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1. 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
Prince Shotuki
Hundred Days Reform
The Analects
Factories
2. 'The Canon of the Way' was a book of poetry by Laozi - the old master - outlining the core principles of Daoism.
Mao Zedong
Warlords
Koutou
Daodejing
3. 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.
Hundred Days Reform
Revolutionary Alliance
Opium War
Kongfuzi
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.
Macao
Qing Dynasty
Nanjing
3 People's Principle
5. 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.
Most Favored Nation
Lun Yu (Record of Conversation)
Boxer Rebellion
Han Chinese
6. 1858-1927 A Confucian scholar - imperial loyalist - and leader of the Hundred Days Reform in the late 19th century.
Puyi
Red Army
Five Cardinal Relationships
Kang Youwei
7. 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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8. 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.
Boxer Protocol
Opium War
Qing Dynasty
The Analects
9. 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.
Kang Youwei
Prince Shotuki
Manchus
Koutou
10. 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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11. 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.
Hoppo
Northern Expedition
Warlords
Taiping Rebellion
12. (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.
Hong Kong
Macao
Daodejing
Prince Shotuki
13. 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
Long March
Treaty Of Nanjing
May 4th Movement
14. '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.
People's Revolutionary Army
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
Prince Gautama/Buddha
Yuan Shikai
15. 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
Nanjing
Neo-Confucianism
Chinese Communist Party
16. Three ideas laid out in 1903 in Sun Yat Sen's writings: nationalism - democracy - and the people's livelihood.
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17. Ritual - music - mathematics - history - archery and charioteering were the core of Confucianism educations - designed to produce rounded and moral gentlemen.
Daodejing
Late Qing Reforms
The Six Arts of Confucius
Daodejing
18. 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.
Opium
Han Chinese
Chiang Kai-Shek
Canton System
19. The government formed by Sun Yat Sen's revolutionaries in 1912.
Republic of China
Revolutionary Alliance
Northern Expedition
Middle Kingdom
20. From 1644-1911 - this dynasty accepted foreign rulers as leaders of tributary states - subservient to China.
Qing Dynasty
Mao Zedong
Sino-Japanese War
Civil War
21. 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
Sun Yat Sen
The Six Arts of Confucius
Extraterritoriality
22. 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.
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
Daodejing
'United Front'
Confucius
23. 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.
Sun Yat Sen
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
Sino-Japanese War
Macao
24. 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.
Puyi
Prince Shotuki
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
Long March
25. The emissary of King George III who - in 1793 - attempted to extend British trade with China. He and Britain were denied by the emperor.
Dynastic Cycles
Lord George Macartney
Northern Expedition
Neo-Confucianism
26. Three ideas laid out in 1903 in Sun Yat Sen's writings: nationalism - democracy - and the people's livelihood.
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27. The idea - often in the 19th century - that a country should build up an empire. Ex. 'scramble for Africa'
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
Imperialism
Neo-Confucianism
Boxer Rebellion
28. The series of twenty books written by Confucius's students cataloguing his teachings; he himself never wrote any of his ideas down.
'United Front'
Canton System
War of Resistance
The Analects
29. The series of twenty books written by Confucius's students cataloguing his teachings; he himself never wrote any of his ideas down.
Cixi
The Analects
Self-Strengthening Movement'
Lord George Macartney
30. 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.
Long March
Extraterritoriality
Buddhism
3 People's Principle
31. 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.
Paris Peace Conference
Chiang Kai-Shek
October 1 - 1949
Self-Strengthening Movement'
32. The single port that British and foreign traders could access before the Opium War.
People's Revolutionary Army
Canton/Guangzhou
Kang Youwei
Extraterritoriality
33. 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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34. An alternative to Confucianism recommending activity in accord with nature with emphasis on little government intervention and and 'action of inaction.'
Daoism
Republic of China
3 People's Principle
Macao
35. 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.
Macao
Canton System
Paris Peace Conference
Han Chinese
36. 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.
Chiang Kai-Shek
3 People's Principle
Boxer Protocol
Chinese Communist Party
37. '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.
Prince Gautama/Buddha
Late Qing Reforms
Canton System
May 4th Movement
38. A part of a treaty guaranteeing that a nation be granted any right given to another nation.
Paris Peace Conference
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
War of Resistance
Most Favored Nation
39. 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.
The Six Arts of Confucius
Republic of China
Nanjing
Yuan Shikai
40. 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
Prince Shotuki
Chinese Communist Party
Extraterritoriality
Lun Yu (Record of Conversation)
41. 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.
Puyi
Buddhism
Hong Xiuquan
Prince Shotuki
42. The date that Mao Zedong declared victory over the Nationalists - instituting the People's Republic of China.
Opium War
October 1 - 1949
Han Chinese
Taiping Rebellion
43. The military of the Chinese Communist Party which was nearly destroyed in 1934 - but eventually reorganized and regrew its power.
Red Army
Nanjing
ar of 1900
Late Qing Reforms
44. The racial majority in China - consisting mostly of farmers.
Late Qing Reforms
'United Front'
Han Chinese
Prince Gautama/Buddha
45. 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.
Chinese Communist Party
Macao
May 4th Movement
Treaty Of Nanjing
46. The date that Chiang Kai-Shek and the Guomindang fled the mainland to form the ROC on the island of Taiwan.
Hoppo
Hundred Days Reform
December 8 - 1949
Commissioner Lin
47. The date that Mao Zedong declared victory over the Nationalists - instituting the People's Republic of China.
Self-Strengthening Movement'
Canton System
October 1 - 1949
Buddhism
48. 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.
Long March
Most Favored Nation
Five Cardinal Relationships
Boxer Protocol
49. 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.
Cixi
Five Cardinal Relationships
Northern Expedition
Paris Peace Conference
50. (Record of Conversation) The Chinese name for 'The Analects -' the records of Confucius's teachings as written by his students.
Revolutionary Alliance
'The Land System and Heavenly Dynasty'
Treaty Of Nanjing
Lun Yu (Record of Conversation)
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