JPA331Y1 Lecture Notes - Cultural Movement, Zhao Ziyang, Meritocracy
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Cultural movement red guard movement (depends on how you define what the cultural movement is). The argument is heavily based on your understanding of the question and how you define cultural movement . Four generations of chinese leaders ***get powerpoint for all the names for generations* First generation leaders (1949-76): mao zedong, zhou enlai, lin biao, liu shaoqi, peng dehuai: sino japanese war. Second generation (1976-92): deng xiaoping, zhao ziyang, hu yaobang, chen yun: occupied the position of authority in the cultural revolution but most were purged esp. Deng xiaopeng who was purged twice: compared to first generation, second generation leaders was less ideological and shifted from ideological struggle to pragmatic policies that promoted economic development, less ideology and more pragmatism. Third generation (1992-2003): jiang zemin, li peng, zhu rongji: were born before cultural revolution and trained as engineers in the soviet union, continued the pursuit of economic development at the expense of increasing social inequality.
