Marked Beijing

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

China since 1949

Since 1949 the People’s Republic of China has gone through the famine of the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and, from 1978, economic reforms that made it the world’s largest manufacturer.

Place
Beijing · Shenzhen · ShanghaiAsia
Laid out as
A theme across timeOne idea followed through the eras it crosses.
Lessons
7 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. I1949
  2. IILand reform
  3. IIIThe Great Leap Forward and famine
  4. IVThe Cultural Revolution
  5. VReform and opening
  6. VITiananmen, 1989
  7. VIIThe workshop of the world

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Mao Zedong
  • Zhou Enlai
  • Deng Xiaoping
  • Jiang Qing

Objects

  • Little Red Books
  • Propaganda posters

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1949 to now. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?