1. Dynastic China 2205 BC-1911

2. Order-Chaos Pattern
Order
Chaos
Time

3. Opium Wars

4. Nationalist Party: Kuomintang (KMT)
Sun Yat Sen
1890s-1925
Chiang Kaishek

5. Communism
Marx Lenin Mao Zedong

6. Gate to Forbidden City at Tiananmen Square

7. Government Structure (based on 1982 Constitution)
“Elected” by provincial and city congresses
Ministries
Institutions
Organizations
Commissions
Working Organs
State Council
(headed by
Premier)
Supreme
People’s
Court
NPC Standing Committee
National People’s Congress (NPC)

8. Great Hall of the People (where the National People’s Congress meets)

9. CCP Party Structure General Politburo Standing Secretary Military
Committee
(7-9 members)
Military
Affairs
Commission
“Elected” by province, city, county, municipal, organizational committees
Party Secretariat
Politburo
(25-35 members)
Central Committee of Party Congress
National Party Congress
(meets every five years, 2007, 2012)

10. Current Communist Party Leaders
#1 Hu Jintao #2 Wu Bangguo #3 Wen Jiabao
Pres. Chair NPC Premier

11. Great Leap Forward ( )
Source: State Statistical Bureau (1992): 1990 Population Census of China. Beijing as detailed on: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, “China's Total Population by Sex and Age, Census 1990”
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12. Cultural Revolution

13. Deng Xiaoping

14. Special Economic Zones

15. The Economic Model for Development
Foreign Exports
Direct
Investment
(FDI)
SEZ

16. Shenzhen

17. Guangzhou (plans)

18. Shanghai (2006) 18

19. Democracy Wall, 1978/79

20. Tiananmen Square, 1989

24. The Statistics

25. A Long Way to Go 25