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Radical Reunificationafter 1949
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• Card issued to celebrate the Great Leap Forward

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• Communists solidified power after the civil war
• October 1, 1949birth of Peoples Republic of
  China
• Revamped economy
• The Five-Antis program
• Korean War broke out
• Taiwan became new home of the Nationalists

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The evolution of Chinese Communism
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• Collectivizing Agriculture
• Began replacing feudal society
• Redistribution of land
• Grass-roots reorganization of rural China

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March to collectivism
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• The New China
• Attempted to redefine a new China
• Wants to be taken seriously

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Chinese children attack a snowman depicting
American Imperialism
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• China as a multi-national state
• Recognized 50 national minorities
• Autonomous zonessome home rule
• (Tibet, Ningxia, Guangxi, Xinjiang, and Inner
  Mongolia)

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• Subordinating intellectuals
• Reeducating of some intellectuals
• Rightist purges
• Mao wanted to control the intellectuals

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• The Great Leap Forward
• Mao wanted to modernize faster
• Public works projects
• Famine resulting in 30 million deaths
• Strained relations with USSR

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• The Cultural Revolution
• Party discord
• 1966 another revolution starts
• Universities closed
• Red Guards
• Chaos soon reigned
• 1968 Red Guards disbanded

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Learn from the workersanti-intellectual
reaction
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Red Guard
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Zhou Enlai courted the US to as a counterbalance
for the USSR
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• Promoting economic growth
• Deng worked hard to move millions out of poverty
• Extended educational opportunities
• Deng looked to outside investors
• Push for one-child families
• Female infanticide

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• Cultural trends in the 80s and 90s

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Radical Reunificationthe Potala in Lhasa, Tibet
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Celebrating Hong Kongs return to China