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1. 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.
Revolutionary Alliance
Self-Strengthening Movement'
May 4th Movement
Prince Gautama/Buddha
2. 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.
Han Chinese
Confucius
Yuan Shikai
Cixi
3. (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.
Prince Shotuki
Taiping Rebellion
Hong Kong
Sino-Japanese War
4. The living quarters of foreign traders which were blockaded for 47 days with 350 inside. This action by Commissioner Lin led to the Opium War.
Kang Youwei
Factories
December 8 - 1949
Five Cardinal Relationships
5. 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
Sun Yat Sen
Chinese Communist Party
Canton/Guangzhou
Five Cardinal Relationships
6. Meaning 'barbarian -' this word showed China's belief that outsiders were evil - uncivilized or deserving of scorn.
Paris Peace Conference
Prince Shotuki
ManYi
Sun Yat Sen
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.
Five Cardinal Relationships
Boxer Rebellion
Karma
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
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.
Opium War
The Six Arts of Confucius
Daoism
Self-Strengthening Movement'
9. The military of the Chinese Communist Party which was nearly destroyed in 1934 - but eventually reorganized and regrew its power.
ManYi
Qing Dynasty
Hoppo
Red Army
10. 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
Lun Yu (Record of Conversation)
Karma
Imperialism
Japanese occupation of Shangdong
11. 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.
Yuan Shikai
3 People's Principle
Tributary System
ManYi
12. The single port that British and foreign traders could access before the Opium War.
Middle Kingdom
Canton/Guangzhou
Opium War
3 People's Principle
13. The living quarters of foreign traders which were blockaded for 47 days with 350 inside. This action by Commissioner Lin led to the Opium War.
Treaty Of Nanjing
Factories
Hoppo
Koutou
14. Ritual - music - mathematics - history - archery and charioteering were the core of Confucianism educations - designed to produce rounded and moral gentlemen.
Republic of China
The Six Arts of Confucius
Civil War
Nanjing
15. 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.
Most Favored Nation
Nanjing
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
Revolutionary Alliance
16. 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.
Opium War
Hoppo
3 People's Principle
Mao Zedong
17. 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
Prince Shotuki
Confucius
Kang Youwei
18. 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.
Most Favored Nation
andate of Heaven
Cixi
Han Chinese
19. 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.
Hoppo
Factories
Mao Zedong
Factories
20. Three ideas laid out in 1903 in Sun Yat Sen's writings: nationalism - democracy - and the people's livelihood.
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21. 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.
Lord George Macartney
'United Front'
Opium
Nanjing
22. Areas in China dominated and funded by foreign - often European - countries. Technically - these were still under Chinese rule.
Spheres of Influence
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
Hundred Days Reform
Canton System
23. 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.
Daodejing
Manchus
Middle Kingdom
Treaty Of Nanjing
24. The series of twenty books written by Confucius's students cataloguing his teachings; he himself never wrote any of his ideas down.
Hundred Days Reform
Chinese Communist Party
Opium
The Analects
25. 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.
andate of Heaven
Opium
Treaty Of Nanjing
Manchus
26. The party formed by Sun Yat Sen after He was excluded from the new Republic of China.
Hong Xiuquan
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
War of Resistance
Kongfuzi
27. A part of a treaty guaranteeing that a nation be granted any right given to another nation.
Han Chinese
Opium War
Most Favored Nation
Late Qing Reforms
28. 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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29. 1858-1927 A Confucian scholar - imperial loyalist - and leader of the Hundred Days Reform in the late 19th century.
Karma
andate of Heaven
Kang Youwei
Sino-Japanese War
30. The date that Chiang Kai-Shek and the Guomindang fled the mainland to form the ROC on the island of Taiwan.
Puyi
Paris Peace Conference
December 8 - 1949
Red Army
31. The official appointed by the Chinese government Who was in charge of taxes and control of trade - with whom foreign traders were not permitted to speak.
Hoppo
War of Resistance
Five Cardinal Relationships
Koutou
32. 1858-1927 A Confucian scholar - imperial loyalist - and leader of the Hundred Days Reform in the late 19th century.
Kongfuzi
Kang Youwei
Manchus
Sun Yat Sen
33. An alternative to Confucianism recommending activity in accord with nature with emphasis on little government intervention and and 'action of inaction.'
Sun Yat Sen
Mao Zedong
Imperialism
Daoism
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.
Tributary System
Northern Expedition
Manchus
War of Resistance
35. 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.
Kang Youwei
Occupation of Manchuria/Manchukuo
October 10. 1911/Double Ten/1911 Revolution
Hundred Days Reform
36. 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.
Macao
Han Chinese
Treaty Of Nanjing
andate of Heaven
37. 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.
Daoism
Mao Zedong
Warlords
Paris Peace Conference
38. Also 'Kongzi -' the Chinese name for Confucius meaning 'Master Kong'
Kongfuzi
Long March
ManYi
Factories
39. 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.
People's Revolutionary Army
Tributary System
Commissioner Lin
Macao
40. 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.
Kongfuzi
Boxer Rebellion
Nationalist Party/Guomindang
Republic of China
41. 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
Puyi
Hong Xiuquan
Hong Kong
42. 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.
Middle Kingdom
Extraterritoriality
Han Chinese
Chinese Communist Party
43. 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
Hong Kong
Dynastic Cycles
ManYi
44. The last of China's emperors - a six year old boy - who gave up his throne on Feb. 12 - 1912.
'United Front'
Canton System
3 People's Principle
Puyi
45. 'The Canon of the Way' was a book of poetry by Laozi - the old master - outlining the core principles of Daoism.
Daodejing
Buddhism
Chiang Kai-Shek
People's Revolutionary Army
46. 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.
May 4th Movement
Red Army
Civil War
Revolutionary Alliance
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.
Dynastic Cycles
Cixi
Taiping Rebellion
Neo-Confucianism
48. 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.
Karma
Confucius
Lun Yu (Record of Conversation)
Boxer Rebellion
49. 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.
Five Cardinal Relationships
Mao Zedong
Opium War
Qing Dynasty
50. The series of twenty books written by Confucius's students cataloguing his teachings; he himself never wrote any of his ideas down.
Nanjing
Civil War
The Analects
Hong Kong
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