Pre Communist themes:
Confucianism
(familial political authority, bureaucracy, morals)
hydraulic theory
of government and political culture
many people,
little land
36 strategies,
Wittfogel, Needham
dynastic cycle
opium war
1911 Revolution
May 4, 1919
Republic of
China, Anti-Japanese War
Mao Period
long march
land reform
agricultural
collectivization, MATs, LAPCs, HPCs, Communes (3 levels of ownership)
First Five Year
Plan
100 Flowers,
Anti rightist
Great Leap Forward,
Communes, 3 bad year
Hu Kou
Cultural Revolution
Crash of Lin
Biao
Qing Ming demonstrations
(Zhou Enlai, 1976)
Death of Mao
(1976)
Gang of four
Post-Mao
Period
Third Plenum of 11th
Central Committee
Four Modernizations,
market mechanisms, responsibility system
open door, joint
ventures, Shenzhen,
One Country,
Two Systems
Democracy Wall,
Four Cardinal Principles,
Anti Spiritual
Pollution Campaign
T iananmen Square
Deng's Trip
South
iron rice bowl
market Leninism
WTO (World Trade Organization)
People:
Qin Shi Huang Di
Li Bai, Du Fu
Qian Lung
Ci Xi (Tzu Hsi)
Chiang K'ai-shek
Sun Yat-sen
Mao Zedong era:
Zhou Enlai
Liu Shaoqi
Hua Guofeng
Lin Biao
Gang of Four: Jiang Qing
( Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan,
Wang Hungwen)
Deng Xiaoping era:
Zhao Ziyang
Hu Yaobang
Li Peng
Jiang Zemin era:
Chen Yun
Wei Jingsheng
Zhu Rongji
Post-Jiang era
Hu Jintao
Wen Jiabao
Essays
1. Discuss the structure of the Chinese Government and the Chinese Communist Party. What is the relationship between them? Include in your analysis references to both the Party and Government constitutions.
2. In the Chinese government constitution, what provisions seem democratic? What provisions seem to support an authoritarian political system?
3. What were the themes of the Mao Zedong period of China? What are some of the key incidents (or movements) that characterize this period?
4. What were the themes of the Deng Xiaoping period of China? What are some of the key incidents (or movements) that characterize this period?
5. Compare the "4 Modernizations" and the "4 Cardinal Principles." Describe the political strategy if both are used at the same time.
6. What features from China's past influence its political culture today. Include influences from Confucius , from China's natural environment, and from its encounter with the West.