China Flashcards

1
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first president

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Sun Yat Sen

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2
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Yuan Shikai

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Manchu side and wanted an authoritative government

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3
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Sun Yat sen saying

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“double yoke of imperialism would be overthrown” - foreign power and manchu

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4
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warlords maximum power

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1916

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5
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creation of the CCP

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1919

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6
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what created the CCp

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Cultural revolution

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7
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First conference of CCP

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1921 - in Shanghai

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8
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GMD

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Also being created in 1921
Sun Yat Sen Regime
Nationalist

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9
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Chiang Kai Shek

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GMD leader

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10
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CCP and guomindang

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alliance in 1924
to remove twin evils
didnt have resources indivudually

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11
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twin evils

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influence of warlords and foreign power

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12
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28 B

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Bolsheviks - very powerful in CCP

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13
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How did the alliance help the CCP?

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59 members-58,000

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14
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Northern Expedition

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1926-28
attack on the warlord by the CCP and GMD

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15
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White Terror

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1927
purge of the CCP by chiang Kai shek
political repression of the people

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16
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Nanjing government

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1928-37
formed by Chiang Kai Shek - have all the power and be at the highest seat of power

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16
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Machiavellian aspect

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everyone was involved in the process

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16
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sinification of marxism

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put peasants at forefront

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16
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Jiang Xi

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1931-34
an area that was a safe haven for CCP post purges
mao key leader

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17
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Futian

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1930
Purge of the CCP member by party itself- 4000
message - party of Mao wouldn’t tolerate any deviation and would eliminate any enemies

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18
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The Long March

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1934
CCP had tried fighting against the GMD but the guerilla tactics had failed against the block house tactics
retreat from jiang xi

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19
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The Long March details

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6250 miles total
80k-100k but only 30k survived
had to overcome natural hazards
massive defeats
crossing of dadu river - very significant
treated the local communities with a lot of respect as they went along - very important

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20
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Rectification campaigns

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1942-45
Known as self criticism sessions for doubts and secrets
20% of all members eliminated

20
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Yanan

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1935-45
after jiang xi went here and started setting up policies, reforms and governments

21
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Civil War

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1945-49
between CCP and GMD
Win of the CCP

22
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consolidation of power

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1949
became a one party state

23
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1st campaign

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3 Anti movement
1951
against party officials members businesses etc.

24
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2nd campaign

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1951
5 Anti movement
against everyone who evaded taxes, stole government property, cheated government contracts, bribery etc.

25
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3rd campaign

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  • against intellectuals teachers lawyers artists journalist people with bookish knowledge
    • Tried to limit them because they could question ideology
    • Similar from idea of socialist realism from Russia
26
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Gao Gang and Rao Rashi Affair

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1954
terror - purging

27
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100 Flowers Movement

27
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1958

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1 million party members expelled or sent to rural areas for education

27
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Laogi

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labour camps for reeducation

28
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Agrarian Reform

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1950
abolishment of land ownership by the feudal lords

28
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On the path to communism

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Aug-Sept 1957

29
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Speak Bitterness Campaign

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1950
Chinese peasant farmers the opportunity to express their anger and sorrow about old injustices

30
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1950-52 agriculture stats

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figures of production of agriculture went up to 15%
not enough for growing population

31
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Mutual Aid Teams

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1953
7-10 families to share resources and animals

32
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Lower level collectives

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1954
30-40 families

33
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Higher level APCs

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1956-58
300-400 families farming
75 million households - 63% of peasant population in APCs

34
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First Five Year Plan

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agriculture needed to push idea of industrialisation
1953–57

35
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The Great Leap Forward

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1958
mass industrialisation
involving the masses

36
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Backyard furnaces

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melt household materials to make steel

37
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No pests movement

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exterminate all sparrows

38
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1958 commune stats

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1958 - 700 million people into 26578 communes

39
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Lysenko

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russian scientist genetically modified crops

40
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Famine

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1959-61
30 million people died
1/4th of the population wiped out in Sichuan and Hainan
1/5th of the population wiped out in tibet

41
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three bitter years

42
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Lushan Conference

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1959
Peng Duhai - he was dismissed from his job - sent a message that no one was allowed to acknowledge

43
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The Retreat

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1961-62
Mao was forced to retire
shift to light industry
fragmentation of communes

44
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Socialist Education Movement (SEM)

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1962-65
way of crushing his political opponents and establishing his personal authority

wanted to involved the poor and lower middle peasant associations to supervise the work of the party cadres

Machiavellian aspect - he has lost that power and control and needs a way to come back to power

45
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The Red Book

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1960 - reassert power

communal readings of the book were organised to indoctrinate the chinese people with maos teaching

46
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PLA

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peoples liberation army

47
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Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

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1965
to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation

48
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1964

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rectification in cultural domain of education begins

49
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Swims across the Yantzi river

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1966

was a propaganda stand so that people could see what an amazing and able ruler he was and was capable of doing more for china - increase in support from masses

50
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Mao dies in