China in World History

142 China in World History years, some intellectuals in Beijing felt secure enough to write critical and satirical essays about ...

The People’s Republic of China 143 secret anti-Maoist sentiment. Red Guard factions quickly became polarized as each one tried t ...

144 China in World History with the peasants and to be reformed through hard labor, just as they had sent their victims to a sim ...

The People’s Republic of China 145 Qing, and the other leaders of the Cultural Revolution blamed this open defi ance of the Comm ...

146 China in World History for wrongfully persecuting millions during the Cultural Revolution.^5 Hua Guofeng had few strong supp ...

The People’s Republic of China 147 and advertising for anything but revolutionary politics was forbidden. Romantic love was rega ...

148 China in World History Party. On the one hand, he hoped to free people from the deadly politi- cal campaigns of the Maoist e ...

The People’s Republic of China 149 the much-anticipated visit of Soviet leader and reformer Mikhail Gor- bachev to China. Both D ...

150 China in World History Everyone publicly associated with the demonstrations was ordered arrested. Although the government cu ...

The People’s Republic of China 151 and skilled workers, the country’s economic takeoff may have been the most important single w ...

152 China in World History 1.3 billion people today, China will probably have 1.5 billion by 2015, in part because the one-child ...

The People’s Republic of China 153 could present serious problems. Should an economic crisis lead to rapid infl ation or rising ...

154 China in World History on both sides. The United States often criticizes China’s human rights record, but since the 1990s, e ...

The People’s Republic of China 155 Chinese society today is more open to outside infl uences than at any time since the Tang dyn ...

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10,000–8,000bce Beginnings of settled agriculture in the north China plain 5000–1500bce Neolithic settlements grow in sophistica ...

158 Chronology 907–960 Five Dynasties period of division and civil war 960–1279 Song dynasty; growing prosperity and trade; revi ...

Chronology 159 1945–1949 Communist-Nationalist Party negotiations break down; civil war begins in 1947; Communist forces quickly ...

160 Chronology 2001 China becomes a member of the World Trade Organization 2003 Hu Jintao succeeds Jiang Zemin as president and ...

PREFACE Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (New York: Norton, 1999), 324. Karl A. Wittfogel, O ...