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1. Areas in China dominated and funded by foreign - often European - countries. Technically - these were still under Chinese rule.
Buddhism
Spheres of Influence
Lord George Macartney
Nanjing
2. Meaning 'barbarian -' this word showed China's belief that outsiders were evil - uncivilized or deserving of scorn.
andate of Heaven
Long March
ManYi
The Six Arts of Confucius
3. The series of twenty books written by Confucius's students cataloguing his teachings; he himself never wrote any of his ideas down.
The Analects
Prince Shotuki
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
May 4th Movement
4. 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.
Late Qing Reforms
Red Army
Dynastic Cycles
Hong Kong
5. 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.
Lun Yu (Record of Conversation)
May 4th Movement
Han Chinese
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
6. The single port that British and foreign traders could access before the Opium War.
War of Resistance
Long March
Canton/Guangzhou
Commissioner Lin
7. 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
Buddhism
Koutou
Chinese Communist Party
ar of 1900
8. The emissary of King George III who - in 1793 - attempted to extend British trade with China. He and Britain were denied by the emperor.
Prince Gautama/Buddha
Lord George Macartney
Middle Kingdom
Extraterritoriality
9. From 1644-1911 - this dynasty accepted foreign rulers as leaders of tributary states - subservient to China.
Neo-Confucianism
Middle Kingdom
Kang Youwei
Qing Dynasty
10. (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.
Paris Peace Conference
Prince Shotuki
Puyi
Opium
11. 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
Karma
Treaty Of Nanjing
'United Front'
12. 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.
Most Favored Nation
Treaty Of Nanjing
Manchus
Warlords
13. 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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14. The series of twenty books written by Confucius's students cataloguing his teachings; he himself never wrote any of his ideas down.
The Analects
Factories
Cixi
Taiping Rebellion
15. 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.
Paris Peace Conference
Opium War
Cixi
Tributary System
16. 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.
Neo-Confucianism
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chiang Kai-Shek
Prince Gautama/Buddha
17. 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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18. 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.
Prince Shotuki
'United Front'
Hong Xiuquan
Hong Kong
19. 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 Land System and Heavenly Dynasty'
Sun Yat Sen
Late Qing Reforms
Kang Youwei
20. 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.
Puyi
Dynastic Cycles
Warlords
Revolutionary Alliance
21. Also 'Kongzi -' the Chinese name for Confucius meaning 'Master Kong'
Kang Youwei
Kongfuzi
3 People's Principle
War of Resistance
22. 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
Revolutionary Alliance
Treaty Of Nanjing
'United Front'
Hundred Days Reform
23. 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
Republic of China
andate of Heaven
Puyi
24. 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.
Daoism
Boxer Protocol
Imperialism
The Six Arts of Confucius
25. 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.
Opium
Daoism
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
'United Front'
26. 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.
Daodejing
Revolutionary Alliance
War of Resistance
December 8 - 1949
27. A part of a treaty guaranteeing that a nation be granted any right given to another nation.
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
Most Favored Nation
Late Qing Reforms
3 People's Principle
28. 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
Factories
Chiang Kai-Shek
Northern Expedition
Most Favored Nation
29. The emissary of King George III who - in 1793 - attempted to extend British trade with China. He and Britain were denied by the emperor.
Treaty Of Nanjing
Opium
Lord George Macartney
Hoppo
30. 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.
Hong Kong
3 People's Principle
Chiang Kai-Shek
Canton System
31. 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.
Kongfuzi
October 1 - 1949
Macao
Spheres of Influence
32. 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.
3 People's Principle
Koutou
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
Factories
33. The perceived right to rule granted the emperor by supernatural powers - making him above the common people.
andate of Heaven
Daodejing
Revolutionary Alliance
Long March
34. 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
People's Revolutionary Army
Paris Peace Conference
Buddhism
35. An alternative to Confucianism recommending activity in accord with nature with emphasis on little government intervention and and 'action of inaction.'
Daoism
Warlords
Hoppo
Late Qing Reforms
36. 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.
Revolutionary Alliance
Sun Yat Sen
Canton System
Chiang Kai-Shek
37. 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
Factories
Sino-Japanese War
Boxer Rebellion
38. 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.
Taiping Rebellion
War of Resistance
Prince Shotuki
andate of Heaven
39. The war following the Boxer Rebellion which was the largest conflict between China and the west.
The Six Arts of Confucius
ar of 1900
Qing Dynasty
Republic of China
40. The government formed by Sun Yat Sen's revolutionaries in 1912.
December 8 - 1949
Opium War
Republic of China
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
41. The capital of the Taiping rebellion captures from the Qing dynasty in 1853.
Puyi
Boxer Protocol
Chiang Kai-Shek
Nanjing
42. (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)
The Six Arts of Confucius
Long March
Daoism
43. The party formed by Sun Yat Sen after He was excluded from the new Republic of China.
Treaty Of Nanjing
Daoism
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
Taiping Rebellion
44. An alternative to Confucianism recommending activity in accord with nature with emphasis on little government intervention and and 'action of inaction.'
Mao Zedong
Revolutionary Alliance
Daoism
Prince Shotuki
45. 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.
Spheres of Influence
Paris Peace Conference
Manchus
Neo-Confucianism
46. 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.
October 1 - 1949
Paris Peace Conference
Qing Dynasty
Hong Kong
47. 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.
Lun Yu (Record of Conversation)
Dynastic Cycles
Opium
Late Qing Reforms
48. 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.
Confucius
Most Favored Nation
Late Qing Reforms
Buddhism
49. Also 'Kongzi -' the Chinese name for Confucius meaning 'Master Kong'
Kongfuzi
Tributary System
Dynastic Cycles
Imperialism
50. 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
ar of 1900
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
ar of 1900
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