2. Answer these questions in
any order:
-What are the people
doing?
-What do you see about
modernization?
-What colors are used?
-Why do you think this painting is
entitled, Don’t Depend on the
Gods?
-What do you see in the
slide?
-What does the painting suggest
about how the artist feels about
the future of China?
11. The Danshan, Sichuan Province Nonguang Village Public Affairs Bulletin Board in September 2005
noted that RMB 25,000 in social compensation fees were owed in 2005. Thus far 11,500 RMB had
been collected leaving another 13,500 RMB to be collected.
12. Rural Sichuan roadside sign: "It is forbidden to discriminate against, mistreat or abandon baby
girls."
13. II. Fall of Dynastic China
•2,000 years of dynasties
•Emperors had a “mandate from heaven”
14. The Forbidden City, home to the Emperors of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Beijing.
16. •Opium Wars
•British wanted to trade
opium, eventually defeated
the Chinese and gained
access.
•The Qing dynasty ends
•War costs
•Corruption
•Taxation
•British influence
17. Bulletin posted by the Beijing Military Control
Commission on the cancellation of the right of foreign
countries to station armies in Beijing and on the recovery
of foreign military camps in Beijing.
18. At the 1924 inauguration of the Whampoa Military Academy, Sun Yat-sen delivered a
speech that would later become the lyrics of the ROC's national Anthem.
•Sun Yat-sen
19. III. The Communist Revolution
a. Rise of Mao Zedong
b. Civil War
c. Communist Victory 1949
20. •The Rise of Mao Zedong and the Communist Party
•Civil War in China – Mao Zedong vs. Chiang Kai-shek, Communists vs. Nationalists
•Victory of the Communists in 1949
"The People's
Liberation Army is
A School of Mao
Zedong thought.”
27. Like the Soviets, China supported Communists movements around the world. Guo Moruo,
vice-chairman of Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, pictured with Fidel
Castro in Cuba.
28. Like the Soviets, China supported Communists movements around the world. Guo Moruo,
vice-chairman of Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, pictured with Fidel
Castro in Cuba.
31. V. The Great Leap Forward
a. What was the Great Leap?
b. Results
Propaganda poster of the
steel production objective.
The text reads: "Take steel
as the key link, leap forward
in all fields".
32. After the Beidaihe Meeting, 90 million people in the country got involved in “backyard” steelmaking, resulting in
tremendous waste of manpower and resources. Small blast furnaces such as those shown here could be seen every-
where in the country.
34. VI. The Cultural Revolution
a. What was the Cultural Revolution?
b. Aftermath of the Cultural Revolution
Smash the Old World!
"Let the new socialistic performing arts occupy every stage.", 1967
46. The Unknown Rebel - This famous photo, taken on 5 June 1989 by photographer Jeff Widener, depicts a lone
protester who tried to stop four advancing tanks until he was pulled into the crowd by several onlookers.
