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China 1949-1999

Mao to Now: Fifty years after China's civil war ended, a former Life magazine correspondent who witnessed it revisits four cities conquered by Mao's peasant army. He found a country transformed--at least as much by capitalism as by communism. (Features/Special Report/The New China/Essay)(visit to the cities of Shenyang, Xuzhou, Taiyuan, and Nanjing) Roy Rowan. Fortune Oct 11, 1999 v140 i7 p250+


1. When and under what circumstances was Roy Rowan in China?




2. What was China like during his time there in the 1940s?




3. What were the major differences in Shenyang when Rowan visited in the late 1990s as compared to the late 1940s?




4. Why was Nanjing so important for the communists to capture during the civil war?




5. How does this article demonstrate the rapid change in China since the end of the Cultural Revolution?

 
 
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