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Econ 304
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Economics
Undergraduate 3
06/01/2009

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South Korea
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Park Chung Hee served as President, centralized power, and nationalized banking
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Japan (review)
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educated males in large companies enjoy early retirement and generous severance pay
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both Japan (review) and Germany
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in Axis during WWII
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Japan (review)
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practices weak monetary policy, including limited open market operations and a low reserve requirement
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new, reunified Germany
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high productivity, shortest workweek
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Japan (review)
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provides few transfers, a minimal safety net, and makes little attempt to redistribute incomes
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Japan (review)
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annexed Formosa
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Japan (review)
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workforce is tied to single firms by benefits which inhibit job mobility
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North Korea
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practices Cult of Personality in which citizens are expected to worship "the Kims"
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Japan (review)
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highest standard of living if gauged by longevity and education
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Both Japan (review) and Germany
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in the G8
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South Korea
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its Hyundai, Samsung, Daewoo have been somewhat restructured
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new, reunified Germany
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is in EMU
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North Korea
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does not practice any form of market capitalism
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Japan (review)
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exports high tech finished products and enjoys largest trade surplus in the world
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new, reunified Germany
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has a social market economy
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South Korea
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lacks cartel-like business organizations which are centered on a bank, but instead has family-based business conglomerates
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North Korea
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currently practices socialism
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South Korea
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promotes exports in the 1960's, developed heavy and chemical industries in the 1970's and then attempted an economic liberalization under Chun Doo Hwan
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new, reunified Germany
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recently experienced severe macroeconomic turmoil, including contraction and deflation
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both Japan (review) and Germany??
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practices state-directed capitalism using input from a national alliance of government, banking and industry
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Japan (review)
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fastest growing post-WWII economy, 1950 until the early 1990's
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Japan (review)
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currently experiencing the most financial stress from bad loans. Banking sector especially implicated
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Japan (review)
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protects its domestic industries through bureaucratic red tape rather than with restricted quotas or import tariffs
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North Korea
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enjoys notorious "Hermit Kingdom" status
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Japan (review)
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accused of dumping products in American markets to maintain trade surplus
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South Korea
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uses chaebol
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North Korea
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the greatest governmental ownership of means of production
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North Korea
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currently practices the greatest degree of command planning
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South Korea
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practices a guided capitalism
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new, reunified Germany
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recently experiencing the so-called "fading miracle"
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Helmut Kohl, Gerhard Schroeder
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held office of Chancellor of the new reunified Germany
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Adolf Hitler
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led "national socialist" party, also held office of Chancellor
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Walter Ulbricht
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led East Germany, slowly nationalizing industries and allowing a small private sector
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Ludwig Erhard
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is considered the architect of FRG's post-WWII economy
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Adolf Hitler
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ejected Jewish scientists who later worked on America's Manhattan Project
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Otto con Bismarck
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established first government-run health insurance, social security, and workers' compensation
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citizens of former West Germany
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resented equal wage policy since productivity differed. Also resented for 1-for-1 currency exchange
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citizens of former East Germany
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had no entrepreneurial class other than the owners of small businesses in a small private sector
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citizens of former West Germany
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consider former German Democratic Republic citizens as freeloaders
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citizens of former West Germany
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feel their taxes are squandered on those conditioned to be lazy and lacking initiative
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citizens of former East Germany
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previously enjoyed macroeconomic stability, income equality with a substantial safety net, public housing and transportation and almost zero inflation
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citizens of former East Germany
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previously suffered from low standard of living and extensive pollution, especially from coal-burning
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citizens of former East Germany
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viewed former Federal Republic of Germany as an "American Colony"
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citizens of former East Germany
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enjoyed high labor participation and equal pay for both men and women
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citizens of former East Germany
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experienced "Big Bang" transformation from command socialism to a form of market capitalism
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citizens of former West Germany
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were aided by the Marshall Plan
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citizens of former East Germany
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were included in the CMEA
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True
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T/F: Germany has a 2-party system, much like the US. This is due primarily to the US political model established during the American occupation post WWII
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False
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T/F: Swedish corporatism, German co-determination and Japanese enterprise unions are similar in that in all three, both labor and owner/management work toward consensus
(Hint: is labor "at the table"?)
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True
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T/F: Historically, German strengths include high-tech vocational training (apprenticeship/journeymen), strong banking, and dominating automotive, chemical, textile and machinery industries
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True
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T/F: Current German weaknesses include high unemployment, a significant budget deficit, and increasing strength and violence by new-Nazi skinheads
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False
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T/F: Germany is more "state-directed" than is Japan
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T/F: Germany has higher personal income taxes and greater tax progressivity than does Sweden
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False
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T/F: German conservatives believe too-generous labor practices have resulted in Eurosclerosis
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False
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T/F: In 1919 Japanese demonstrated in a non-violent pro-independence movement and were harshly suppressed by the Koreans
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False
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T/F: The GDR experienced the "economic miracle"
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True
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T/F: Post-WWII, the occupying forces of the US demanded that both Japanese zaibatsu and German Kombinaten be dissolved, due to their possible contribution to intensifying nationalism
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True
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T/F: The ROK values education and a Confucian work ethic, the DPRK does not
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disallowed labor unions
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gender equality
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only DPRK and GDR
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low standard of living, equal distribution of civilian income, low Gini coefficient
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Nazi Germany only
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capitalistic
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Nazi Germany, GDR and DPRK
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command economies
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Russia
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nation Kim II-sung rejected as too revisionist after 1953
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PRC
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nation Kim II-sung most emulated until the late 1970's
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Japan
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nation that annexed both Formosa and Korea
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ROK
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its current President is Roh Moo-hyun
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DPRK
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its current President is Kim Jong-il
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Taiwan Straight
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body of water that lies between ROC and PRC
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Sea of Japan
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body of water that lies west of Japan
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East China Sea
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body of water that lies between ROK and ROC
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Chiang Kai-Shek
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led the Nationalist Guomindang to power in 1928, ending period of Warlordism
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Chiang Kai-Shek
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wrote book which forecast a great future for China if China followed Confucianism
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Mao Zedong
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pursued egalitarianism and regional self-sufficiency
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Mao Zedong
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led Great Proletarian Culture Revolution, 1966-69
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Mao Zedong
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campaigned against the "Four Olds"
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Mao Zedong
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supported Stalin against "revisionists" Khrushchev and Tito
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Chiang Kai-Shek
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most recently died
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TVE's
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this dynamic form is the unique innovation of the self-proclaimed socialist market economy
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CCP
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this grew out of the May Fourth Movement of 1919 which protested turning Chinese Territory over to Japan
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GPCR
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assaulted traditional culture and social values
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GPCR
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organized countryside into large communes
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TVE's
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rural industrial enterprises owned by local units of government, the towns and villages that formerly comprised the communes, and lower level brigades
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Legalism
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supported absolute power of the authoritarian State
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market socialism
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state-owned firms operating in competitive markets adjusted by a central planner
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socialistic market economy
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TVE's, reforms, looser rules on private enterprise - CCP declared this the desired economic form
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Taoism
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associated with laissez faire, we wei (no action)
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official Confucianism
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opposed commerce, industrialization, and relations with the outside world. Wanted foreign barbarians to kowtow and pay tribute
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Analects
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written by Confucius
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the "Little Red Book"
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also called Quotations of Chairman Mao
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Tao Te Ching (two philosophies)
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written by Lao-tzu (604-?BC)
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land-to-tiller program
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forced all landlords to sell to tenants in exchange for government bonds
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Period of Adjustment
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policy shift which resulted in growth in agriculture and industry
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Four Modernizations
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agriculture, industry, science and technology, and national defense
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Guomindang
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retreated to Taiwan when Mao Zedong came to power on the mainland
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Great Leap Forward
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resulted in deceleration of industrial output growth and a catastrophe in agriculture, the worst famine anywhere ever
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e) all of the above
Definition
China currently faces severe problems including which of the following?

a) a major energy/environment crisis
b) threat of inflation and political instability and dissent
c) rising income inequalities
d) absorption of Hong Kong and perhaps, eventually Taiwan
e) all of the above
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Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing
Definition
The six most important Chinese dynasties are, IN ORDER... (first-last)
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PRC
Definition
the only one of the three which has had a Communist revolution
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Hong Kong
Definition
one of the world's most laissez faire economies
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PRC
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has promised in a joint declaration, one country, two systems
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ROC
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its EPZ's may be models for PRC's SEZ's
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Definition
largely capitalistic with a Confucian tradition
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PRC
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would like to absorb Taiwan
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ROC
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economy closely resembles those of Japan and South Korea
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PRC
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huge, rural, poor but fairly egalitarian
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ROC
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controlled by Japan from 1895-1945
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False
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T/F: The household responsibility system resulted in decreased food output and declines in rural incomes
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True
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T/F: The three Chinese religions, like those of Japan, are Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism, the latter originating in India and arriving in China by way of the Silk Road
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True
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T/F: A student uprising was violently suppressed in Tianamen Square in the capital, Beijing (Peking) in 1989
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True
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T/F: The Communists are seen by Chinese as the latest dynasty and are subject to a rise and fall cycle associated with previous dynasties
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False
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T/F: After the Opium Wars, Great Britain was banished from Hong Kong and lost its right to import opium into China
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False
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T/F: Under Mao, China had one of the least equal income distributions ever observed, but Dengist marketization resulted in greater income equality
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