World Cultures Final- China
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SunshineSinger on June 6, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Beijing | Capital of China |
| Boxer Rebellion | uprising against foreign influence on religion, trade, and politics |
| Communists/Maoists | ant-revolutionist form of Marxist Communism |
| Confucianism | ethical/philosophical system from teacher Confucius |
| Deng Xiaping | attempted to improve China unsuccessfully |
| Four Modernizations | campaign to improve agriculture, industry, science, and technology, and national defense |
| Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi | First emperor, China gets its name from him, Great Wall built under his command, currency, Terra-Cotta Warriors |
| Extraterritoriality | treaty of Nanking, British-over China |
| Filial Piety | Respect for ancestors |
| Footbinding | Smaller feet would result in a better marriage |
| Great Wall | Built to keep the Mongols out |
| Hong Kong | British colony until 1997 |
| Hu Jintao | Current president of China |
| Ideograph | Symbol used to express an idea or concept |
| Imperialism of China | other countries with spheres of influence in China |
| Kowtow | States that foreigners must bow to Chinese |
| Legalism | Belief that states people are bad and only laws can make them good |
| Loesse | Yellow clay/dirt/sand from the Yellow River |
| Mandate of Heaven | States that the lucky rule the country.... too bad for the unlucky... |
| Mao Zedong | 1st communist ruler of China |
| Great Leap Forward | The industrialization of China under Mao Zedong |
| Mongols | invaded China |
| Nationalists/ Kuomintang/ Guomindong | Pushed for modernization and nationalization (three possible answers) |
| Opium Wars | Started over Britain selling opium to the Chinese |
| Porcelain | wanted by westerners from China- especially during the Ming dynasty |
| President Richard Nixon | Established diplomatic relations with China, the first to visit China |
| Shanghai | Slaughter of communists |
| Silk Road | land trade route |
| Special Economic Zones (SEZ) | foreign companies in certain areas of a country (In this case, China...) |
| Spheres of Influence | other countries control parts of China |
| Gentry | nobles and government workers |
| Sun Yatsen | created Chinese Nationalism |
| Taoism/ Daoism | Balance (Ying and Yang) the go-with-the-flow concept |
| Chinese Civil War | Nationalists vs. Communists |
| The Long March | Communists walk 6000 miles to escape the Nationalists |
| Tiananmen Square | A student protest where the government reacted harshly and violently (June 4) |
| Chiang Kaishek | member of Kuomintang, ally of Sun Yatsen |
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