2oth Century China
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2oth Century China1908 - Today
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The Creation of the Chinese Republic
• Kuomintang: Nationalist movement formed China into a republic. – When Ci Xi (Hsu – Tsi)
(Empress Dowager) died (1908), a three-yr old boy (Pu-Yi) inherited the throne.
– Peasants, students, warlords, and politicians toppled dynasty. Yixian took power. (1911)
– Yuan Shikai – Runs Republic until 1916.
– Corrupt Republic 1916 – 1926.* 1919 May Fourth Movement
– The Emperor was imprisoned within the Forbidden City.
• Sun Yixian (Yat-sen): spokesperson for Kuomintang.
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The Forbidden City
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The Creation of the Chinese Republic con’t
• Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek): After Sun Yixian died, Jieshi took over in 1925. – He crushed warlords
and slaughtered communist party members.
– Civil war broke out and lasted the for the next 22 years.
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The Chinese Civil War: 1926-1949
• Mao Zedong- One of the survivors of Jieshi’s attacks, led the communist forces.
• **The Long March– 100,000 communist troops fled
Jieshi’s “extermination campaigns” for 6,000 miles only 20,000 survived.
Relations During WWII: – The Nationalists and Communists
joined together to fight the Japanese outside Beijing on July 7, 1937.
FOLLOWING THE WAR: - Mao’s forces gain popularity & take Beijing in 1949.
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The People’s Republic of China• The Communists seize
control October 1, 1949. – Mao Zedong set up the
People’s Republic of China.
– Jiang Jieshi and his supporters fled to Taiwan.
– Today, Taiwan is still a democratic nation, while mainland China is Communist.
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The Great Leap Forward1958 - 1961
What was it, according to the propaganda?
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The Cultural Revolution1966 - 1968
What was it? What can we learn fromthe propaganda?
What is a cult of personality? Whatother totalitarian leaders had a cult of personality?
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The Red Guards
The “Lost Generation”
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China
Reform and Reaction
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China and the West
• Mao and Zhou Enlai, look West– 1972, Nixon meets with Mao and Zhou– Agree to exchange culture, limited trade– 1979, US and China establish diplomatic relations
• Economic Reform– 1980 Deng Xiaoping emerges as Chinese leader– Four Modernizations
• Agriculture, industry, defense, science and technology
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Massacre in Tiananmen Square
• June 4th, 1989– Students demand
democracy• Martial law attacked
and killed hundreds
– Stamping out Protest
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Images from the Tiananmen Square Uprising1989
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Marches, hunger strikes, sit-ins, and more, for democratic change.
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Lady of Liberty sculpture, facing Mao.
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Tanks roll in.
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Clearing the square, as the world watches.
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Order restored, but at what cost?
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Transfer of Hong Kong
• Great Britain hands over Hong Kong to China in 1997– Ending 155 years of
colonial rule
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Beyond 2000
• What is China like right now???
• Is there a growing need for democracy???
• What are Chinese-US relations like???