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Anhui
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Fujian 
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Gansu
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Guangdong
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Guizhou 
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Hainan
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Hebei
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Heilongjong
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Henan
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Hubei
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Hunan
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Jiangsu
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Jianxi
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Jilin
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Liaoning
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Qinghai
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Shaanxi
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Shanxi
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Shandong
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Sichuan
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Yunnan
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Zhejiang
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Guangxi Zhuang
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Autonomous Region
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Inner Mongolia
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Autonomous Region
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Ningxia Hui
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Autonomous Region
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Xinjiang Uyghur
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Autonomous Region
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Tibet
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Autonomous Region
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Hong Kong
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Special Administrative Region
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Macao
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Special Administrative Region
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Beijing
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Municipality
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Tianji
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Municipality
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Shanghai
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Municipality
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Chongqing
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Municipality
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Xia Dynasty
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21-16 Century BC
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Shang Dynasty
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16-11 Century BC
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Zhou Dynasty
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1111 BC - 249 BC
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Qin Dynasty
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221-207 BC
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Han Dynasty
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206 BC - 220 AD
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Three Kingdoms
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220-280
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Jin Dynasty
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265-420
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Southern/Northern Dynasties
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420-589
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Sui Dynasty
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581-618
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Tang Dynasty
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618-907
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Five Dynasties
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907-979
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Liao Dynasty
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947-1125
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Song Dynasty
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960-1279
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Yuan Dynasty
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1279-1368
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Ming Dynasty
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1368-1644
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Qing Dynasty
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1644-1911
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What features of China's imperial political system and governance structure have carried over to influence modern Chinese Politics?
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1. Mandate of heaven

2. Intellectual development

3. Hierarchically arranged government 

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Who were the Key thinkers in the Hundred Schools of Thought?
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Confucius -- restore golden years

Sunzi -- Military strategist

Mozi -- pacifistic, balance of power 

Laozi and Mencius -- founders of Taoism 

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Empress Dowager
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Consented to constitutional monarchy reforms due to pressure from revolutionaries such as Sun Yat-sen
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Constitutional Reform Movement
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Lost momentum as Qing endeavors became increasingly insincere and anti-Chinese
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Rise of Chinese Nationalism
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Decline of Qing Dynasty

Expansion of Japan into China 

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Sun Yat-sen's 3 revolitions in 1 

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1. Nationalistic overthrow of Manchus

2. Democratic revolution to establish republic and popular soverignty

3. Social revolution to equalize land rights and prevent ills of capitalsm 

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What caused the Opium War?
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Treaty of Nanking (1842)
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What five ports were opened to trade during the Opium War?
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Canton, Amoy, Foochow, Ningpo, Shanghai
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When was Hong Kong taken by the British
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1842 Opium War (Treaty of Nanking)
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What marked the entrance of China into the international diplomatic community
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Opium War and cession of Hong Kong
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Who was Kang Youwei and what was his Hundred-Day Reform
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Advocated reforms consistent with reinterpretation of Chinese Confucian thought and constitutional monarchy
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What were the proposals made during the Decline of the Qing Dynasty
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  • Revision of examination system and legal code
  • Establishment of governmental institution bureau and creation of twelve new bureaus to render useless the Grand Council and Six Boards
  • Establishment of Bureaus of people's affairs as local governments
  • Creation of Parliament in Beijing
  • Adoption of Constitution and division of power
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What is a Reactionary
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Native Isolationists
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Boxers
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Reactionaries

Ultraconservatives that resisted western influence 

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What eventually led to the fall of the Qing Dynasty
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Boxer Rebellion
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Sun Yatsen
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Revolutionary who preached Chinese modernization
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Democratic Centralism
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Essentially dictatorship

"Power would be concentrated in the hands of a few in order to guarantee that all class interests are represented" -Mao 

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Since when has China allowed free elections at the village level?
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1989
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Mao Zedong
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Chinese Military and Political leader who led the CCP to victory against the KMT in the Chinese civil war. Leader of the PRC from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976. Very controversial figure who was loved by some for his role as a revolutionary and his ultimate defeat of Chiang Kaishek in the Chinese Civil war. Hated by others because of the disastous Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution
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When did Chaing Kaishek assume leadership of the KMT? Who did he succeed?
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1925

Sun Yat-sen 

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Who was the leader of the KMT and subsequently ROC from 19288-1975
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Chiang Kaishek
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KMT
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Kuimingtang of China, also known as the Chinese Nationalist Party, is a political party in the ROC (aka Taiwan)
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Who founded the KMT? In what year?
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Song Jiaoren and Sun Yat-sen

1912 

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CCP
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Communist Chinese Party
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Where was the CCP founded? In what year?
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Shanghai, 1921
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What led to Mao's takeover of the CCP?
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1927, 4 out of 5 leaders of the CCP were massacred by the KMT.
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How many members are in the CCP?
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More than 70 million
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Jiangxi Soviet
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1931-1934

Established as an independent government by Mao and Zhu De in Jiangxi province in southeast china. led to guerrilla warfare and peasant organization that led to the overthrow of KMT. Jianxi Soviet eventually destroyed by the KMT. 

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Long March
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Massive military retreat undertaken by the Red Army of the CCP to evade the pursuit of the KMT army. End of march sealed power for Mao and his supporters.
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Yanan period
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When some 8000 troups who had survived Long March arrived in Shaanxi province in 1935.

 

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When did Japan invade Manchuria?
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1931
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First United Front
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KMT-CCP Alliance formed in 1924 to end warlordism
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Second United Front
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Alliance between the KMT and CCP during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Suspended Chinese Civil war from 1937-1946.
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When was the Chinese Reconstruction period?
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1949-1953, following the Civil War
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Mao's Political reforms during reconstruction
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Set up similar to Yenan Soviet. Allowed non-party members into government and helped Mao consolidate his power base
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Reconstruction Land Reforms
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Redistributed land to many people, but only small amounts and most people could not do much with it
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reconstruction cultural reforms
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Instigated peasant uprising against landlords

Implemented standardization of Chinese language

Distribution of huge amounts of propaganda

 

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Reconstruction Economic Reforms
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Standardization of Currency

Redistribution of land (had huge problems) 

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