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China Today series
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David S. Goodman, Class in Contemporary China
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Orna Naftali, Children in China
Eva Pils, Human Rights in China
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Pun Ngai, Migrant Labor in China
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Nancy E. Riley, Population in China
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Judith Shapiro, China's Environmental Challenges, 2nd edition
Alvin Y. So & Yin-wah Chu, The Global Rise of China
Teresa Wright, Party and State in Post-Mao China
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Adam Yuet Chau
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Copyright Adam Yuet Chau 2019
The right of Adam Yuet Chau to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in accordance with the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
First published in 2019 by Polity Press
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ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-7915-0
ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-7916-7(pb)
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Chau, Adam Yuet., author.
Title: Religion in China : ties that bind / Adam Yuet Chau.
Description: Medford, MA : Polity, 2019. | Series: China today | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018045222 (print) | LCCN 2018051512 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509535682 (Epub) | ISBN 9780745679150 (hardback) | ISBN 9780745679167 (pbk.)
Subjects: LCSH: ChinaReligion.
Classification: LCC BL1803 (ebook) | LCC BL1803 .C43 2019 (print) | DDC 200.951dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018045222
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To my grandparents
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Chronology
| 1911 | Fall of the Qing dynasty |
| 1912 | Republic of China established under Sun Yat-sen |
| 1927 | Split between Nationalists (KMT) and Communists (CCP); civil war begins |
| 19345 | CCP under Mao Zedong evades KMT in Long March |
| 193745 | Invasion of China by Japan |
| 19459 | Civil war between KMT and CCP resumes |
| October 1949 | KMT retreats to Taiwan; Mao founds People's Republic of China (PRC) |
| 19503 | Korean War |
| 19537 | First Five-Year Plan; PRC adopts Soviet-style economic planning |
| 1954 | First constitution of the PRC and first meeting of the National People's Congress |
| 19567 | Hundred Flowers Movement, a brief period of open political debate |
| 1957 | Anti-Rightist Movement |
| 195860 | Great Leap Forward, an effort to transform China through rapid industrialization and collectivization |
| March 1959 | Tibetan Rebellion in Lhasa; Dalai Lama flees to India |
| 195961 | Three Hard Years, widespread famine with tens of millions of deaths |
| 1960 | SinoSoviet split |
| 1962 | SinoIndian border conflict |
| October 1964 | First PRC atomic bomb detonation |
| 196676 | Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution; severe suppression of religion and destruction of religious buildings and artifacts |
| February 1972 | President Richard Nixon visits China; Shanghai Communiqu pledges to normalize USChina relations |
| September 1976 | Death of Mao Zedong |
| October 1976 | Ultra-Leftist Gang of Four arrested and sentenced |
| December 1978 | Deng Xiaoping assumes power; launches Four Modernizations and economic reforms |
| Late 1970s | The beginning of the revival of religious life, especially in the countryside |
| 1978 | One-child family planning policy introduced |
| 1979 | US and China establish formal diplomatic ties; Deng Xiaoping visits Washington |
| 1979 | SinoVietnam border conflict |
| 1980s98 | The blossoming of qigong (vitality-enhancing exercise) in the PRC |
| 1982 | Census reports PRC population at more than one billion |
| December 1984 | Margaret Thatcher co-signs SinoBritish Joint Declaration agreeing to return Hong Kong to China in 1997 |
| Late 1980s | The end of Martial Law and the liberalization of religious life in Taiwan |
| 1989 | Tiananmen Square protests culminate in June 4 military crackdown |
| 1992 | Deng Xiaoping's Southern Inspection Tour re-energizes economic reforms |
| 19932002 | Jiang Zemin is president of PRC, continues economic growth agenda |
| 1998 | The suppression of qigong practices, including the Falungong |
| 2000s onwards | The rise of the Confucian Classics movement |
| November 2001 | WTO accepts China as member |
| 200212 | Hu Jintao, General-Secretary CCP (and President of PRC from 2003 to 2013) |
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