China Test Flashcards
What is the Hukou System
physically looks like a passport but it restricts where you live
Who are the left behind children
19 million kids do not live with their parents and they most likely live with there grandparents and they are most likely to have sexual abuse or have problems with drugs and alcohol when they get older
What are Gao Caos?
Big exams at the end of middle school and high school that decide where you go to school and basically decide your whole future
Who was Mao Zedong?
He was the chairman of the communist party and children all over China were taught that he was one of the bravest men ever to live in China.
What were some of the actions that the Communist party did to create a classless society?
They got rid of the landowning class and they mocked the scholars who had once ruled China.
Who was Jiang Qing?
Jiang Qing was Chairman Mao’s widow who favored the radical policies or the Cultural Revolution
What is capitalism?
another term for a free market economy, in which the means of production are owned and operated by individuals for profit.
Who was Karl Marx?
Karl Marx was a German philosopher who shaped Mao’s ideas about class struggle.
What is propaganda?
the spread of ideas to promote a cause or damage an opposing cause.
Where do teachers live?
Teachers in China live in school-teacher dorms.
What is the quote that inspired the hundred flowers campaign to be called the hundred flowers campaign
“Let a hundred flowers bloom / Let a hundred schools of thought contend.”
Who was the leader of the Gang of Four
Mao Zedong’s wife, Jiang Qing
In what year was the “late, long, few” campaign
1975
How many people starved to death in the Great Leap Forward?
14 million people
In what year did Chairman Mao die?
1976
What happens during the Chinese New Year
millions of migrant workers buy tickets and try to go home for Chinese New Year: you can be at the station for days
