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| term used to define the permanent professional members of a party, especially the Communist world |
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| derogatory term used to label moderate CCP leaders during the Cultural Revolution |
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| Chinese philosophical and religious tradition stressing, among other things, order and heirarchy |
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| portions of China, Japan, and Korea where European law operated during the late 19th and early 20th centuries |
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| a policy first introduced by Zhou Enlai and championed by Deng Xiaoping, focusing on developing industry, military, agriculture, and science in China |
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| Chinese Communist principle that stressed "learning from the masses" |
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| prerevolutionary Chinese leaders who controlled a region or other relatively small part of the country |
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| nationalist president of China before 1949 and later of the government in exile in Taiwan |
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| defacto ruler of China from the late 1970s-1997 |
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| President of China and successor to Deng Xiaoping |
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| chair of the CCP and head of the PRC from 1949 until his death in 1976 |
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| President of China after the 1911 revolution |
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| Central Advisory Committee |
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| informal group of senior CHinese Communist leaders in the 1980s |
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| supposedly the most important body in a Communist party; its influence declined as it grew in size and the party needed daily leadership |
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| Central Military Commission |
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| the only legal party in China which has run the country since 1949 |
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| the period of upheavel in Chna from the mid 1960s-mid 1970s |
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| protests by Chinese students and others that culminaed in the Tiananmen Square disaster of 1989 in Bejing |
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| Chinese spiritual movement supressed by the government since the late 1990s |
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| radical leaders in China during the cultural revolution led by Jiang Ching, Mao's wife |
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| failed Chinese campaign of the late 1950s to speed up development |
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| the Chinese Nationalist Party, which was nominated in power from 1911-1949; now in charge of Taiwan |
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| retreat by the CCP in teh mid 1930s which turned into one of its strengths in recruiting support |
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| Chinese protest triggered by opposition to the Treaty of Versailles; a major step in the path leading to the creation and victory of the CCP |
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| students and others who supported Mao during the Cultural Revolution |
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| debate in China pitting ideologies against supportes of economic development |
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| tensions between the USSR and China that rocked the Communist world |
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| cities and regions in China in which foreigners are allower to invest |
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