1. Communist and Post Communist Country
“CHINA”

3. WOTL: MABUHAY ANG TSINA

4. CHINA
Communism? Capitalism?

5. II. Political
development

6.  Prerevolutionary China was based on an
agrarian economy and governed by the ideas of
Confucius (551-479 B.C.)

7.  The Qing Manchus (1644-1911)
Problems:
1. Unable to respond to the needs of
a growing population for land and food.
2. Imperial credibility weakened by the
Opium war with Britain
3. Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864)
4. Defeated by Japan in the war 1894-
1895)

8. ii. Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925)
-Relied on the Military for its authority.
Problems:
 Continuing Western inroads into China
 Lost Control and fell into chaos.
Nationalist Party
(the Guomindang)
Chinese Communist Party
CCP
(1921)
Help…

9. ii. Chiang Kai-shek (1886-1975)
 Shanghai Massacre
 To unify Nationalist
 Legitimate Government
Problem:
-> Doing nothing about Land reform, leaving
the peasant poor and unhappy.

10. iii. Mao Zedong
 Long March
 Chinese Communist Party
 Chiang was obliged to agree to a second
alliance.
 1931 Invaded Manchuria
 PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA
 October 1, 1949, proclaimed in Beijing

11. How to achieve
the goals of
socialism….

12. PRIORITY

13. An Aggressive attempt by Mao to
accelerate Chinese economic
change
Mao for being
arrogant and
impatient, came
to close losing
power.
Problems:

15. Mao Zedong
Cultural Revolution
Liu Shaoqui
dismissed
Little Red Book
Deng Xiaoping
disgraced

16.  1966-1967
 The Ten Catastrophic Years
 Mao withdraw from Public life
 Zhou Enlai
 Began rebuilding the economy and the bureaucracy
and established the collective leadership for the
party.
 Jiang Qing (Mao’s Widow) & 3 other radical
forms continue Maoist ideas.

17.  Hu Yaobang –Party General Secretary
 Premier Zhao Ziyang
 Deng Xiaoping- the power behind the
throne.
 FITH MODERNIZATION (1978)
-New Constitution
Mixture Capitalism Socialism

18.  WOTL : Made in China
 China Politics and Government

19. “CHINA”

20.  Kinship & Communalism
 The Importance of
Concensus
 The Dominance of the State
 Poor Record of Human
Rights

21. EQUALITY IS A MYTH, because it is not about equality but
EQUITY.