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| Shang Dynasty (1500BC-1027BC) |
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| China's oldest recorded dynasty. |
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| Noted for its magnificent naval expeditions |
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| Mongol and Manchu Invasions |
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| Had little or no impact on Han (Chinese) culture |
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| Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864) |
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| Was in fact inspired by Christianity. |
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| Boxer Rebellion (1900-1901) |
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| Purpose was to purge China of all foreigners, especially the western Missionaries and their Chinese converts. Had full support of the Empress Dowager Cixi. |
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| A means by which china controlled the activities of western traders in China. All trade was transacted through a Chinese merchants guild known as the Cohong. |
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| Developed because the West had few products to offer that china sought. |
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| Opium War and Treaty of Nanking |
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| Had the result of increasing the presence of the West in China and forcing China to Open up to Further western trade. |
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| Had the effect of binding the peasants to the cause of the communist revolution and established Mao Zedong as the undisputed leader of the communist party. |
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| made woman equal with men in all respects |
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| Kuomintang - Communist Party Alliance |
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| Created during the Chinese Civil war between the Kuomintang and communist party as a means of preventing further Japanese aggression in China and to save their respective causes. |
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| Mao Zedong's program to rapidly increase agrarian and industrial production in China. It failed largely because it provided no incentive to product. Between 1959 and 1961, the failure of the agrarian policies of the great leap forward combined with three years of drought, led to the 20th centuries greatest famine, with an estimated 30 million deaths. |
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| Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) |
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| Designed by Mao Zedong to destroy all remnants and aspects of traditional Chinese society and culture. |
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| "Let one hundred flowers bloom" |
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| used by Mao Zedong as a means of Identifying his potential enemies and detractors of the communist party |
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| Became the basic units of traditional Chinese society and Culture |
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| Mao Zedong the revolutionary vs. Mao Zedong the administrator |
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| Mao Zedong proved to be much better as a revolutionary leader than he was at actually governing China. |
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| Deng Xiaoping's Policy on Reform |
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| Deng Xiaoping supported any reforms that promoted rapid economic reform and did not put into question the political authority of the communist party. |
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| Deng Xiaoping's four modernizations |
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Agriculture
Industry
Science and Technology
National Defense |
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| Tiananmen Square Incident (1989) |
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| brutally crushed the pro-democracy movement in China. |
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| Characteristics of the Traditional Chinese Family |
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Patriarchal Authority
Subordination of the individual to the group
Domination and veneration of age over youth
Arranged marriage |
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| A newly married couple would move into the household of the husband's family |
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| One child per Family program |
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| The most effective means that China Utilized in controlling its population growth. |
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| The family under communism |
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| the basic aim of the communist party was to shift the loyalties of its members away from the family and toward the communist state. |
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| Inadequate educational institution |
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| the most pressing problem facing china in the 21st century is its inadequate educational institution. |
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| Education under the communists |
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| Mao Zedong believed that education should focus on political indoctrination and the development of practical skills. |
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| Characteristics of China's economy today |
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A large but shrinking state owned sector
A substantial and growing collective sector
A rapidly growing private sector |
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| a workplace unit which owns and manages a collective enterprise |
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| The smallest but fastest growing sector in Chinas economy today |
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| it is estimated that China could lose 100 million agricultural laborers and still not experience a drop in its agrarian production. |
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| in recent years china's urban population has been augmented by the arival of as many as 100 million "floating workers". This floating workforce is composed of poor agrarian workers who temporarily come to the cities to earn additional income. |
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| established as a means of encouraging foreign manufactures to establish the operations in china. |
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| Feng Shui (wind and water) |
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| a set of traditional spiritual laws, or geomancy, used to attract the best luck and prevent bad fortune. |
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| functions as a form of social control |
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| The somewhat mystic founder of daoism |
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| in some ways can be viewed as a functional equivalent of religion. |
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| both originated in China, unlike Buddhism which was imported from India |
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| Mahayana Buddhism (Great Wheel) |
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| the type of Buddhism that is most prevalent in china and all of east Asia. |
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| Uniqueness of China's Religions |
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| The way in which each of the three major religions have been integrated and merged with one another. |
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