China Flashcards
(100 cards)
1
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where is most of china’s water?
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in the south, but most of its people and farmland are in the north
2
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4 steps of topography
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plateau of Tibet basins and low mountain ranges broad coastal plain and river deltas continental shelf (hong kong and taiwan)
3
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river:
old and broad
nicknamed river of sorrow
color is due to loess
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yellow river
4
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river: young and cuts through narrow valleys nicknamed main street of China 40% pop lives in basin site of 3 gorges dam
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long river
5
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climate
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dry interior
monsoon east
cold in winter
wet, tropical in summer
6
Q
would rank among world’s 25 largest economies
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guangzhou
7
Q
first a fishing village
hosts the world’s largest electronics factory “foxconn city”
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shenzhen
8
Q
means buddha mountain
produces 70% of country’s ceramic products
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foshan
9
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home to world’s largest shopping mall
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dongguan
10
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dirtiest air on earth
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taiwan
11
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30% of china’s urban water is now
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recycled
12
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china is world’s largest producer and consumer of
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coal
13
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agricultural water will soon have to be diverted to
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beijing
14
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filial piety
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deference or respect that children must have for parents
15
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mandate of heaven
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if rulers do not rule harmoniously, then the people may overthrow them
16
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born poor
worked in politics
lived during a politically unstable and difficult time
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confucius
17
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analects
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compilation of confucius’s teachings
18
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reciprocity
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confucius
19
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lead people by moral force
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confucius
20
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legalism
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emphasizes need for order above all else
21
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rabbit stump
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legalism
22
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penalties above humaneness
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legalism
23
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unify laws instead of seeking wise men
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legalism
24
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daoism founded by
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laozi
25
qi
energy, foundation of the universe and the individual
26
immortality is achieved by
directing the natural energy of the body
27
4 elements
wood fire earth metal water
28
yin yang
daoism
29
dao
the way/ source of all things
30
goal of daoism
achieve inner peace power and mental clarity
| live in accordance with nature
31
wu wuei
nonaction
32
acupuncture and acupressure
daoism
33
feng shui
daoism
| means wind and water
34
let the state be small and the people few
daoism
35
buddha
enlightened or awakened one
36
buddhism
the middle way
37
buddhism based on teachings of
prince siddhartha guatama
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siddhartha guatatma
seeked release from cycle of rebirth
found a middle path
organized disciples into a monastic community called sangha
39
nirvana
elimination of dissatisfaction
40
to achieve nirvana follow the
eightfold path
41
life is unsatisfying because of disire
buddhism
42
chinese popular religion
without a doctrine or theology
43
lin zixu
end all traffiking
44
treaty of nanjing
establishment of treaty ports
| hong kong awarded to british
45
boxers
righteous and harmonious fists
rebelled against imperial government
wanted to expel foreign devils
46
boxer protocol of 1901
europeans can have military forces in capital
payment to europeans
suspended civil service
prosecution of govt officials
47
communists establish ppls republic of china in
1941
48
chinese revolution time
1911-1949
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chinese revolution was a period of
transition
| instability
50
manchu dynasty ---->
communist state
51
first principle
end imperial powers over china and modernize
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second principle
republican, elected form of govt with some level of autocracy
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third principle
land reform/ socialism
54
sun yat sen
first president of chinese republic
founder of modern china
nationalist party
self strengthener
55
chinese civil war time
1927-1950
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nationalists led by
chiang kai shek
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communists led by
mao zedong
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communists forced to take
long march
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communist ideology
focuses on peasants
equality for all
anti US
campaigns to root out traitors and corruption
60
great leap forward date
1958-1963
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great leap forward was a
failure
62
special economic zones
free market areas where chinese investors and entrepreneurs could start businesses with little gvt intervention
63
deng xiaoping
pragmatist
dismantled collective farming
allowed capitalism in SEZs
four modernizations
64
xi jingping
head of state
65
hukou system
household registration system
66
_____ growing fastest
navy
67
china IS americas greatest threat
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speed of getting new power
expanding territory strategically
possible fossil fuel extraction
maintaining historic integrity
control over trade routes and waterways
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68
red guards
college and high school students that became the shock troops of the cultural revolution
69
four olds
old culture old customs old ideas old habits
70
gang of four
maos wife
jiang quing
other radicals
71
little red book
maos communist writings
72
deng xiaoping
communist leader
73
guanggun
bare branches
| unmarried men
74
shengnu
leftover ladies
women who remain unmarried in late 20s and beyond
1 in 5 women is unmarried
75
one child policy establised by
deng xiaoping
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social maintanance fees
if parents do not pay fees, second child cannot get a hukou
77
gendercide
abortion of girls
78
formerly controlled by britan and became special administrative region in 1984
hong kong
79
anti secession law of china states that it can use military force if it tries to get independence from china
taiwan
80
wishes to gain independence from china as a buddhist state
tibet
81
governed as an autonomous region of china
tibet
82
where nationalist party fled at end of chinese civil war
taiwan
83
china still claims to have control over it
taiwan
84
democratic, self governed
taiwan
85
anti secession law against it
taiwan
86
US sells weapons here
taiwan
87
formerly an independent kingdom that china seized in 1950
tibet
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identified as an autonomous region
tibet
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chinese gvt suppressed the tibetan buddhist religion by destroying thousands of temples and massacring thousands of monks and nuns, dalai lama forced into exile in India
tibet
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wants to gain independence from china as buddhist state
tibet
91
british colony for over 150 yrs
hong kong
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1984- britan and china signed a treaty agreeing that hong kong would return to chinese rule in 1997
hong kong
93
one country, two systems
hong kong
94
free market capitalist financial system, freedoms
hong kong
95
religion may be practiced in a
state approved church
96
china falls short of
international standards for protection of religious freedoms
97
__ officially sanctioned religious organiztations
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5
buddhist
daoist
islamist
3 self patriotic movement
patriotic catholic
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98
internet censorship
great firewall of china
99
construction has displaced 1.3 mil people from homes and forced them into resettlement villages
three gorges dam
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xi jinping
reformed hukou system and one child policy
