ANTHRO 175Q Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dust Storm, Economic Liberalism, Planned Economy
Document Summary
The surge of wealth and new wave of investment. Nobel peace prize winner liu xiaobo absent at the 2010 award ceremony empty chair/protest. Background information: the 2 pillars of communist regime. Communist revolution in the mao era (1949-78: planned economy based on public ownership: the leninist party (ccp) based on marxist ideology and elaborate organization. Socialism with chinese characteristic in the post-mao era (1978-present: mixed economy based on dual ownership, the changing ccp with political conservatism and economic liberalism, the emerging society or societal forces. Eg. land (public), apartment on the land(private) The party-state and the making of new china. The legitimacy base of ccp power and china"s search for self-strengthening and national salvation since 1840. How did the ccp mobilized the masses the case of land reform. How the ccp restructured china and built the party-state system. The long-term implications and impacts of the transformation in the 1950s.
