THE END OF IMPERIAL CHINA

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A Chinese Puzzle An economic superpower run as a one-party communist state with capitalist ambitions

THE END OF IMPERIAL CHINA Until the early 20th century (1912) China was run as a monarchy under a long line of Emperors The last emperor of China was Puyi the last of the Qing dynasty The final years of the Qing dynasty were marked by turmoil,civil war and attempts by European nations to gain power in China Puyi became emperor at the age of 2yrs!

Reactions to European interference -The Boxer Rebellion-

Civil War- Nationalist -v- Communist Nationalists Chiang Kai-shek Republican Democracy Capitalist Ide0logy Communists Mao Tse Tung Single Party State Communist Ideology

Capitalism - Communism (Adam Smith - Wealth of Nations) Allow people to pursue economic self interest Hard work and individual freedom will allow people to improve their lives Raise money(capital) from market- invest in business- keep profits Government should not interfere with the economy - free market Communism (Karl Marx - Das Capital) People should work together to improve the nation and have equal share of the nation’ wealth Workers should control means of production (resources, farming and industry) Government controls and plans the economy - command economy

Civil War 1927 -1949/50 (with a short break for WWII) 22 years of conflict and carnage!

Communist Victory

Peoples Republic of China 1st Oct 1949 Declaration of Peoples Republic of China Redistribution of Land Government takes control of agriculture Sets up series of 5 year plans - targets for grain production Collectivization of Farms

The Great Leap Forward 1958-1961 An attempt to rapidly industrialize and improve food production Private ownership of land abolished 700 mllion people organized into 27,000 communes 600,000 Backyard iron/steel furnaces set up in villages - labour diverted to steel production Experiments in grain production/irrigation backfired Droughts, failed rains, locusts http://www.iisg.nl/~landsberger/glf.html

Aftermath 20 million people died of starvation & related diseases “The economic disaster was 30% fault of nature, 70% human error” Liu Shaoqui Mao Steps down as Chairman 1959

The Cultural Revolution Getting Rids of the “The Four Olds” Old Culture Old Customs Old Habits Old Ideas

The Red Guard

“Beating Down the Counter Revolutionaries”

The Four Modernizations Deng Xiaoping Modernize Agriculture Industry Science Military Huge investment Radical change - private ownership of business and land allowed

Tianamen Square 1989

Tianamen Square 1989

Reform, Change, Growth! BBC http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7780477.stm

A good source of information BBC:The Peoples Republic at 50 - a special report

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