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World History China
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1. The collapse of the Chinese empire in which the army supported the revolutionaries. Within six weeks - the Republic of China declared independence with Sun Yat Sen as its president.
ar of 1900
'United Front'
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
Manchus
2. The conference among the victorious allied forces concerning how to deal with the defeated countries. Among their decisions was to support the Japanese acquisition of Shandong - which upset the Chinese.
Nanjing
Yuan Shikai
Koutou
Paris Peace Conference
3. The Communist military in the Chinese Civil War - comprised largely of peasant recruits from rural areas and increasingly from urban areas. This army's strength was greater than that of the Nationalists' - and was able to win the war in 1949.
4. The reinterpretation of Confucianism in the 11th and 12th century to once again capture Confucius's teachings while also providing for other philosophies like Buddhism and Daoism.
Neo-Confucianism
Kang Youwei
Boxer Protocol
Self-Strengthening Movement'
5. The racial majority in China - consisting mostly of farmers.
Treaty Of Nanjing
War of Resistance
Han Chinese
Canton System
6. The combined force of the Nationalists and Communists Which marched north - eliminating warlords. It ended in 1927 - when Chiang Kai-Shek ordered the 'purge' of all Communists from his party - capturing and killing them all.
Hong Xiuquan
Northern Expedition
Karma
Hong Kong
7. The series of twenty books written by Confucius's students cataloguing his teachings; he himself never wrote any of his ideas down.
andate of Heaven
October 1 - 1949
The Analects
The Six Arts of Confucius
8. 1858-1927 A Confucian scholar - imperial loyalist - and leader of the Hundred Days Reform in the late 19th century.
Northern Expedition
People's Revolutionary Army
Kang Youwei
May 4th Movement
9. The perceived right to rule granted the emperor by supernatural powers - making him above the common people.
Imperialism
3 People's Principle
Kongfuzi
andate of Heaven
10. The man who started the new Chinese army in the early 20th century - which was exclusively loyal to him and was a force in the 1911 Revolution.
Northern Expedition
andate of Heaven
ManYi
Yuan Shikai
11. The date that Mao Zedong declared victory over the Nationalists - instituting the People's Republic of China.
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
October 1 - 1949
Kang Youwei
3 People's Principle
12. The treaty ending the Opium war - which was heavily favored toward the British. The Chinese were to pay 21 million dollars - give the British Hong Kong and to extend trading rights to the British.
Puyi
Treaty Of Nanjing
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
Hoppo
13. The leader of the Chinese Communist Party - who went into hiding in the countryside in 1927 to attempt to resurrect an opposition to the Nationalists.
Koutou
Yuan Shikai
Karma
Mao Zedong
14. The idea that if a foreign citizen committed a crime on Chinese soil - he/she should be sent home to be tried in his/her own country.
Canton System
Sun Yat Sen
'The Land System and Heavenly Dynasty'
Extraterritoriality
15. The escape of the Red Army in 1934 from the Nationalist effort to eliminate them. Over the course of a year - the army marched 6000 miles to Shaanxi and formed a base camp there.
October 1 - 1949
Hong Kong
Long March
Karma
16. The rival regional military leaders who fought for control of China between 1916 and 1919.
Daodejing
Manchus
Puyi
Warlords
17. The September 1901 treaty ending the Boxer Rebellion requiring that China pay 330 million in indemnity - punishing the Chinese officials - and weakening the Chinese military.
Confucius
Extraterritoriality
Boxer Protocol
Opium War
18. In 1915 - during WWI - Japan forced Germany to give up Shandong Province in China and then moved in. The resulted in a great deal of anger from the Chinese people.
Tributary System
Canton/Guangzhou
Civil War
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
19. Also 'Kongzi -' the Chinese name for Confucius meaning 'Master Kong'
Chiang Kai-Shek
Kongfuzi
Late Qing Reforms
Lun Yu (Record of Conversation)
20. (Record of Conversation) The Chinese name for 'The Analects -' the records of Confucius's teachings as written by his students.
Macao
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
Factories
Lun Yu (Record of Conversation)
21. The system imposed by Chinese courts in the 1750s to contain foreign traders. It restricted trade to the port of Canton - so traders only came once a year.
Karma
Red Army
Canton System
Koutou
22. The capital of the Taiping rebellion captures from the Qing dynasty in 1853.
Neo-Confucianism
Commissioner Lin
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
Nanjing
23. The 1919 movement of Beijing students upset with the warlords who had been fighting in the power vacuum left by Yuan Shikai; it was the first mass movement in China - and probably the first example of mass nationalism.
Han Chinese
'United Front'
May 4th Movement
Karma
24. The capital of the Taiping rebellion captures from the Qing dynasty in 1853.
Lord George Macartney
Canton/Guangzhou
Nanjing
Red Army
25. Meaning 'barbarian -' this word showed China's belief that outsiders were evil - uncivilized or deserving of scorn.
Kongfuzi
ManYi
October 1 - 1949
Canton/Guangzhou
26. The treaty ending the Opium war - which was heavily favored toward the British. The Chinese were to pay 21 million dollars - give the British Hong Kong and to extend trading rights to the British.
Canton/Guangzhou
Karma
Treaty Of Nanjing
Prince Shotuki
27. A part of a treaty guaranteeing that a nation be granted any right given to another nation.
Most Favored Nation
Macao
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
December 8 - 1949
28. The self-given name of China during the Qing Dynasty - demonstrating the Chinese idea that they were the center of the universe. The rest of the world was relatively insignificant.
Prince Gautama/Buddha
Northern Expedition
Middle Kingdom
Opium War
29. The series of twenty books written by Confucius's students cataloguing his teachings; he himself never wrote any of his ideas down.
Commissioner Lin
Commissioner Lin
The Analects
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
30. From 1644-1911 - this dynasty accepted foreign rulers as leaders of tributary states - subservient to China.
Koutou
Qing Dynasty
Warlords
Hong Xiuquan
31. 1937-1945 After Japanese forces invaded China in July 1937 - the Nationalists and Communists united to fight them off - though neither invested as many men or as much equipment as they might - for they did not trust each other. The war ended with the
Macao
October 1 - 1949
Paris Peace Conference
War of Resistance
32. An island off mainland China which the British traders fled to after resisting Chinese efforts to stem the opium trade. It was eventually given to the British after the opium war.
Daodejing
Kongfuzi
Hong Kong
Commissioner Lin
33. The single port that British and foreign traders could access before the Opium War.
Canton/Guangzhou
Daodejing
Manchus
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
34. A group of Chinese revolutionary students who elected Sun Yat Sen their leader. The group failed ten times to overthrow the empire before the 1911 Revolution.
Republic of China
Warlords
Revolutionary Alliance
ar of 1900
35. 1858-1927 A Confucian scholar - imperial loyalist - and leader of the Hundred Days Reform in the late 19th century.
Canton System
Kang Youwei
Neo-Confucianism
Prince Gautama/Buddha
36. The idea that if a foreign citizen committed a crime on Chinese soil - he/she should be sent home to be tried in his/her own country.
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
Prince Shotuki
Extraterritoriality
37. Born in 551 BCE - Confucius was a Chinese philosopher - mostly on social and political relationships. His teachings extended beyond his 3000 students to become the basis of traditional Chinese - Japanese - Korean - and Vietnamese culture.
Paris Peace Conference
Imperialism
Confucius
Hong Kong
38. The government formed by Sun Yat Sen's revolutionaries in 1912.
War of Resistance
Republic of China
Factories
Five Cardinal Relationships
39. 'The Canon of the Way' was a book of poetry by Laozi - the old master - outlining the core principles of Daoism.
Daodejing
Han Chinese
Northern Expedition
Canton/Guangzhou
40. The idea - often in the 19th century - that a country should build up an empire. Ex. 'scramble for Africa'
Cixi
Han Chinese
Imperialism
Karma
41. Born in 551 BCE - Confucius was a Chinese philosopher - mostly on social and political relationships. His teachings extended beyond his 3000 students to become the basis of traditional Chinese - Japanese - Korean - and Vietnamese culture.
Confucius
Late Qing Reforms
October 1 - 1949
May 4th Movement
42. The last of China's emperors - a six year old boy - who gave up his throne on Feb. 12 - 1912.
The Six Arts of Confucius
Daodejing
War of Resistance
Puyi
43. The relationships of dominance in Confucianism: Emperor over official - father over son - husband over wife - and elder brothers over the younger. There was also the relationship between male friends which was NOT related to rank.
Five Cardinal Relationships
Middle Kingdom
Treaty Of Nanjing
Macao
44. The Buddhist belief that people exist in a cycle of reincarnation - being reborn based on the quality of the life they had previously led. The ultimate goal of a Buddhist was to reach nirvana - a state of peacefulness - by ridding oneself of selfish
Buddhism
Karma
The Six Arts of Confucius
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
45. Lin Xezu - appointed by the emperor in 1839 to end the opium trade in Guangzhou (Canton).
People's Revolutionary Army
Republic of China
Confucius
Commissioner Lin
46. The date that Chiang Kai-Shek and the Guomindang fled the mainland to form the ROC on the island of Taiwan.
Manchus
Neo-Confucianism
December 8 - 1949
Self-Strengthening Movement'
47. (573-621) The court regent who used Confucianism to justify the supremacy of the emperor and centralization of government in Japan. This led to greater following of Confucius within Japan.
Warlords
Manchus
Middle Kingdom
Prince Shotuki
48. The conference among the victorious allied forces concerning how to deal with the defeated countries. Among their decisions was to support the Japanese acquisition of Shandong - which upset the Chinese.
Hundred Days Reform
Canton System
3 People's Principle
Paris Peace Conference
49. In the summer of 1898 - this was an effort by Kang Youwei and the emperor to restructure Chinese society. Some of the reforms include the establishment of the University of Beijing - the modernization of curriculum in education - the establishment of
People's Revolutionary Army
Puyi
Qing Dynasty
Hundred Days Reform
50. In 1915 - during WWI - Japan forced Germany to give up Shandong Province in China and then moved in. The resulted in a great deal of anger from the Chinese people.
3 People's Principle
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
War of Resistance