.Deng Xiaping dies in Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao follow as leaders. B.Continue Deng’s policies of expanding economic freedom but limiting political rights. C.In 1997, Hong Kong (a major financial and industrial center) was returned by Britain to China. Hong Kong continues to enjoy a large degree of self-government. Describe what you see in this political cartoon. What is the message of this cartoon?

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