Case Study: China

Question 1

Xi Jinping’s sweeping campaign against graft and other forms of corruption, launched in 2012 and used both to tackle government malfeasance at all levels and eliminate political rivals

Answer 1

Anticorruption Campaign

Question 2

China’s huge infrastructure development and investment project launched in 2013, designed to link China to the rest of Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and beyond

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Belt and Road Initiative

Question 2

Neo mercantilist model of state - led capitalist development adopted by China and proposed as an alternative to the Western neoliberal model known as the Washington Consensus

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Beijing Consensus

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China’s self described long century (1839-1949) of intervention and exploitation at the hands of Western and Japanese imperialists

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Century of Humiliation

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Authoritarian party that has ruled China from 1949 to the present

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Chinese Communist Party (CCP)

Question 5

Paramount leader Xi Jinping’s policy vision calling for China’s national rejuvenation, modernization, and prosperity

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Chinese Dream

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Philosophy attributed to Chinese sage Confucius (551-479 b.c.e), emphasizing social harmony

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Confucianism

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Mao’s radical movement launched in 1966 to regain political control from rivals, resulting in a decade of social and political chaos

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Cultural Revolution

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Maoist program providing all Chinese citizens lifetime affiliation with a work unit governing all aspects of their lives

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Danwei System

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Paramount leader (1978 - 97) who launched China’s policy of economic reform and opening

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Xiaoping Deng

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Meditative martial arts movement founded in 1992 and banned by the Chinese government in 1999 as an “evil cult”

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Falun Gong

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China’s roughly 300 million itinerant peasants who have been leaving the country side to seek urban employment since the 1990’s

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Floating Population

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Mao’s disastrous 1958-60 effort to modernize China through localized industrial production and agricultural communes

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Great Leap Forward

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CCP propaganda term for the continuation of economic reform but with more concern for the growing wealth and welfare gap between urban and rural China

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Harmonious Society

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Deng’s highly successful 1980’s rural reform program that lowered production quotas and allowed the sale of surplus agricultural produce on the (legislature)

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Household Responsibility System

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China’s paramount leader from 2002 to 2012

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Jintao Hu

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Maoist program that tied all Chinese to a particular geographic location

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Hukou System

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Program (1956-57) in which Mao encouraged intellectuals to offer criticism of national policy, followed by crackdown on critics

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Hundred Flowers Campaign

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Term for Mao’s promise of cradle-to-grave health care, work, and retirement security, which has largely disappeared under reform and opening

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Iron Rice bowl

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Deng’s successor in the 1990’s as China’s paramount leader

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Zemin Jiang

Question 20

‘China’s nationalist party founded by Sun-Yat-Sen and led by Chiang Kaishek, who was overthrown by Mao’s communists in 1949 and forced to flee to Taiwan

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Kuomintang

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China’s premier and head of government (2013-present)

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Keqiang Li

Question 22

The CCP’s 6000 - mile heroic retreat (1934 - 35) to northwestern China during the country’s civil war with the Chinese Nationalist Party, the KMT

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Long March

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Leader of the Chinese communist revolution, who dominated Chinese politics from the founding of the PRC until his death in 1976

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Zedong Mao

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Student-led anti-imperialist, cultural and political movement growing out of student demonstration in Beijing on May 4, 1919

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May Fourth Movement

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Chinese Communist Party’s cumbersome representative body; more akin to a national political party convention

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National Party Congress

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China’s national legislature

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National People’s Congress

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Term for China’s guarantee to Hong Kong of 50 years of domestic autonomy as a “special administrative region” after the British colony was returned to China in 1997

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One country, Two systems

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China’s military

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People’s liberation army

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Private entrepreneurs who are also members of the CCP and whose interests generally align with those of the party - state

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Red Capitalists

Question 30

Radicalized youth who served as Mao’s shock troops during the Cultural revolution

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Red Guards

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Term describing Mao’s policy favoring politically indoctrinated party cadres (Red) over those people who had economic training (experts)

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Reds versus Experts

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Deng’s economic liberalization policy, starting in late 1970’s

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Reform and Opening

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State-implemented behavioral modification system that tracks the economic and social actions of Chinese citizens and businesses, in in conjunction to how communist they are

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Social Credit System

Question 34

Enclaves established since 1979 by the Chinese government that have offered tax breaks and other incentives to lure foreign investment

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Special Economic Zones

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Historic plaza in Beijing where the Chinese party-state crushed the 1989 pro-reform and anti communist party demonstration

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Tiananmen Square

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Founder of China’s nationalist party and considered the father of modern China

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Sun Yat-sen

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Jiang Zemin’s 2001 policy co-opting private entrepreneurs into the CCP

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Three Represents

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China’s paramount leader, serving simultaneously as head of the party (CCP general secretary) head of state (PRC president), and head of the military (CMC chairman)

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Jinping Xi

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Ethnic muslim, turkie minority residing in China’s northwestern Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region, subject in recent years to intensive efforts of forced assimilation

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Uighurs