Founding father of the People's Republic of China and first Chairman of the Communist Party of China.
Who is Mao Zedong?
100
Goals set by Zhou Enlai to strengthen agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology
What are the four modernizations
100
This party came to power in 1949 and is now the sole governing power in China.
What is the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)?
200
An autonomous region of Southwest China; formerly a theocracy and the centre of Lamaism: invaded by China in 1950; rebellion against Chinese rule suppressed and the Dalai Lama fled to India; military rule imposed after continued demands for independence.
What is Tibet
200
A major leader of the communist party bureaucracy, and a major leader of China from 2002-2012.
Who is Hu Jintao?
200
A legal entity that undertakes commercial activities on behalf of an owner government. Their legal status varies from being a part of government to stock companies with a state as a regular stockholder.
What is a state-owned enterprise
200
The movement that began in 1956 in communist China to remove restrictions that limited free speech and thought.
What is the Hundred Flowers Campaign?
200
An illicit chinese spiritual excercise group that recently received international attention.
What is Falum Gong
300
A sovereign state in East Asia. The Republic of China, originally based in mainland China, now governs the island, which makes up over 99% of its territory
What is Taiwan
300
Career minded bureaucrats who administer public policy according to a technical rather than political rationale.
What are Technocrats
300
The government allows these to utilize an economic management system that is more attractive to doing business than in the rest of mainland China.
What are Special Economic Zones
300
During this time period in China (beginning 1966), Mao Zedong wanted the nation’s youth to fix the "impure elements of Chinese society" and bring back the revolutionary spirit that had previously led them to civil war victory and the formation of the People’s Republic of China.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
300
Political faction made of four communist leaders who gained popularity during the cultural revolution, but were later charged with treason.
What is the gang of four
400
Chinese communist leader and revolutionary, ruling china starting in 1978.
Who is Deng Xiaoping
400
A unit, or a place of employment in Communist China
What is a danwei
400
troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military's advance towards the heart of Beijing, which student and other demonstrators had occupied for seven weeks.
What is Tiananmen Square Massacre
400
A large political party that supports a socialist ideology. Also known as the Chinese Nationalist Party.
What is Kuominintang?
500
Paramilitary social movement of young people during the chinese Cultural Revolution.
What is the Red Guard?
500
Big-character poster used by Maoists during the cultural revolution
What is a dazhibao
500
The 6,000 mile trek of the Chinese communists which led to the relocation of the communist base and Mao Zedong's rise to party leader.
What is the Long March?
500
A part of the executive branch, this group comprises the top leaders of the Communist Party of China. It's 205 members meet annually for a week and are elected for five-year terms by the National Party Congress.