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Chapter 15: The People's Republic of China and North Korea: Ideology and Nationalism, 1949–2007

Debates

Debating the Sino-Soviet split

Discussion Questions

  1. Account for the radicalization of CCP modernization policy between 1950 and 1960.
  2. What effect did Khrushchev's ‘de-Stalinization’ speech of 1956 have on Chinese and North Korean politics?
  3. Account for Kim Il-Sung's emergence as the DPRK's paramount leader.
  4. “The Sino-Soviet split was the logical culmination of China's century-long struggle against imperialism.” Discuss.
  5. Why, and with what consequences, did China embark on a more radical line in foreign policy between 1963 and 1965?
  6. Why did Mao launch the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution in 1966?
  7. Why did the People's Republic of China agree to the rapprochement with the United States in 1971–72?
  8. “When Mao died in 1976 his only legacy was the political and economic devastation of China.” Discuss.
  9. Account for the rise and fall of the 1989 democracy movement in China.
  10. Account for the continuing existence of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea

Weblinks

http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/toc.html
A website that covers the history of China from Ancient times to the present. Informative and fairly up to date.

http://www.chinapage.com/history1.html
Another history of China website that is partly in Mandarin.

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/
A companion website to a major TV series with lots of links to China in the Cold War.

http://jir.janes.com/public/jir/chinawatch.shtml
Numerous links to information on the Chinese military establishment.

http://en.ce.cn/
Website that publishes information on China's economic developments.