UNIT 5 – CHINA – TEST STUDY GUIDE
1. Describe the geography of China in comparative size, resources, climate, and topography.
2. Describe the ethnic makeup of China.
3. Describe the population size, major cities, populous environments, and ethnic group locations.
4. What the major tenets of Confucianism?
5. What aspects help to explain the 2000 year durability of the Chinese imperial system?
6. Explain the Taiping Rebellion
7. What were the major effects of the Opium War on China?
8. After their alliance between them collapsed, how did the Communists avoid the suppression of the Nationalists?
9. When did the Chinese Communist Party come to power?
10. What became of the Nationalists after losing to the communists?
11. How does China regard their relationship with Taiwan?
12. Describe the relationship between the People’s Republic of China and the Republic of China.
13. Between 1953 and 1957, what steps did China take to move it decisively towards socialism?
14. Describe the major purpose of both the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
15. What is the major difference between the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution was that the
16. What does the “Gang of Four” refer to?
17. Describe all of the important parts of the economic reforms launched by Den Xiaoping.
18. Describe Deng Xiaoping’s political reforms over writers and artists.
19. Define the purpose of the event in Tiananmen Square In the spring of 1989.
20. How did Hu and Jiang differ from earlier communist leaders of China?
21. Since coming to power, how have all Chinese communist leaders been unified in their belief of leadership.
22. Describe the state’s economic policies during the Maoist era.
23. Describe the success of China’s movement from a planned economy towards a free market economy.
24. What does the term socialist market economy refer to?
25. Describe the household responsibility system.
26. What does the term floating population refer to?
27. What have been means used to enforce China’s one-child policy?
28. Which bodies are the most powerful organizations in China’s communist party-state?
29. What is the most powerful position in the Chinese party-state?
30. How does the Chinese Communist Party exercise control over state organizations?
31. Describe China’s judicial system.
32. Explain the role and relationship of subnational governments in China.
33. Compare the size and spending of the Chinese military to that of the United States.
34. Characterizes the fragmented authoritarianism model of policy-making
35. Describe the influence the National People’s Congress, China’s legislature, has on the political process.
36. Describe the Chinese Communist Party make-up in respect to size, gender, economic demographic, and age.
37. Describe China’s noncommunist “democratic parties” and their relationship with the government.
38. Describe how elections are conducted in China, direct and indirectly.
39. Describe the state of religion in China.
A. Freedom of religion is guaranteed in the constitution but religious life is limited to officially approved
organizations and venues.
40. Describe ethnic conflict in China.
41. Describe the political demonstrations and protests since the Communists government beginning.
42. What does a consultative authoritarian regime refers to?
IN ADDITION TO THESE QUESTIONS, BE SURE TO COMPLETE AND KNOW THE QUESTIONS AFTER THE CHINA
READING IN THE WOOD TEXT.
YOUR TEST WILL BE COMPOSED OF QUESTIONS FROM STUDY GUIDE AND THE WOOD QUESTIONS.
Country Concepts Free-Response Question – Britain and China
The process of political socialization differs from country to country.
a) Define political socialization.
b) Identify two agents of political socialization that shape political attitudes in both Britain and China.
c) For each agent of socialization that you identified in (b), explain one similarity in the way it shapes political attitudes
in both Britain and China.
d) For each agent of socialization that you identified in (b), explain one difference in the way that it shapes political
attitudes in Britain and the way it shapes political attitudes in China.