China in the Post-Mao Period

1. Emergence of Deng Xiaoping2. Reaching out to the world3. Economic reform4. Political protest

China in the Post-Mao Period

Zhou Enlai, d. January 1976Zhu De, d. July 1976Mao Zedong, d. September 1976

Tiananmen SquareBeijing, 1976

Zhou Enlai1898-1976

Chairman Mao Memorial HallTiananmen Square, Beijing

Tourists queuing up to enter Mao's MausoleumTiananmen Square, Beijing

Trial of the "Gang of Four"Beijing, 1981

Yao Wenyuan Jiang Qing Zhang Chunqiao Wang Hongwen(Mao's wife)

Hua Guofeng Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping1904-1997

Deng Xiaoping in France, ca. 1920.

1. Emergence of Deng Xiaoping2. Reaching out to the world3. Economic reform4. Political protest

Down with American Imperialists and Soviet Revisionists! (1967)

Ping pong diplomacy1971

Time Magazine, April 26, 1971

Mao Zedong and Richard M. Nixon in China, 1972

Shanghai CommuniquéFebruary 28, 1972

Deng Xiaoping and Jimmy Carter during signing ceremony of the Joint Communiqué of 1979.

Taiwan Relations Act1979

1. Emergence of Deng Xiaoping2. Reaching out to the world3. Economic reform4. Political protest

I don't care if it's a white cat or a black cat. It's a good cat so long as it catches mice.

Deng Xiaoping

One Child Policy1978-present

socialism with Chinese characteristics

socialist market economy

Deng Xiaoping: "Build Socialism with Chinese Characteristics"

Four Modernizations

agricultureindustryscience and technologynational defense

responsibility system

Special Economic Zone

Shenzhen (1980)

2008 photograph of downtown Shenzhen

Special Economic Zones Economic and Technical Development Zones

XiamenShantouShenzhen

Zhuhai

China gross domestic product, 1960-2010

Shanghai cityscape

China's 10 largest cities

1. Emergence of Deng Xiaoping2. Reaching out to the world3. Economic reform4. Political protest

Wreath-laying at the Monument to the Martyrs of the Revolution in honor of Zhou Enlai. 1976, Tiananmen Square, Beijing

Deng Xiaoping1904-1997

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Chang'an Avenue

Democracy Wall1978-1979

Wei Jingshengb. 1950

"The Fifth Modernization"1978

democratic centralism

Four Cardinal Principles (1979)

retaining the socialist pathdictatorship of the proletariatleadership of the Communist Partyideology of Marxism, Leninism, and Maoism

Campaign against Spiritual Pollution (1983)

1986 student movement

Science and Technology UniversityHefei, Anhui

December 9

Fang Lizhi方勵之b. 1936

Vice PresidentScience and Technology University

Hu Yaobang1980-1987

Zhao Ziyang1987-1989

General Secretary of the Communist Party of China

student leader Wang DanTiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989

Secretary General Zhao ZiyangMay 19, 1989

Goddess of Democracy statueTiananmen Square, Beijing, 1989