6. Resources
• Why did other
countries seek out
trade with China and
later seek to take over
pieces of China?
• What valuable
resources are there?
• Why was Manchuria a
hot spot?
26. Manchu (Qing)
Dynasty
What did the Chinese think of
foreigners?
How had trade been
conducted for hundreds of
years?
27. China’s Unlucky Century
The 1800s
• The relationship between China and the
Europeans changed in the 19th century.
Improvements in European technology
gave Europeans an edge over the
Chinese after centuries of kowtowing to
the Chinese in trade. China’s failure to
adopt these new technologies would make
them vulnerable to European domination.
28. Opium War:
Causes
• Unfavorable balance
of trade frustrated
Britain
• China would not buy
anything from Britain
but Britain bought Britain decided to see
many items from opium (from India) to
China – Britain was Chinese to get its
losing a lot of gold money back –
Chinese government
told them to stop!
29.
30. Opium War:
Effects
• Treaty of Nanking
– Britain gets Hong Kong
– China opens ports to
British trade
– Spheres of influence
– Extraterritoriality
– $21 million in indemnities given to Britain
– How does the Manchu Emperor look as a
result?
41. China Under Mao Zedong
1949-1976
• Little Red Book
– What does indoctrination mean?
– How was the Little Red Book
(aka The Thoughts of Mao
Zedong used to do it?
42. Great Leap Forward
• The G.L.F. is an example of a Five Year
Plan.
• What is the purpose of a Five
Year Plan?
45. Cultural Revolution
• In 1966, Mao Zedong
announced the
“Cultural Revolution”
which was aimed at
getting rid of anyone
questioning his
power.
Why was it called the “Cultural” Revolution?
What kind of people did he consider a
threat?
53. China Under Deng Xiaoping
• Deng Xiaoping comes to
power after Mao’s death in
1976
• Deng has a different
vision for the future of
China….or does he?
54. Four Modernizations
• Deng’s goal is to modernize
China by the year 2000
• The four areas he plans to
modernize are:
– 1.
2.
3.
4.
58. Tiananmen Square Massacre
• What happened in China (a
country where great economic
gains were occurring) that led
the government to attack its
own students?
• Pictures taken from
• http://www.cnd.org/June4th/64pics.html
81. One-Child Policy
• During the 1960s and 1970s, Mao Zedong
had encouraged the Chinese people to
have as many babies as possible to make
China a greater nation.
• What is the problem with that plan?
82. One Child Policy
• When Deng Xiaoping came to power, he
realized that one of the first things that had
to be controlled was China’s population
growth.
• Too many people = not enough resources
to provide an adequate living
• Therefore, he enacted the One Child
Policy
