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China from 1949
1949 to present
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International Studies
Undergraduate 3
12/11/2010

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Term
Tank Man
Definition

Occurred on June 4, 1989 

Tiananmen Square 

Unknown man who stood up to tank 

Brought CCP to base level of maintaining power. 

Term
CCP Maintenance of Power
Definition

2nd Paper

Maintains power through coercion 

Media control 

Performance based control (economy)

Term
Great Firewall
Definition

Internet supervision by CCP

bad things said about party are filtered 

Cannot visit external media sites

Cannot visit humanitarian sites critical of China 

Term
Women's Rights
Definition

Confucian look men are to hold more powerful roll than women

Job is to maintain family 

Women cant gain power without having children

No laws against domestic violence seen as family matter

Term
Anti Japanese Sentiment
Definition

Chinese hate Japanese 

Japan took land from China during Qing dynasty

Sino Japanese ware killed many chinese

Japan hides atrocities against china 

China Boycotts japanese goods

Term
Tibet Relations
Definition

China has ruled tibet since 1950

Term

    Xinjiang

 

Definition

Geographic northwestern China

mostly farming economy 

Term
Anti Rightest Campaign
Definition

Started by Mao

1950s 1960s

Effort to purge communist party of rightest

led to persecution of 550k

Term
Great Leap Forward
Definition

set of policies put in place by Mao starting in 1954

Main focus collectivizing land

1958 private land ownership abolished

abolished religion and made other social norms illegal to practice

ended with famine because of less production due to collectivization 

Term
Famine
Definition

1958-1961

cause by the great leap forward

collectivizing land led to less production

many farmers forced to change profession to steel industry 

 

Term
Cultural Revolution
Definition

1966-1976

launched by mao

old ideas of culture not welcome

red guard first paper

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Hundred Flowers Movement
Definition

1956 1957 

may a hundred flowers blossom and a new school of thought be born 

criticism was encouraged by mao 

free speech was promoted then taken away 

Most believe Mao did this to expose rightest 

 

Term
Mao's writings 
Definition

Philosophical and Political

"most famous quotations from Mao"

more commonly known as the little red book 

Term
Gang of Four 
Definition

Leftist faction comprised of CCP officials

controlled communist party through latter stages of cultural rev

led by Jiang Qing

blammed by hau as the cause of the excess during the cultural rev (murders oppression) 

Term
democracy wall
Definition

began in december 1978

Houng Xiang promoted the wall

wall ended in 1979 because it turned critical 

free speech advocated then suppressed 

 

Term

Falun Gong Movement

 

Definition

Started in 1992

Li Hongzhi 

Multi fasciated group of beliefs that mean different things to different people

slow moving exercises, meditation.

 

Term
One Child Family 
Definition

Started in 1978

Chosen population control method of CCP

Enforced at every level of government

Receives criticism from multiple civil rights groups 

Term
Mao
Definition

Led CCP from 1949-1976

 

Term
Tiananmen uprising
Definition

occurred in 1989

brought CCP to base level of controlling power 

Term
SARS
Definition

Began in China

Given Rocognition by WHO in Feb

China gives recognition in march 

News doesnt report on SARS until March

Good indicator that things not recognized by the party aren't covered in media

 

Term
HIV
Definition

Most commonly spread through IV drug use in south and Prostitution

Blood collection has also infected people

Government intervention has risen as more people have become infected over the years

 

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