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1. The idea - often in the 19th century - that a country should build up an empire. Ex. 'scramble for Africa'
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
Imperialism
Daoism
Canton System
2. 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.
andate of Heaven
Lun Yu (Record of Conversation)
Warlords
Opium War
3. 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.
Taiping Rebellion
Revolutionary Alliance
Daodejing
Paris Peace Conference
4. 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.
Buddhism
andate of Heaven
Karma
Chiang Kai-Shek
5. 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.
Extraterritoriality
Tributary System
'The Land System and Heavenly Dynasty'
Civil War
6. The emissary of King George III who - in 1793 - attempted to extend British trade with China. He and Britain were denied by the emperor.
Canton/Guangzhou
Five Cardinal Relationships
Confucius
Lord George Macartney
7. The capital of the Taiping rebellion captures from the Qing dynasty in 1853.
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
Nanjing
Most Favored Nation
Middle Kingdom
8. 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.
'The Land System and Heavenly Dynasty'
Five Cardinal Relationships
Sun Yat Sen
Extraterritoriality
9. 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.
People's Revolutionary Army
Opium
Canton System
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
10. 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.
Dynastic Cycles
Hong Xiuquan
Kang Youwei
Revolutionary Alliance
11. 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
Cixi
Canton System
Dynastic Cycles
12. The series of twenty books written by Confucius's students cataloguing his teachings; he himself never wrote any of his ideas down.
Buddhism
Kongfuzi
Opium War
The Analects
13. The idea - often in the 19th century - that a country should build up an empire. Ex. 'scramble for Africa'
Long March
Imperialism
Canton/Guangzhou
Buddhism
14. 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.
Republic of China
Revolutionary Alliance
Opium
Han Chinese
15. The last of China's emperors - a six year old boy - who gave up his throne on Feb. 12 - 1912.
Hong Kong
Puyi
Spheres of Influence
ManYi
16. 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.
Civil War
Boxer Protocol
War of Resistance
Five Cardinal Relationships
17. 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.
Imperialism
Treaty Of Nanjing
Extraterritoriality
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
18. The war following the Boxer Rebellion which was the largest conflict between China and the west.
andate of Heaven
3 People's Principle
ar of 1900
Karma
19. Areas in China dominated and funded by foreign - often European - countries. Technically - these were still under Chinese rule.
Puyi
Spheres of Influence
'The Land System and Heavenly Dynasty'
Daodejing
20. 1858-1927 A Confucian scholar - imperial loyalist - and leader of the Hundred Days Reform in the late 19th century.
Daodejing
Opium
Kang Youwei
Republic of China
21. 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
December 8 - 1949
Hundred Days Reform
Canton/Guangzhou
Factories
22. Meaning 'barbarian -' this word showed China's belief that outsiders were evil - uncivilized or deserving of scorn.
ManYi
Opium War
October 1 - 1949
Republic of China
23. 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.
Hong Xiuquan
Karma
Warlords
Macao
24. 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
October 1 - 1949
Self-Strengthening Movement'
Chinese Communist Party
25. (Record of Conversation) The Chinese name for 'The Analects -' the records of Confucius's teachings as written by his students.
Dynastic Cycles
Lun Yu (Record of Conversation)
War of Resistance
Revolutionary Alliance
26. (Record of Conversation) The Chinese name for 'The Analects -' the records of Confucius's teachings as written by his students.
Lun Yu (Record of Conversation)
Kang Youwei
Sino-Japanese War
Self-Strengthening Movement'
27. 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
War of Resistance
Hundred Days Reform
Manchus
Koutou
28. A part of a treaty guaranteeing that a nation be granted any right given to another nation.
Opium War
Nanjing
Koutou
Most Favored Nation
29. 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.
Nanjing
Manchus
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
andate of Heaven
30. Lin Xezu - appointed by the emperor in 1839 to end the opium trade in Guangzhou (Canton).
Commissioner Lin
Opium War
Warlords
Yuan Shikai
31. 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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32. The perceived right to rule granted the emperor by supernatural powers - making him above the common people.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Sino-Japanese War
Factories
andate of Heaven
33. 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
Chinese Communist Party
Northern Expedition
Manchus
34. 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.
Lun Yu (Record of Conversation)
Tributary System
Neo-Confucianism
3 People's Principle
35. 'The Canon of the Way' was a book of poetry by Laozi - the old master - outlining the core principles of Daoism.
Daodejing
Taiping Rebellion
Spheres of Influence
Chinese Communist Party
36. 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.
Late Qing Reforms
Hong Kong
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
Qing Dynasty
37. 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.
Daoism
Extraterritoriality
Cixi
Middle Kingdom
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.
Most Favored Nation
Republic of China
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
Boxer Rebellion
39. The military of the Chinese Communist Party which was nearly destroyed in 1934 - but eventually reorganized and regrew its power.
Manchus
Dynastic Cycles
War of Resistance
Red Army
40. 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
December 8 - 1949
Opium
Koutou
41. The last of China's emperors - a six year old boy - who gave up his throne on Feb. 12 - 1912.
The Analects
Cixi
Puyi
October 1 - 1949
42. The government formed by Sun Yat Sen's revolutionaries in 1912.
Civil War
Kang Youwei
Republic of China
Sun Yat Sen
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.
Imperialism
The Analects
Hoppo
May 4th Movement
44. 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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45. Ritual - music - mathematics - history - archery and charioteering were the core of Confucianism educations - designed to produce rounded and moral gentlemen.
Five Cardinal Relationships
Most Favored Nation
The Six Arts of Confucius
Confucius
46. 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
War of Resistance
The Six Arts of Confucius
Karma
Sun Yat Sen
47. The date that Mao Zedong declared victory over the Nationalists - instituting the People's Republic of China.
Middle Kingdom
Commissioner Lin
Late Qing Reforms
October 1 - 1949
48. The perceived right to rule granted the emperor by supernatural powers - making him above the common people.
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
andate of Heaven
October 1 - 1949
Sun Yat Sen
49. 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.
Buddhism
The Analects
Middle Kingdom
Warlords
50. '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 Shotuki
Cixi
October 1 - 1949
Prince Gautama/Buddha
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