INR 3003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Ping-Pong Diplomacy, Backyard Furnace, Deng Xiaoping

• School: FSU
• Department: International Affairs
• Course: INR 3003
• Professor: Whitney Bendeck

Document Summary

Opium wars, 1st sino japanese war and revolution: nationalist period, people"s republic of china = communist era, mao zedong: his policy was a disastrous policy. Chairman mao zedong: head of the communist party (redo. For mores deaths than hitler and stalin combined) Soviet and china: ussr wanted china to follow the soviet model: relations with the ussr, great leap forward; sino-soviet split, and the cultural revolution: agricultural production ion. China fell and it was nothing what the adds said it was. Deng xiaoping: disagreed with the great leap forward and zedong"s idea. Cultural revolution: it was a good maoist community; maos vision was the one that mattered and the cultural revolution was designed to pure china into a maoist culture. The cultural revolution was a mess because the kids were the ones who were in power of reaping havoc. However the cultural revolution did not end until mao died in 1976.