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China Vocab
Vocab from Chinese unit in AP Comp/Gov.
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History
12th Grade
04/27/2012

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Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
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 Authoritarian party that has ruled China from 1949 to the present.

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Confucianism
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Philosophy attributed to Chinese sage Confucius emphasizing social harmony.

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Cultural Revolution
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Mao's radical movement launced in the 1966 to regain political control from rivals resulting in a ddecade of social and political chaos.

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Danwei (unit)
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Maoist program providing all Chinese citizens lifetime affiliation with a work unit governing all aspects of their lives.

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Democratic Centralism
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Communist Party doctrine subordinating individual members to the party organization.

 


 

The Leninist organizational structure that concentrates power in the hands of the elite.

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Deng Xiaoping
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China's paramount leader (1978-1997) who launched China's policy of economic reform and opening.

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Falun Gong
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Meditative martial arts movement founded in 1992, and was banned by the Chinese government in 1997 due to being an "evil cult."

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Floating Population
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China's roughly 150 million itinerant (traveling) peasants who left the countryside seeking urban employment.

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Great Leap Forward
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Mao's disastrous effort (1958-1959) to modernize China through localized industrial production and agricultural communes.

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Hukou (household registration)
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Maoist program that tied all Chinese to a particular geographic location.

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Household Responsibility System
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Deng's 1980's highly successful rural reform program that lowered production quotas and allowed the sale of surplus agricultural produce on the free market.

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Hundred Flowers Campaign
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Period from 1956-1957 in which Mao encouraged intellectuals to offer criticism of national policy, followed by crackdown on critics.

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Hu Jintao
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China's current Communist Party leader and head of state.

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Iron Rice Bowl
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Mao's promise of cradle-to-grave health care, work, and retirement security that has largeley disappeared under reform and opening.

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Jiang Zemin
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Deng's successor in the 1990s as Communist Party leader and head of state.

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Kuomintang (KMT)
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China's Nationalist Party founded by Sun Yat-sen and led by Chiang Kai-shek, who was overthrown by Mao's Communists in 1949 and forced to flee to Taiwan.

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Long March
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The Communist Party's 3,000-mile heroic retreat (1934-1935) to northwestern China during its civil war with the Chinese Nationalist KMT.

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Mao Zedong
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Leader of the Chinese Communist revolution who dominated Chiense politics from the founding of the PRC until his death.

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May Fourth Movement
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Student-led anti-imperialist cultural and political movement growing out of student demonstrations in Beijing on May 4th, 1919.

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National People's Congress (NPC)
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China's national legislature.

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"One Country, Two Systems"
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China's guarantee to Hong Kong of fifty-years of domestic autonomy as a "special administrative region" after the British colony was returned to China in 1997.

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People's Liberation Army (PLA)
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China's military.

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Red Guard
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Radicalized youth who served as Mao's shock troops during the Cultural Revolution.

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Reds versus Experts
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Mao's policy favoring politically indocrinated party cadres (Reds) over those people who had economic training (experts).

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Reform and Opening
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Deng's economic liberalization policy, starting in the late 1970s.

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Special Economic Zones
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Enclaves established since 1980 by the Chinese government that have offered tax breaks and other incentives to lure foreign investment.

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Sun Yat-Sen
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Founder of China's Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) and considered the father of modern China.

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"Three Represents"
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Jiang Zemin's 2001 policy co-opting private entrepreneurs into the CCP.

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Tiananment Square
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Historic plaza in Beijing where the Chinese party-state crushed the 1989 pro-reform demonstration.

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Wen Jiabao
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China's current premier and head of government.

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National Party Congress
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Chinese Communist Party's cumbersome legislative body.

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