History of Dalian
Introduction
Unlike many of China's cities, Dalian, as anything more than a fishing village, is quite young. Its development into the city we have today dates from the colonial period. This is where we shall begin, with Treaty Ports and Colonialism. After 1949, and the ascendancy of the Chinese Communist Party, attitudes in China toward development and urbanization changed (reverted?). This brings us to the next section: Coastal Cities, Dalian, and Mao. After Mao's death, policy again changed. One of these changes was the creation of the Economic and Technical Development Zones, including that in Dalian, in 1984. The final section explores recent history in 1984-?.