The documentary for the following questions: How China Got Rich | ENDEVR Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAYRd8IqAxg 1. What was “the century of humiliation” and how did events during that period hold back modernization and economic progress in China?
The documentary for the following questions: How China Got Rich | ENDEVR Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAYRd8IqAxg
1. What was “the century of humiliation” and how did events during that period hold back modernization
and economic progress in China?
2. Why was Deng Xiaoping such a pivotal figure and the focus of the film? How did his ideas differ from
those of Mao Zedong? How did this new thinking launch China into an era of economic growth?
3. Where did Deng Xiaoping go on his “fact finding missions” in 1978 and 1979? How did these trips
influence his plan for China’s future?
4. How was the US able to begin opening up relations with Communist China in the 1970s when the Cold
War was still far from over?
5. What was the most important technology that the US shared with China in the 1980s?
6. Guangzhou in the Pearl River Delta region was the “testing area” for China’s first experiment with
foreign investment and a free market. Why this location? What was the first business established there
that “let some Capitalism in?”
7. Rapid industrialization and economic growth require lots of labor—cheap labor. Where did the
workers who fueled China’s growth come from? [And why might this be a self-limiting resource?]
8. Communism is a political doctrine that aims to create a classless society. It is also an economic system
in which private property is replaced with public ownership and communal control of the means of
production (mines, mills, and factories) and natural resources. After watching this documentary, do
you think China is still a Communist country? Why or why not?
9. What new technologies is China investing in that could “save” or at least improve the world?
10. What less positive aspects of China’s economic and political reality would you want to learn more
about to further develop a balanced understanding of the world’s next superpower?
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