History 1601E Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Hua Guofeng, Deng Xiaoping, Cultural Revolution

• School: Western University
• Department: History
• Course: History 1601E
• Professor: Cary Takagaki

Document Summary

Give up land ownership (good news for farmer) Encouraged students to walk out of the classroom if lecture is bored (gained support of young students) Produce a set of amount crop and sell it to government, everything else can be sold at free market. The open door policy: trading partners: japan, hong kong, us, Socialism with chinese characteristics explains the trade with us (stress the idea that this is not capitalism) Still choose socialism, because distribute to each according to his work will not create an excessive gap in wealth , capitalism only enrich less than 10% of the population. Doesn"t care whether it"s socialism or capitalism, as long as it improves economy . Deng never promised democracy, he promised the four modernization. Students and intellectuals thought once the economy grew, democracy would automatically follow (that"s what they saw happened in soviet union and other european countries) Reminded china that a strong economy is important for socialize to stay.