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Economic Reforms: China’s Transformation – Examine the Gradual Implementation of Market-Oriented Reforms and Opening Up Policies That Propelled China’s Economy to Become a Global Powerhouse, Lifting Millions out of Poverty but Also Creating New Social Challenges.

Economic Reforms: China's Transformation – From Mao Suit to Made in China (and Everything in Between!) (A Lecture in Three Acts) (Professor Plum, Dressed in a slightly rumpled tweed jacket…
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The Great Leap Forward: Utopian Dream, Tragic Reality – Explore the Ideological Goals and the Catastrophic Outcomes of the Great Leap Forward, Demonstrating the Dangers of Central Planning and the immense Human Cost of Ideological Extremism.

The Great Leap Forward: Utopian Dream, Tragic Reality – A Lecture on Ideological Extremism (Professor emerges, slightly disheveled, clutching a well-worn copy of "Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung" and a…
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The Founding of the People’s Republic of China: The Communist Era Begins – Explore the Establishment of the PRC and the Beginning of Decades of Communist Rule, Marked by Social and Political Transformation, Economic Development, And Periodic Upheaval.

The Founding of the People's Republic of China: The Communist Era Begins – A Lecture (Professor snappily enters the stage, adjusting their glasses and beaming at the audience. A backdrop…
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The Second Sino-Japanese War: Resistance and Alliance – Examine China’s Resilient Resistance to Japanese Invasion, Despite Internal Divisions, And The Formation of a (Uneasy) United Front Between the Nationalists and Communists to Fight the Common Enemy.

The Second Sino-Japanese War: Resistance and Alliance – A Lecture (Imagine Professor Chen, a historian with a mischievous twinkle in his eye and a penchant for historical analogies involving dumplings,…