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 * __ Deng Xiaoping’s Economic Reform __**

Different from Mao, Deng is a revolutionary pragmatist. He realized that Mao's romantic idealism put the Chinese into poverty and disillusions, which would lead to the end of the Chinese Communist Party. You have to gain people's support in order to maintain your rule. To keep the CCP's rule, you have to improve people's daily life. Learning from Mao's failure, Deng was determined to launch an economic reform and open China's door to the world. It is very difficult to put a huge country with more than 1.3 billion people into a new direction and make them follow you from their heart. The following movie will display how Deng's Economic Reform went and how he achieved his objectives by overcoming endless challenges.


 * Questions ** :
 * Why did Deng Xiaoping launch the Economic Reform?
 * What are achievements of the Economic Reform?
 * What kind of difficulties/challenges did Deng have during the Economic Reform?
 * What were Deng's means to help him reach his ends?
 * Why did Deng's Economic Reform receive positive feedback from China and the world?
 * What is difference between Mao and Deng?

PPT:
 * Reading: ** Chapters 37, 38, 40 and 41
 * Movies: **
 * China’s Capitalist Revolution
 * China: A Century of Revolution part 3 (1976 – 1997)
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 * Presentation on China's economic development at grassroot level by Peter Hessler