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World History China
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1. 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.
Imperialism
Warlords
Canton System
Lun Yu (Record of Conversation)
2. 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.
ManYi
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
Long March
Qing Dynasty
3. The military of the Chinese Communist Party which was nearly destroyed in 1934 - but eventually reorganized and regrew its power.
Imperialism
Koutou
Tributary System
Red Army
4. The home of foreign traders with China under the Canton system. It was 80 miles downriver - and so the traders had to wait a long time for favorable winds.
Prince Gautama/Buddha
Daodejing
'The Land System and Heavenly Dynasty'
Macao
5. 1858-1927 A Confucian scholar - imperial loyalist - and leader of the Hundred Days Reform in the late 19th century.
Sun Yat Sen
Hong Kong
Kang Youwei
Neo-Confucianism
6. Three ideas laid out in 1903 in Sun Yat Sen's writings: nationalism - democracy - and the people's livelihood.
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7. The capital of the Taiping rebellion captures from the Qing dynasty in 1853.
Paris Peace Conference
Karma
Nanjing
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
8. 1894-1895 The war between the Chinese and former tributary state Japan - which - after a Japanese victory - prompted the Chinese to reform its military and social system.
Warlords
Sino-Japanese War
Commissioner Lin
October 1 - 1949
9. 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.
Most Favored Nation
Prince Gautama/Buddha
Kongfuzi
Northern Expedition
10. A religion from India started by Prince Gautama based on the concept of freeing oneself from material possessions and clinging to life - and that man's suffering is an artifact of his own creation.
Most Favored Nation
Buddhism
Boxer Rebellion
May 4th Movement
11. 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.
Taiping Rebellion
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
3 People's Principle
Puyi
12. 1945-1949 Immediately after the War of Resistance ended - the Nationalists and Communists fought for control of China. Though the Nationalists appeared to have the upper hand - their support crumbled due to economic troubles and corruption. The Commu
Long March
Boxer Protocol
Boxer Rebellion
Civil War
13. The official appointed by the Chinese government Who was in charge of taxes and control of trade - with whom foreign traders were not permitted to speak.
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
Hoppo
People's Revolutionary Army
Boxer Rebellion
14. The document outlining the core beliefs of the Taiping rebels - essentially an early and basic form of communism. It said that the land was a resource owned by everyone - and that everyone deserved an equal share of it and its benefits.
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15. 'The Canon of the Way' was a book of poetry by Laozi - the old master - outlining the core principles of Daoism.
'United Front'
Daodejing
Warlords
Daoism
16. 1887-1975 He was the superintendent of the Whampoa Military Academy appointed by Sun Yat Sen - and became Sun's successor as the head of the Guomindang. He left China in 1949 after being defeated by the communists - and reformed the Republic of China
Hundred Days Reform
Boxer Protocol
Chiang Kai-Shek
Confucius
17. 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.
Spheres of Influence
Warlords
Canton System
Dynastic Cycles
18. The idea - very much consistent with Confucian ideals of dominance - that China's neighboring states were supposed to be subservient - and owed China tribute. Also - these states were to observe China as superior in culture - policy and economy.
Sun Yat Sen
Commissioner Lin
Tributary System
Yuan Shikai
19. 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
Karma
Chinese Communist Party
Extraterritoriality
Confucius
20. The party formed by Sun Yat Sen after He was excluded from the new Republic of China.
Puyi
Spheres of Influence
Warlords
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
21. A part of a treaty guaranteeing that a nation be granted any right given to another nation.
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
Imperialism
Taiping Rebellion
Most Favored Nation
22. 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
Paris Peace Conference
Karma
The Analects
Dynastic Cycles
23. 1894-1895 The war between the Chinese and former tributary state Japan - which - after a Japanese victory - prompted the Chinese to reform its military and social system.
The Six Arts of Confucius
Sino-Japanese War
Opium
andate of Heaven
24. The required ritual performed in front of the emperor in which one would kneel three times and touch his head to the floor nine times.
Self-Strengthening Movement'
Qing Dynasty
Koutou
Republic of China
25. The date that Chiang Kai-Shek and the Guomindang fled the mainland to form the ROC on the island of Taiwan.
December 8 - 1949
Tributary System
People's Revolutionary Army
Most Favored Nation
26. The measure of Chinese history by a chain of emperors - often 200-300 years. These began with the usurpation of a corrupt emperor followed by a strong dynasty which then also declined into corruption.
Long March
Dynastic Cycles
Sino-Japanese War
'United Front'
27. Ritual - music - mathematics - history - archery and charioteering were the core of Confucianism educations - designed to produce rounded and moral gentlemen.
andate of Heaven
Nanjing
The Six Arts of Confucius
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
28. The rival regional military leaders who fought for control of China between 1916 and 1919.
Boxer Rebellion
Most Favored Nation
Warlords
Late Qing Reforms
29. In 1931 - the Japanese took Machuria while the Nationalists were preoccupied fighting the Communists. They then set up the puppet government of Manchukuo with Puyi as its leader.
Long March
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
Five Cardinal Relationships
30. The combined force of the Communists and Nationalists formed in 1936 united in the common goal for the Chinese to oppose the Japanese invasions.
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31. 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.
Puyi
Chiang Kai-Shek
ManYi
Hong Kong
32. The date that Chiang Kai-Shek and the Guomindang fled the mainland to form the ROC on the island of Taiwan.
December 8 - 1949
Boxer Rebellion
The Six Arts of Confucius
Han Chinese
33. 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.
Long March
Opium War
Five Cardinal Relationships
Five Cardinal Relationships
34. Lin Xezu - appointed by the emperor in 1839 to end the opium trade in Guangzhou (Canton).
ManYi
Commissioner Lin
'The Land System and Heavenly Dynasty'
Middle Kingdom
35. 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.
Lord George Macartney
ar of 1900
Puyi
Northern Expedition
36. The living quarters of foreign traders which were blockaded for 47 days with 350 inside. This action by Commissioner Lin led to the Opium War.
Daoism
Middle Kingdom
Chinese Communist Party
Factories
37. 'The Canon of the Way' was a book of poetry by Laozi - the old master - outlining the core principles of Daoism.
Koutou
Daodejing
Self-Strengthening Movement'
Spheres of Influence
38. The series of twenty books written by Confucius's students cataloguing his teachings; he himself never wrote any of his ideas down.
The Analects
December 8 - 1949
Confucius
Taiping Rebellion
39. 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.
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
May 4th Movement
Red Army
40. The popular peasant movement starting in North China in 1898. This thoroughly anti-foreign rebellion ousted the Chinese empire - but was put down by foreign militaries in 1900.
Boxer Rebellion
Canton/Guangzhou
Boxer Protocol
Hoppo
41. 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.
Qing Dynasty
Yuan Shikai
Nanjing
Lun Yu (Record of Conversation)
42. An extremely addicting drug now found in morphine which the British and other foreign traders brought to China to trade for Chinese goods - as the Chinese had little interest in European goods.
Tributary System
Puyi
Opium
Extraterritoriality
43. The racial majority in China - consisting mostly of farmers.
Han Chinese
'United Front'
Self-Strengthening Movement'
Chiang Kai-Shek
44. The capital of the Taiping rebellion captures from the Qing dynasty in 1853.
Nanjing
Sun Yat Sen
Extraterritoriality
Han Chinese
45. The party formed by Sun Yat Sen after He was excluded from the new Republic of China.
Hong Xiuquan
Opium
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
The Analects
46. (Record of Conversation) The Chinese name for 'The Analects -' the records of Confucius's teachings as written by his students.
Yuan Shikai
Lun Yu (Record of Conversation)
Sun Yat Sen
Long March
47. 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.
Most Favored Nation
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
Northern Expedition
Middle Kingdom
48. The war following the Boxer Rebellion which was the largest conflict between China and the west.
Daoism
Prince Gautama/Buddha
Revolutionary Alliance
ar of 1900
49. The 1860s movement by loyalist officials to attempt to modernize China with Western military technology and self sufficiency in weapon production.
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50. 1945-1949 Immediately after the War of Resistance ended - the Nationalists and Communists fought for control of China. Though the Nationalists appeared to have the upper hand - their support crumbled due to economic troubles and corruption. The Commu
Civil War
The Six Arts of Confucius
Buddhism
Macao