History 486
Lecture #12

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Passing the Mantle:  From Jiang to Deng

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I. Introduction:  Repercussions of Tiananmen

II.  Deng's Policies
       A. Shift from the Past
              1. Deng's New Direction
                     - Break down urban-rural split
                     - Solicited investments from overseas Chinese
              2. Internal Migration
                     - 100 million
              3. From "Command Economy" to "Market Socialism"
                     - market environment:  supply/demand pressures
                     - more realistic pricing of raw materials/energy

       B. Legacy for the future
              1. Level of Living
                     - 25% of Chinese = middle class
                     - 42 billion below subsistence
              2. Disparities
                     - NOT clearly urban-rural or coastal-inland
                     - Rural: agriculture vs. small-scale enterprise
                     - Urban:  state enterprises vs. non-state enterprises
              3. Now and Then


       C. Evaluation of Deng (1905 -1997)
              1. Different?
                     - No cult of Deng
                     - Less "hands on" more regularized political procedures
              2. Same?
                     - Strong personal relationships
                     - "stamp of approval" rule?

III. Jiang Zemin (1926 - present)
       A. Early Career
              1. 1980-1982 - Deputy Director Import/Export Administration (Shenzhen)
              2. 1982 - Member of CCP Central Committee
              3. 1985-1989 - Mayor of Shanghai
                     - "flower vase"
                     -  foreign investment
              4. 1989 - CCP General Secretary
              5. 1990 - Chairman of the Central Military Commission (re-elected 1992/1998)
              6. 1992 - General Secretary of the Fourteenth CCP Central Committee (1998)
              7. 1993 - President of the PRC (1998)
       B. Following in Deng's (living) "footsteps"
              1. Democratizing China
                     - 1989 Administrative Litigation Law
                     - 1994 Prison Law
                     - 1996 Criminal Procedure Law
              2. Single Aim:  Strengthen Authority of CCP

IV. Hu Jintao
              1. World views[Time Cover story/Kissinger on Hu]
              2. Defining a Fourth Generation style of rule?