CHINA AFTER TIANANMEN

1. Today's lecture:
   1. Today looking at the Tiananmen Square movement in China in 1989.
   2. Questions:
      1. What led up to this protest movement for democracy, and what has happened since then?
      2. How do the Chinese feel about democratization and marketization today?
      3. Do Asian cultures have different ideas about things like democracy, order, freedom, and prosperity than we do?

    

2. Background History
   1. 1919: May 4th movement
   2. 1949: Communists come to power
   3. 1968-1976: Cultural Revolution
   4. 1980's: Deng Xiaoping's reforms

    

3. What led up to Tiananmen?

   **Video**

   1. Corruption, preference for sons and daughters of Party members
   2. Students share a sense of elitism:
   3. Is Democracy a Goddess or a new refrigerator?
4. China today
   1. Split between politics and economics after Tiananmen
   2. Flurry of entrepreneurial activity
      1. Vast increase in consumer goods
      2. Influx of global culture
   3. "We're too busy to care about politics"
   4. Falun Gong