PS 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Xi Jinping, Glasnost, Mao Zedong

• School: App State
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PS 1200
• Professor: Curtis Ryan

Document Summary

Rise of modern china: china"s history if full of conflict with other nations, and in most cases, they ended up losing. o. European wars (1830s & 1840s: war with japan (1890s, boxer rebellion (1900) Civil war japanese invasion civil war continues. The nationalists took a very large loss due to the japanese invasion, but the communists took the time to train and equip themselves ( the long march ). Mao (and his guerilla warfare) resumed after the japanese invasion and defeated the weak. Communist china: mao zedong (1949-1976): the father of communist china . Great leap forward (1958-1962): a (failed) attempt to jump start industrialization in china. Led to massive famine in china and the industrialization did not work. Mao blamed this on counter-revolutionaries (including sparrows). Cultural revolution (1966-1976): mao"s attempt to get younger people educated to become future revolutionaries. A purge of many of the leaders of china who were viewed as not revolutionary enough.