Chinese Communist Revolution

1. Human and physical geography

2. Communist rise to power (1936- 1949); ,Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek), Mao Zedong

3. Communism under Mao Zedong

   a. Great Leap Forward

   b. The Cultural Revolution and the Red Guard

4. Communism under Deng Xiaoping

   a. Economic reforms—Four Modernizations

   1. Limited privatization

   2. Dismantling of Communes

   3. Introduction of “responsibility system”

   4. Foreign investment

   b . Fifth modernization—democracy

   1. April/May 1989

   2. Tiananmen Square

5. Return of Hong Kong—July 1,1997

6. The social system in communist China versus dynastic China

Suggested Documents: Maps showing expansion of communism (1936-1940); writings, speeches, memoirs of Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, and others