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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.
Canton System
Buddhism
Hong Xiuquan
Yuan Shikai
2. 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.
Chiang Kai-Shek
People's Revolutionary Army
Hoppo
Late Qing Reforms
3. 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.
Revolutionary Alliance
Hoppo
Middle Kingdom
Confucius
4. Meaning 'barbarian -' this word showed China's belief that outsiders were evil - uncivilized or deserving of scorn.
Qing Dynasty
ManYi
Karma
Lord George Macartney
5. 'The Canon of the Way' was a book of poetry by Laozi - the old master - outlining the core principles of Daoism.
Canton System
Macao
Daodejing
Prince Shotuki
6. 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.
Dynastic Cycles
Taiping Rebellion
Neo-Confucianism
Puyi
7. 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.
Han Chinese
Republic of China
Buddhism
Hoppo
8. The date that Chiang Kai-Shek and the Guomindang fled the mainland to form the ROC on the island of Taiwan.
Most Favored Nation
Buddhism
Han Chinese
December 8 - 1949
9. 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.
ManYi
Taiping Rebellion
andate of Heaven
Red Army
10. 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.
Kang Youwei
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
Karma
Opium War
11. 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.
Puyi
Kongfuzi
'The Land System and Heavenly Dynasty'
Five Cardinal Relationships
12. Three ideas laid out in 1903 in Sun Yat Sen's writings: nationalism - democracy - and the people's livelihood.
13. (Record of Conversation) The Chinese name for 'The Analects -' the records of Confucius's teachings as written by his students.
October 1 - 1949
Puyi
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
Lun Yu (Record of Conversation)
14. 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.
Opium
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
Yuan Shikai
Northern Expedition
15. The last of China's emperors - a six year old boy - who gave up his throne on Feb. 12 - 1912.
Hong Kong
Lord George Macartney
Dynastic Cycles
Puyi
16. Ritual - music - mathematics - history - archery and charioteering were the core of Confucianism educations - designed to produce rounded and moral gentlemen.
Red Army
The Six Arts of Confucius
Koutou
Canton System
17. 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.
Canton/Guangzhou
Sun Yat Sen
Yuan Shikai
Commissioner Lin
18. The war following the Boxer Rebellion which was the largest conflict between China and the west.
Daoism
'United Front'
Chiang Kai-Shek
ar of 1900
19. (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.
Daoism
3 People's Principle
Prince Shotuki
Manchus
20. 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.
Boxer Protocol
Sino-Japanese War
Mao Zedong
Five Cardinal Relationships
21. 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
Republic of China
Hong Xiuquan
Yuan Shikai
22. 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.
Manchus
May 4th Movement
ManYi
'The Land System and Heavenly Dynasty'
23. 1858-1927 A Confucian scholar - imperial loyalist - and leader of the Hundred Days Reform in the late 19th century.
Canton System
Civil War
Kang Youwei
Self-Strengthening Movement'
24. The party formed by Sun Yat Sen after He was excluded from the new Republic of China.
Neo-Confucianism
Kang Youwei
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
andate of Heaven
25. Areas in China dominated and funded by foreign - often European - countries. Technically - these were still under Chinese rule.
ar of 1900
War of Resistance
Warlords
Spheres of Influence
26. The single port that British and foreign traders could access before the Opium War.
Tributary System
Canton/Guangzhou
Chinese Communist Party
Sino-Japanese War
27. The party formed by Sun Yat Sen after He was excluded from the new Republic of China.
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
December 8 - 1949
Treaty Of Nanjing
Koutou
28. 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.
Treaty Of Nanjing
Most Favored Nation
Sino-Japanese War
Manchus
29. The series of twenty books written by Confucius's students cataloguing his teachings; he himself never wrote any of his ideas down.
Red Army
Mao Zedong
The Analects
Lord George Macartney
30. 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.
Han Chinese
Cixi
Kongfuzi
The Analects
31. 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.
Prince Shotuki
Koutou
October 1 - 1949
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
32. 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.
Northern Expedition
Lun Yu (Record of Conversation)
October 1 - 1949
May 4th Movement
33. The emissary of King George III who - in 1793 - attempted to extend British trade with China. He and Britain were denied by the emperor.
Manchus
3 People's Principle
Extraterritoriality
Lord George Macartney
34. The war following the Boxer Rebellion which was the largest conflict between China and the west.
Dynastic Cycles
Kongfuzi
ar of 1900
Koutou
35. Lin Xezu - appointed by the emperor in 1839 to end the opium trade in Guangzhou (Canton).
Yuan Shikai
Commissioner Lin
Daoism
'United Front'
36. The idea - often in the 19th century - that a country should build up an empire. Ex. 'scramble for Africa'
Imperialism
Paris Peace Conference
Chinese Communist Party
The Analects
37. The single port that British and foreign traders could access before the Opium War.
ManYi
Canton/Guangzhou
War of Resistance
'United Front'
38. 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.
Warlords
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
Lun Yu (Record of Conversation)
39. The series of twenty books written by Confucius's students cataloguing his teachings; he himself never wrote any of his ideas down.
Northern Expedition
The Analects
Most Favored Nation
October 1 - 1949
40. 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.
Middle Kingdom
Hundred Days Reform
Lord George Macartney
Imperialism
41. A part of a treaty guaranteeing that a nation be granted any right given to another nation.
Kongfuzi
Karma
Taiping Rebellion
Most Favored Nation
42. '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.
Boxer Rebellion
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
Prince Gautama/Buddha
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
43. 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.
Kang Youwei
The Analects
Sino-Japanese War
The Six Arts of Confucius
44. 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
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
Kang Youwei
Hong Kong
Civil War
45. The perceived right to rule granted the emperor by supernatural powers - making him above the common people.
Nanjing
Boxer Rebellion
Commissioner Lin
andate of Heaven
46. The racial majority in China - consisting mostly of farmers.
Extraterritoriality
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
Kongfuzi
Han Chinese
47. 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.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Northern Expedition
Puyi
'The Land System and Heavenly Dynasty'
48. The 1860s movement by loyalist officials to attempt to modernize China with Western military technology and self sufficiency in weapon production.
49. 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
Sun Yat Sen
Karma
War of Resistance
Puyi
50. 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.