1. China After Mao Death of Mao September Arrest of the Gang of Four
Reversal of Verdicts
Evaluation of Mao
Hua Guofeng,
“Whateverism”
Four Modernizations
Return of Deng Xiaoping ( )

2. Death of Mao

3. Death of Mao September 9, 1976
Leadership on edge anticipate power struggle
Popular reaction muted
Hua Guofeng delivered eulogy
People’s Daily: “Act According to the Principles Laid Down”
Construction of Mausoleum

4. Closing the Books on the Cultural Revolution (CR)
Rehabilitation of victims
Reversal of verdicts
No purge of beneficiaries
Half of party members joined during CR
Central Advisory Commission (senior cadres)
Liu Shaoqi, “biggest frame-up” in party history

5. Closing the Books: Trials of the Gang of Four and Lin Biao Clique
Criminal Acts vs. Political Errors
Jiang Qing ( )
Mao’s Wife
Zhang Chunqiao ( )
Shanghai Journalist
Yao Wenyuan ( )
Literary Critic
Wang Hongwen ( )
Shanghai worker

6. Oppose the Gang of Four

7. “The most obstinate member” Zhang Chunqiao, Gang of Four

8. “Dignified Trial?” “I was Chairman Mao's dog.”

9. Resolution on Certain Questions in Our Party's History since the Founding of the PRC (June 1981)
Official Evaluation of Mao and C R:
“Most Severe setback and heaviest losses”
“Conformed neither to Marxism, Leninism, or Chinese reality”
“Chief responsibility for the grave ‘Left’ error of the Cultural Revolution” Mao
Arrogant, “acted more and more arbitrarily and subjectively”

10. Gang of Four or Five? Evaluating Mao
Contributions
Revolutionary Leader (Lenin)
“New Society”
Mistakes
Great leap
Personality Cult
Cultural Revolution “catastrophe”
Major blame Lin Biao and Gang of Four

11. Post -Mao Power Struggle
Arrest of the Gang of Four (October 1976)
Hua Guofeng ( )
Mao’s Successor ( )
“With you in charge, I am at ease.” (你辦事我放心)
CCP, Premier, MAC
“Whateverism”
Lacked stature of veteran cadres

12. Four Modernizations Agriculture Industry National Defense
Science and Technology

13. Four Modernizations

14. Fifth Modernization: Democracy?
Democracy Wall
Wei Jingsheng

15. “Seek Truth from Facts” (實事求是)
Deng Xiaoping ( )
Veteran Party leader Survivor of Cultural Revolution
“Reversal of Verdicts” (1978)
“Literature of the Wounded”
Democracy Wall, Beijing (1979)
“Open Door Policy”
“Socialism with Chinese Characteristics”
Special Economic Zones