DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 39: Mao Zedong, Washington Consensus, International Policy Digest
Document Summary
Brief history of china: history for china goes back 4000 years and it is considered one of the first civilisations of the world, developed their own language and had civilisations built around great rivers, complex history with dynasties. Pre-colonial china (pre 19th century) is identified as the centre of the world under a tributary system: qing dynasty (1636-1912) considered as the last great empire of china. Soviet union against their common enemy japan: 1949: communist mao zedong proclaims people"s republic of china allying with the soviet. Union under communist ideologies: great leap forward (1958) under mao china began its development programme. Reform and opening up" (1978) under deng xiaoping, china begins to promote diplomacy and engage with international political economy. Globalisation and china: 1980s/90"s: privatization; contracting out; lifting price controls, protectionist policies and regulations (but state monopolies in some key sectors remained, massive amounts of western capital and intellectual property flow to emerging markets, above all to china.
