China Vocab

Question 1

charismatic legitimacy

Answer 1

a type of leadership in which authority derives from the charisma of the leader

Question 2

Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

Answer 2

sole governing political party of the People’s Republic of China

Question 3

cult of personality

Answer 3

a country’s regime uses the techniques of mass media, propaganda, the big lie, spectacle, the arts, patriotism, and government-organized demonstrations and rallies to create an idealized image of a leader

Question 4

democratic centralism

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the Leninist organizational system in which policy is decided centrally and is binding on all members

Question 5

foreign direct investment (FDI)

Answer 5

an investment in the form of a controlling ownership in a business in one country by an entity based in another country

Question 6

GONGOs

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government organized NGOs (a nonprofit organization that operates independently of any government, typically one whose purpose is to address a social or political issue)

Question 7

Great Firewall

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the combination of legislative actions and technologies enforced by the People’s Republic of China to regulate the Internet domestically

Question 8

Great Leap Forward

Answer 8

• an economic and social campaign led by the Chinese Communist Party from 1958 to 1962.
• campaign to reconstruct the country from an agrarian economy into a communist society through the formation of people’s communes

Question 9

Han Chinese

Answer 9

92% of the ethnic population of China

Question 10

mass line

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the political, organizational and leadership method developed by Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) during the Chinese revolution

Question 11

model of sustainable development

Answer 11

sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

Question 12

nomenklatura

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referred to the Communist Party’s governance to make appointments to key positions throughout the governmental system, as well as throughout the party’s own hierarchy

Question 13

one country, two systems

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a policy to integrate Hong Kong into China

Question 14

rational-legal legitimacy

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a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to legal rationality

Question 15

red lines

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an unspoken understanding against criticizing the government or the party on independent media

Question 16

special economic zones (SEZs)

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an area in a country that is subject to different economic regulations than other regions within the same country

Question 17

State Council

Answer 17

• the chief administrative authority of the People’s Republic of China.
• It is chaired by the premier and includes the heads of each of the cabinet-level executive departments.

Question 18

state-owned enterprises (SOEs)

Answer 18

a legal entity that is created by a government in order to partake in commercial activities on the government’s behalf