"Capitalism comes to China"

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Following Mao's death, the new Chinese leadership began reforms which included making more consumer goods available. This wasn't exactly Glasnost or the road to political freedom and democracy many were hoping for, but the beginning of China's gradual change from a command economy to a capitalist one.

The Communist Party was still firmly in power, but private enterprise was to be encouraged and Chinese people could enjoy the dubious pleasures of Western luxuries. Vive la Revolution.