CHRONOLOGY

1976	End of the Cultural Revolution
1978	Deng Xiaoping assumes power
	Founding of the underground journal Today
1980	Reform and Opening Up
1983	Anti–Spiritual Pollution Campaign
1987	Anti–Bourgeois Liberalization Campaign
1989	Tiananmen Square Massacre
1997	Deng Xiaoping dies; Hong Kong returns to China
2000	Gao Xingjian is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature
2012	Mo Yan is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature