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World History China
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1. The series of twenty books written by Confucius's students cataloguing his teachings; he himself never wrote any of his ideas down.
The Analects
Daoism
Nanjing
Self-Strengthening Movement'
2. 1866-1925 The leader of the Chinese revolutionaries in the early 20th century who believed that the imperial system needed to be replaced with a nationalist and socialist government.
Confucius
Sun Yat Sen
ManYi
Daodejing
3. The date that Mao Zedong declared victory over the Nationalists - instituting the People's Republic of China.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Northern Expedition
October 1 - 1949
Daoism
4. From 1644-1911 - this dynasty accepted foreign rulers as leaders of tributary states - subservient to China.
Qing Dynasty
War of Resistance
Extraterritoriality
Manchus
5. The party formed in 1921 led by Mao Zedong which held the ideal that a Communist government would improve the lives of urban workers and rural farmers. The disillusioned poor of China were eager to embrace such ideas they saw as liberating them from
Chinese Communist Party
Lord George Macartney
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
Mao Zedong
6. 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.
Boxer Rebellion
Imperialism
Long March
Boxer Protocol
7. The rival regional military leaders who fought for control of China between 1916 and 1919.
Warlords
Canton/Guangzhou
ManYi
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
8. The racial majority in China - consisting mostly of farmers.
Neo-Confucianism
Han Chinese
Kongfuzi
Daodejing
9. The idea - often in the 19th century - that a country should build up an empire. Ex. 'scramble for Africa'
Imperialism
Macao
Most Favored Nation
Warlords
10. 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
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chinese Communist Party
ManYi
Most Favored Nation
11. 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.
Boxer Protocol
Opium War
Hong Kong
Kang Youwei
12. 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.
Extraterritoriality
Nanjing
Extraterritoriality
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
13. (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.
Boxer Rebellion
Prince Shotuki
October 1 - 1949
May 4th Movement
14. 1839-1842 - it was fought between the British and Chinese over the opium trade. The British were ultimately victorious - and the war ended in the Treaty of Nanjing.
Opium War
Hong Kong
3 People's Principle
Canton System
15. Efforts by the Empress Cixi to save the Qing Dynasty between 1901 and 1908 introducing a modern education system - a new system for civil service entrance - and a new army.
Taiping Rebellion
Late Qing Reforms
Hong Xiuquan
Cixi
16. 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.
Lun Yu (Record of Conversation)
Chiang Kai-Shek
'United Front'
Buddhism
17. 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
Hong Xiuquan
Chiang Kai-Shek
Republic of China
Commissioner Lin
18. The last of China's emperors - a six year old boy - who gave up his throne on Feb. 12 - 1912.
Red Army
Boxer Protocol
War of Resistance
Puyi
19. Also 'Kongzi -' the Chinese name for Confucius meaning 'Master Kong'
Mao Zedong
Most Favored Nation
ManYi
Kongfuzi
20. (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.
Daodejing
Warlords
Prince Shotuki
Boxer Protocol
21. The perceived right to rule granted the emperor by supernatural powers - making him above the common people.
andate of Heaven
Karma
People's Revolutionary Army
Hong Xiuquan
22. 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.
Neo-Confucianism
Sino-Japanese War
Confucius
Hoppo
23. The capital of the Taiping rebellion captures from the Qing dynasty in 1853.
Nanjing
May 4th Movement
Taiping Rebellion
Spheres of Influence
24. 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.
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
Middle Kingdom
Kongfuzi
Canton/Guangzhou
25. 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.
Imperialism
Middle Kingdom
Buddhism
Revolutionary Alliance
26. The party formed by Sun Yat Sen after He was excluded from the new Republic of China.
Spheres of Influence
Chinese Communist Party
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
Hong Kong
27. The last of China's emperors - a six year old boy - who gave up his throne on Feb. 12 - 1912.
Puyi
Self-Strengthening Movement'
Daoism
Factories
28. The single port that British and foreign traders could access before the Opium War.
Chiang Kai-Shek
andate of Heaven
Canton/Guangzhou
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
29. 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.
Canton System
Opium War
Hoppo
December 8 - 1949
30. 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.
Mao Zedong
Canton System
Daoism
Nanjing
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.
Taiping Rebellion
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
Hong Kong
Lord George Macartney
32. 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.
Canton System
Yuan Shikai
Cixi
Opium
33. 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.
Buddhism
Neo-Confucianism
Revolutionary Alliance
Opium War
34. The combined force of the Communists and Nationalists formed in 1936 united in the common goal for the Chinese to oppose the Japanese invasions.
35. The date that Chiang Kai-Shek and the Guomindang fled the mainland to form the ROC on the island of Taiwan.
December 8 - 1949
andate of Heaven
Manchus
Tributary System
36. The series of twenty books written by Confucius's students cataloguing his teachings; he himself never wrote any of his ideas down.
Most Favored Nation
Treaty Of Nanjing
The Analects
Spheres of Influence
37. The war following the Boxer Rebellion which was the largest conflict between China and the west.
3 People's Principle
ar of 1900
Yuan Shikai
War of Resistance
38. The military of the Chinese Communist Party which was nearly destroyed in 1934 - but eventually reorganized and regrew its power.
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
Red Army
Karma
Manchus
39. The war following the Boxer Rebellion which was the largest conflict between China and the west.
Confucius
Northern Expedition
Opium
ar of 1900
40. The capital of the Taiping rebellion captures from the Qing dynasty in 1853.
Nanjing
Kang Youwei
Chiang Kai-Shek
Prince Gautama/Buddha
41. 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.
Taiping Rebellion
Dynastic Cycles
Hong Xiuquan
Middle Kingdom
42. The government formed by Sun Yat Sen's revolutionaries in 1912.
Republic of China
Kongfuzi
Daodejing
Commissioner Lin
43. 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.
Middle Kingdom
Middle Kingdom
Yuan Shikai
The Analects
44. 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.
Paris Peace Conference
Extraterritoriality
Spheres of Influence
ManYi
45. 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.
46. The idea - often in the 19th century - that a country should build up an empire. Ex. 'scramble for Africa'
Canton System
Most Favored Nation
Imperialism
Self-Strengthening Movement'
47. The leader of the Taiping Rebellion in the early 1950s who believed that the Qing Dynasty was at the end of its dynastic cycle - and that - he given the Mandate of Heaven - had the right to rule.
Chinese Communist Party
Prince Shotuki
Hong Xiuquan
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
48. 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.
Hong Kong
Mao Zedong
Civil War
Opium
49. 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.
Prince Shotuki
Canton/Guangzhou
Sino-Japanese War
May 4th Movement
50. 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.