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Title: WHY IS CHINA CAPITALIST AND COMMUNIST AT THE SAME TIME?


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WHY IS CHINA CAPITALIST AND COMMUNIST AT THE SAME
TIME?
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CHINA SINCE 1976
  • Prosecution of the Gang of Four- blamed for
    pushing Mao into the madness of the Cultural
    Revolution
  • IDEALISTS vs. PRAGMATISTS

3
IDEOLOGUES
  • Want to preserve the pure ideals of the
    revolution
  • Want to continue to institute communism
    immediately
  • Responsible for the Cultural Revolution and its
    excesses
  • How many people died during it?

4
PRAGMATISTS
  • Realize many communist experiments havent
    worked.
  • Are willing to allow free market to develop, but
    maintain control over govt. and people.
  • Believe it is necessary for a capitalist phase
    before true communism can succeed.
  • Willing to talk with the West.

5
DENG XIAO-PING
6
THE FOUR MODERNIZATIONS OF DENG
  • Worker Bonuses
  • Responsibility System
  • New Open Door Policy
  • Special Economic Zones

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AND STILL GROWING!
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SHENZHEN
  • Brand new city
  • Adjacent to Hong Kong
  • First Special Economic Zone
  • Population has increased 31x since 1982, now home
    to six-ten million people, half of them migrant
    workers from countryside.

11
SHENZHEN Contd.
  • Shenzhen created to attract industrial investment
    from Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong, former British colony, became part of
    Peoples Republic in 1997.
  • Today, Pearl River Delta is largest manufacturing
    base in the world.

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CHALLENGES 1
  • Tiananmen Square
  • 1989
  • Students protest
  • removal of popular leader.
  • Grows into pro-democracy rally.
  • Goddess of Liberty
  • Govt. sends in Mongol
  • Troops to put it down,
  • bloodily.
  • Government tolerates no dissent from then on, and
    harasses dissenters.

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GODDESS OF LIBERTY
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CHALLENGE 2 MIGRATION FROM COUNTRYSIDE TO CITIES
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BUT COMMUNISMS NOT GOING AWAY YET!
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CHALLENGE 3 THE ENVIRONMENTTHREE GORGES DAM
  • Damming of Yangtze River
  • Production of hydroelectric power control of
    flooding
  • Displacement of 1.3 million people
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