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1. The military of the Chinese Communist Party which was nearly destroyed in 1934 - but eventually reorganized and regrew its power.
Red Army
Extraterritoriality
Canton System
The Analects
2. The single port that British and foreign traders could access before the Opium War.
Opium
Canton/Guangzhou
Spheres of Influence
People's Revolutionary Army
3. Three ideas laid out in 1903 in Sun Yat Sen's writings: nationalism - democracy - and the people's livelihood.
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4. The people of Manchuria who overthrew the Chinese throne in the 17th century and started the Qing Dynasty. They eventually became more like the rest of China - however.
Paris Peace Conference
Kang Youwei
Manchus
Long March
5. 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.
Yuan Shikai
The Six Arts of Confucius
Opium War
War of Resistance
6. 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.
Late Qing Reforms
Kang Youwei
Yuan Shikai
Extraterritoriality
7. The last of China's emperors - a six year old boy - who gave up his throne on Feb. 12 - 1912.
Kongfuzi
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
Puyi
Tributary System
8. 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
Yuan Shikai
Hong Xiuquan
Late Qing Reforms
9. 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.
Sino-Japanese War
ar of 1900
Koutou
May 4th Movement
10. The rival regional military leaders who fought for control of China between 1916 and 1919.
Warlords
Treaty Of Nanjing
'The Land System and Heavenly Dynasty'
People's Revolutionary Army
11. The idea - often in the 19th century - that a country should build up an empire. Ex. 'scramble for Africa'
Imperialism
Civil War
Puyi
Chiang Kai-Shek
12. Areas in China dominated and funded by foreign - often European - countries. Technically - these were still under Chinese rule.
Lord George Macartney
Spheres of Influence
Middle Kingdom
Yuan Shikai
13. 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.
Kang Youwei
Mao Zedong
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
Long March
14. 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.
Sino-Japanese War
Lord George Macartney
ManYi
Dynastic Cycles
15. 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.
Northern Expedition
Puyi
December 8 - 1949
Sun Yat Sen
16. 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
'The Land System and Heavenly Dynasty'
Koutou
Koutou
17. Meaning 'barbarian -' this word showed China's belief that outsiders were evil - uncivilized or deserving of scorn.
Hong Xiuquan
Prince Gautama/Buddha
'United Front'
ManYi
18. 'The Enlightened One' From the foothills of the Himalayas along the border of India and Nepal - contemplated the cause of misery and suffering - and through meditation - created Buddhism.
Chinese Communist Party
Middle Kingdom
Prince Gautama/Buddha
Nanjing
19. 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.
Northern Expedition
Macao
Late Qing Reforms
Boxer Protocol
20. 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 Protocol
Manchus
Kongfuzi
Chinese Communist Party
21. 1858-1927 A Confucian scholar - imperial loyalist - and leader of the Hundred Days Reform in the late 19th century.
Civil War
Boxer Rebellion
Five Cardinal Relationships
Kang Youwei
22. The peasant rebellion in the early 1850s led by Hong Xiuquan which supported an early form of communism. Though they were able to defeat the Qing empire - foreign countries suppressed the Taiping with their militaries.
Commissioner Lin
Taiping Rebellion
Chinese Communist Party
Daoism
23. 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
Confucius
People's Revolutionary Army
Karma
Hong Xiuquan
24. 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.
War of Resistance
ManYi
Confucius
Civil War
25. 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
October 1 - 1949
Lord George Macartney
Spheres of Influence
Chiang Kai-Shek
26. 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.
Koutou
3 People's Principle
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
Daodejing
27. A part of a treaty guaranteeing that a nation be granted any right given to another nation.
Most Favored Nation
andate of Heaven
Karma
Neo-Confucianism
28. 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.
The Analects
Karma
Late Qing Reforms
andate of Heaven
29. 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
Opium War
Prince Gautama/Buddha
Chinese Communist Party
Mao Zedong
30. 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.
Neo-Confucianism
Hong Kong
May 4th Movement
3 People's Principle
31. The date that Mao Zedong declared victory over the Nationalists - instituting the People's Republic of China.
ar of 1900
Extraterritoriality
Hoppo
October 1 - 1949
32. The government formed by Sun Yat Sen's revolutionaries in 1912.
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
Daoism
Republic of China
33. Lin Xezu - appointed by the emperor in 1839 to end the opium trade in Guangzhou (Canton).
3 People's Principle
Boxer Rebellion
ManYi
Commissioner Lin
34. 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
andate of Heaven
Republic of China
Taiping Rebellion
War of Resistance
35. 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.
ManYi
Hoppo
Sino-Japanese War
Puyi
36. 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.
Middle Kingdom
Revolutionary Alliance
Hoppo
Sun Yat Sen
37. Lin Xezu - appointed by the emperor in 1839 to end the opium trade in Guangzhou (Canton).
Imperialism
Commissioner Lin
Prince Gautama/Buddha
Northern Expedition
38. An alternative to Confucianism recommending activity in accord with nature with emphasis on little government intervention and and 'action of inaction.'
Republic of China
Hoppo
Buddhism
Daoism
39. The capital of the Taiping rebellion captures from the Qing dynasty in 1853.
Boxer Protocol
Nanjing
Sun Yat Sen
Kang Youwei
40. 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.
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41. 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.
Northern Expedition
Boxer Rebellion
Opium
Cixi
42. A part of a treaty guaranteeing that a nation be granted any right given to another nation.
Buddhism
Five Cardinal Relationships
Koutou
Most Favored Nation
43. 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.
Kongfuzi
May 4th Movement
Northern Expedition
Qing Dynasty
44. 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.
Red Army
Neo-Confucianism
Tributary System
'The Land System and Heavenly Dynasty'
45. 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
Dynastic Cycles
Qing Dynasty
Hundred Days Reform
ManYi
46. The single port that British and foreign traders could access before the Opium War.
3 People's Principle
andate of Heaven
Canton/Guangzhou
People's Revolutionary Army
47. Three ideas laid out in 1903 in Sun Yat Sen's writings: nationalism - democracy - and the people's livelihood.
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48. 1835-1908 The Empress Dowager (widow) who controlled the Chinese empire through the reigning emperor. She sided with the fired officials to help end the Hundred Days Reform.
December 8 - 1949
Cixi
Hoppo
Neo-Confucianism
49. Ritual - music - mathematics - history - archery and charioteering were the core of Confucianism educations - designed to produce rounded and moral gentlemen.
The Six Arts of Confucius
Hong Kong
Civil War
The Analects
50. The date that Mao Zedong declared victory over the Nationalists - instituting the People's Republic of China.
Karma
Northern Expedition
Boxer Rebellion
October 1 - 1949
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