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Final Econ 304 Jones spring 2010
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Economics
Undergraduate 3
06/06/2010

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China under Mao
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led Great proletarian Cultural revolution (1966-1969) and Great Leap Forward (which failed and resulted in famine)

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led great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, 1966-1969 or textbook says 79?
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Mao Zedong

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his Great Leap Forward failed, famine resulted
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Mao Zedong

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pursued egalitarianism and regional self-sufficiency
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Mao

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supported stalinism against his contemporary "revisionists" khruschev and tito
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Mao Zedong

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led the nationalist Guomingdang to power in 1928, ending period of Warlordism

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Chiang Kai-shek

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wrote book which forecast a great future for china if china followed confucianism
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Chiang Kai-Shek

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campaigned against the "four olds"
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Mao Zedong

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served as chief of state after Deng Xiaoping
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Jiang Zemin. the Hu Jintao

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vilified government assistance, glorified wealth accumulation

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first chief of state of the ROC

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Chiang Kai-shek

 

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constitutional president of China, one of WWII allies
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Chiang kai-shek

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GPCR
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Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

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TVE

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Town and Village Enterprises

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SEZ

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Special enterprise Zone

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CCP
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Chinese Communist Party

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EPZ

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Export Processing Zones

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this dynamic form is the unique innovation of the self-proclaimed socialist market economy (added efficiency requirement to socialism)

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SEZ

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This grey out of the May Fourth Movement of 1919 which protested turning Chinese Territory over to Japan. (1921)

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CCP

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assaulted traditional culture and social values

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GPCR

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organized countryside into large communes

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GPCR

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rural industrial enterprises owned by local units of government, the towns and villages that formerly comprised the communes and lower level brigades
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TVE

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associated with laissez faire, wu wei (no action)

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Taoism

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supported absolute power of the authoritarian state

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Legalism

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opposed commerce, industrialization, and relations witht he outside world. wanted foreign barbarians to kowtow and pay tribute.

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official confucianism

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state-owned firms operating in competitive markets adjusted by a central planner

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market socialism

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TVE's, reforms, looser rules on private enterprise- CCP declared this the desired economic reform

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socialist market economy

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written by confucius

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Analects

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also called quotations of chairman mao

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the "Little Red Book"

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written by Lao-tzu

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Tao Te Ching (two philosophies)

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what are the Four Modernizations
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agriculture

industry

science and technology

and national defense

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forced all landlords to sell to tenants in exchange for government bonds

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Land-to-tiller program

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resulted in deceleration of industrial output growth and a catastrphe in agriculture, the worst famine anywhere ever

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The Great Leap Forward

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retreated to Taiwan when Mao Zedong came to power on the mainland

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Guomindang

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policy shift which resulted in growth in agriculture and industry

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Period of Adjustment 1962-1965

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China currently faces problems including all of the following
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major energy/environmental crises

international criticism of its undervalued currency

rising income inequalities

continuing re-assimilation of Hong Kong and perhaps, eventually Taiwan

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The US would like its yuan to float
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PRC

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controlled by Japan from 1895-1945

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ROC

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has promised (in 1984) in a joint declaration "one country, two systems"
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PRC

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its EPZ's may be models for PRC's SEZ's
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ROC

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this nation is trying to limit its steel exports
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ROC

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Would like to absorb Taiwan

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PRC

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Economy (indicative planning) similar to ROK and Japan
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ROC

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many small businesses, high savings rate

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ROC?

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one of the world's most laissez faire economies, even now
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Hong Kong

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its three gorges dam project is opposed by the WTO and environmentalists

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PRC

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T/F? The household responsibility system resulted in decreased food output and declines in rural income

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FALSE

resulted in improved food output and increases in rural income

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T/F? The three chinese religions, like those of Japan, are Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism, the latter originating in India and arriving in china by way of the Silk Road
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True

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T/F?

A student uprising was violently supressed in tiananmen Square in the capital, Beijing (Peking) in 1989

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True

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T/F?

the communists are seen by the Chinese as the latest dynasty and are subject to a rise and fall cycle associated with previous dynasties

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True

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T/F?

After the Opium Wars, Great Britain was banished from hong Kong and lost its right to import opium into China

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False

GB imposed humiliating port treaties, took over Hong Kong, and GAINED the right to import opium into China

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