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World History China
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1. 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.
Opium
Buddhism
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
Late Qing Reforms
2. 1858-1927 A Confucian scholar - imperial loyalist - and leader of the Hundred Days Reform in the late 19th century.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Opium War
Treaty Of Nanjing
Kang Youwei
3. 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
May 4th Movement
Middle Kingdom
Extraterritoriality
4. The military of the Chinese Communist Party which was nearly destroyed in 1934 - but eventually reorganized and regrew its power.
Boxer Protocol
Red Army
Five Cardinal Relationships
Long March
5. The racial majority in China - consisting mostly of farmers.
Extraterritoriality
Han Chinese
Canton System
Revolutionary Alliance
6. 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.
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
Taiping Rebellion
Revolutionary Alliance
Mao Zedong
7. 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
Hong Xiuquan
December 8 - 1949
May 4th Movement
8. The perceived right to rule granted the emperor by supernatural powers - making him above the common people.
Tributary System
Opium War
andate of Heaven
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
9. The war following the Boxer Rebellion which was the largest conflict between China and the west.
Warlords
ar of 1900
Opium
Sun Yat Sen
10. 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
Factories
Republic of China
Civil War
Northern Expedition
11. A part of a treaty guaranteeing that a nation be granted any right given to another nation.
Most Favored Nation
'The Land System and Heavenly Dynasty'
Tributary System
Han Chinese
12. The single port that British and foreign traders could access before the Opium War.
ar of 1900
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
Canton/Guangzhou
Prince Gautama/Buddha
13. 'The Canon of the Way' was a book of poetry by Laozi - the old master - outlining the core principles of Daoism.
Taiping Rebellion
Daodejing
Prince Gautama/Buddha
Northern Expedition
14. 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.
Revolutionary Alliance
Mao Zedong
People's Revolutionary Army
Yuan Shikai
15. 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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16. 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
May 4th Movement
Lord George Macartney
Chiang Kai-Shek
Hundred Days Reform
17. Lin Xezu - appointed by the emperor in 1839 to end the opium trade in Guangzhou (Canton).
Commissioner Lin
The Six Arts of Confucius
Sun Yat Sen
Karma
18. (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.
ManYi
Prince Shotuki
Kongfuzi
Chinese Communist Party
19. The 1860s movement by loyalist officials to attempt to modernize China with Western military technology and self sufficiency in weapon production.
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20. The date that Chiang Kai-Shek and the Guomindang fled the mainland to form the ROC on the island of Taiwan.
'United Front'
December 8 - 1949
Opium War
Prince Gautama/Buddha
21. The war following the Boxer Rebellion which was the largest conflict between China and the west.
People's Revolutionary Army
Macao
ar of 1900
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
22. 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.
December 8 - 1949
Civil War
Paris Peace Conference
Lord George Macartney
23. The idea - often in the 19th century - that a country should build up an empire. Ex. 'scramble for Africa'
Factories
Macao
Taiping Rebellion
Imperialism
24. Also 'Kongzi -' the Chinese name for Confucius meaning 'Master Kong'
Kongfuzi
December 8 - 1949
The Six Arts of Confucius
Hong Kong
25. The party formed by Sun Yat Sen after He was excluded from the new Republic of China.
Paris Peace Conference
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
Yuan Shikai
Five Cardinal Relationships
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. 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
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
Extraterritoriality
People's Revolutionary Army
War of Resistance
28. 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.
'United Front'
Hong Xiuquan
Mao Zedong
May 4th Movement
29. Also 'Kongzi -' the Chinese name for Confucius meaning 'Master Kong'
Qing Dynasty
Kongfuzi
Yuan Shikai
Neo-Confucianism
30. 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.
ar of 1900
Buddhism
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
Opium
31. 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.
Extraterritoriality
Koutou
Mao Zedong
Opium War
32. The rival regional military leaders who fought for control of China between 1916 and 1919.
Chiang Kai-Shek
Prince Shotuki
Daoism
Warlords
33. 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
Dynastic Cycles
Koutou
Yuan Shikai
34. 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.
Confucius
3 People's Principle
Lord George Macartney
Hong Xiuquan
35. 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.
Sino-Japanese War
Manchus
Nanjing
Koutou
36. The racial majority in China - consisting mostly of farmers.
Hoppo
Han Chinese
Late Qing Reforms
Northern Expedition
37. 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
Sun Yat Sen
Nanjing
Lun Yu (Record of Conversation)
38. '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.
Extraterritoriality
Prince Gautama/Buddha
Han Chinese
Commissioner Lin
39. 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.
'The Land System and Heavenly Dynasty'
Chiang Kai-Shek
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
40. The capital of the Taiping rebellion captures from the Qing dynasty in 1853.
3 People's Principle
Nanjing
Hoppo
Late Qing Reforms
41. 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
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
May 4th Movement
Koutou
42. 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.
The Analects
Paris Peace Conference
Dynastic Cycles
May 4th Movement
43. 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.
Han Chinese
Warlords
Opium
Cixi
44. 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
Cixi
Hoppo
ManYi
45. The idea - often in the 19th century - that a country should build up an empire. Ex. 'scramble for Africa'
Five Cardinal Relationships
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
Imperialism
46. 'The Canon of the Way' was a book of poetry by Laozi - the old master - outlining the core principles of Daoism.
Buddhism
Daodejing
Yuan Shikai
ar of 1900
47. Meaning 'barbarian -' this word showed China's belief that outsiders were evil - uncivilized or deserving of scorn.
Factories
ManYi
ar of 1900
Northern Expedition
48. 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.
Dynastic Cycles
Self-Strengthening Movement'
Manchus
Canton System
49. 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.
ManYi
'United Front'
War of Resistance
Long March
50. 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.
Buddhism
Red Army
Sun Yat Sen
Puyi