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MODERN HISTORY OF CHINA

Objective chronological listing of significant events leading up to modern China.

1977 - 1989

• Rise of Deng Xiaoping (1977)
  
• Chiang Ching-kuo becomes President of Republic of China. (1978)
  
• Economic reform and the Four Modernizations (1978)
  
• United States recognizes the People's Republic of China (1979)
  
• War between the People's Republic of China and Vietnam (1979)
  
• The Gang of Four on trial (1980)
  
• Creation of Special Administrative Regions (1982)
  
• One Country – Two Systems (1984)
  
• Elections in the Republic of China (1986)
  
• Martial Law Revoked in the Republic of China (1987)
  
• Democracy movement in Beijing (1989)