Wed.+March+14

Unlike Mao, Deng is a revolutionary pragmatist. He realized that Mao's romantic idealism put the Chinese into poverty and disillusionment and would lead to the end of the Chinese Communist Party. He understood that one must gain the people's support in order to maintain control and that to keep the CCP in power one had to improve people's daily lives. Learning from Mao's failure, Deng was determined to launch economic reform and open China's door to the world. It was extraordinarily difficult to re-direct a huge country of more than 1.3 billion people. This session depicts Deng's Economic Reform and how he achieved his objectives and won the hearts of the Chinese people by overcoming endless challenges. Also different from the Self-Strengthening Movement in the last half 19century, China took a pro-active approach toward the world in her Economic Reform. China entered the WTO in 2001 and hosted the Olympic Games in 2008 and the World Expo in 2010. With these events, a renaissance happened in China. China emerged into the family of the world. This is another good example to display how Chinese leaders changed a critical crisis into a good opportunity and made China move forward.
 * __Wed. March 14: Deng Xiaoping’s Economic Reform and Rising of China __**
 * Questions: **
 * Why did Deng launch the Economic Reform?
 * What are differences between Mao and Deng in their perception of the world and the relations with other countries?
 * How to understand the Tiananmen incident in 1989? Did Deng have any alternative?
 * What are the achievements of the Economic Reform?

 //China ////'s Capitalist Revolution // http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBT3rWFoU3w
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