Features
- Authoritative and comprehensive text, written by experienced IB History examiners, covering one topic per title, to help students adopt an investigative and thorough approach to their study.
- Activities throughout the chapters to encourage an exploratory and inquiring approach to historical learning.
- A wide range of primary and secondary sources to develop students’ analytical skills.
- Opportunities for balanced historical debate to inspire engagement with multiple historical perspectives and interpretations.
- Links to Theory of Knowledge concepts to stimulate reflective discussion.
- Paper 3 exam-style questions to help improve student performance and provide preparation for assessment.
Contents
- 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. The consolidation of the communist state, 1949-55:
- 2.1. How did the Communists establish their political rule in the years 1949-55?
- 2.2. What were the main economic policies during the period 1949-55?
- 2.3. What social reforms did the Communists implement during the years 1949-55?
- Chapter 3. Mao's Revolution, 1956-61:
- 3.1. Why was the Hundred Flowers' Campaign launched?
- 3.2. What were the main features of the 'Great Leap Forward'?
- 3.3. What were the immediate consequences of the 'Great Leap Forward'?
- Chapter 4. Power Struggles and the Cultural Revolution, 1962-71: 4.1. How did Mao begin to re-establish his political leadership after 1961?
- 4.2. What were the main features of the Cultural Revolution?
- 4.3. Why was there a new power struggle during 1970-71?
- Chapter 5. Foreign policy, 1949-1976:
- 5.1. What were the main features of Communist China's early foreign policy?
- 5.2. Why did a serious rift develop between China and the Soviet Union in the 1960s?
- 5.3. What was the significance of Communist China's rapprochement with the USA in the 1970s?
- Chapter 6. The struggle for power, 1972-82:
- 6.1. Why were there tensions within the CCP from 1972-75?
- 6.2. What was Mao's legacy?
- 6.3. What were the main stages of the power struggle 1976–82?
- Chapter 7. Deng's Economic Revolution (1976-1989):
- 7.1. What economic policies were followed by Hua in the period 1976–78?
- 7.2. What were the main features of Deng's 'Revolution', 1979–89?
- 7.3. How successful were Deng's economic reforms?
- Chapter 8. Political Developments under Deng, 1976-89:
- 8.1. What was Deng's political approach in the period 1976–79?
- 8.2. Why did political unrest re-emerge in the period 1980–87?
- 8.3. What led to the Tiananmen Square Massacre of June 1989?
- Chapter 9. Developments in China, 1989-2005:
- 9.1. How did China's politics change after 1989?
- 9.2. What were the main economic developments after 1989?
- 9.3. How far have China's leaders created a 'Harmonious Society'?
- 9.4. How did China's relations with the rest of the world develop after 1989?
- 9.5. To what extent was China still communist by 2005?
- Chapter 10. Exam practice
- Further Reading
- Index.

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History for the IB Diploma Paper 3: The People's Republic of China (1949–2005)
