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Population pressure
[http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2012/09/09/population-and-the-challenge-of-chinese-growth/](<a href='http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2012/09/09/population-and-the-challenge-of-chinese-growth/)' >Population pressure</a>Chinese women give birth 1.8 times in their lifetime. It is debatable whether raw census data can be effectively used to estimate total fertility rate (TFR), so most people prefer to believe that the fertility rate is as low as 1.4. This is not only lower than the average of less developed countries (excluding the least developed countries), but also lower than the average level of developed countries. A fertility rate of 1.4 puts China among countries with the lowest fertility. -
Opium war 1839-1842
Opium warDaoguang sent his official Lin Zexu to the south to try to stop the opium smoking there. Lin Zexu destroyed tons of opium. The British generals got really angry, and brought the British navy to shoot cannons at Chinese port cities in the Opium Wars. The British guns and cannons were much better than Chinese weapons, and by 1842 Daoguang had to surrender. To end the war, China paid Britain a lot of money, and also agreed to let British traders use Chinese ports without being under Chinese laws. -
Opium war 2 (1856-1860)
Opium war2The Second Opium War, the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the Arrow War, or the Anglo-French expedition to China, was a war pitting the British Empire and the Second French Empire against the Qing Empire of China, lasting from 1856 to 1860. It was fought over similar issues as the First Opium War. -
Japan take control of Formosa
Japan take control of FormosaThe Japanese sought to take control of their new possession, while the Republican forces fought to resist Japanese occupation. The Japanese landed near Keelung on the northern coast of Taiwan on 29 May 1895, and in a five-month campaign swept southwards to Tainan. Although their advance was slowed by guerrilla activity, the Japanese defeated the Formosan forces (a mixture of regular Chinese units and local Hakka militias) whenever they attempted to make a stand. -
Boxer Rebellion
Boxer RebellionIn 1900, in what became known as the Boxer Rebellion (or the Boxer Uprising), a Chinese secret organization called the Society of the Righteous and Harmonious Fists led an uprising in northern China against the spread of Western and Japanese influence there. The rebels, referred to by Westerners as Boxers because they performed physical exercises they believed would make them able to withstand bullets, killed foreigners and Chinese Christians and destroyed foreign property. -
Fall of the Qing
-Population pressure
+ too many people
+ not enough food
-Weak Government
-Opium addiction
-Nationalism grows (believe in country)
-Europeans Arrive
-Opium trade
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The beginning of the republic
The Qing Dynasty has fallen
Sun Yixian takes over as President – he hopes to build China through –The people, Nationalism and Democracy. -
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A new China
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Warlord Era (1916-1928)
Warlord eraThe Warlord Era was a decade-long period when national authority in China disintegrated and the country broke apart into a jigsaw of regions, controlled by powerful local leaders and cliques. Warlordism was in large part a culmination of the internal divisions that had emerged in late Qing China. Warlordism began to unfold during the last years of Qing rule, as the dynasty’s authority quickly waned and local leaders moved to increase their own power. -
The long march (1935-1936)
In October 1934, during a civil war, embattled Chinese Communists broke through Nationalist enemy lines and began an epic flight from their encircled headquarters in southwest China. Known as the Long March, the trek lasted a year and covered some 4,000 miles (or more, by some estimates). The Long March marked the emergence of Mao Zedong (1893-1976) as the undisputed leader of the Chinese Communists. -
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Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong was a member of the Communist Party from the farming communities. He believed that China’s strength was with the peasant/farming population. He soon became a leader of the party. -
Communist took control
In 1927 –Jiang Jeishi turned his Nationalist troops against the Communists – their growing support was a threat to his power.
After WW2 – Communism grew in Eastern Europe and support for the Chinese communists grew, more and more Chinese joined the communist party.
In 1949 the Communists defeated the Nationalists.
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One hundred flowers campaign (1956-1957)
One hundred flowers campaignWhile the first Five-Year Plan resulted in strong national economic growth, its impact on many Chinese was not so positive. The rise in industrial production led to increased urbanisation. By 1956, the number of people living in cities had almost doubled from before the communist takeover, and there were shortages of food, housing and consumer goods. Mao became the public figure of the Hundred Flowers campaign, speaking and writing about it regularly. -
The Great Leap Forward (1958-1961)
The Great Leap Forward was Mao’s attempt to modernize China’s economy.
One that, by 1988, would rival America.
Forced farmers to work in “communes” instead of for themselves
Move from farming to industry. so economy died
not have enough food
20-40 million people died.
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The Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)
-Tries to attract the young people.
-Close school
-Destroy evidence
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The Reforms of Deng Xiaoping
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Chairman Mao Zedong died
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Tiananmen Square
In Tiananmen Square students and other people throughout China organized to protest the lack of political freedom in China -
Deng Xiaoping died
Xiaoping died on February 19, 1997.
