1. CHINA

2. The sleeping giant? Great civilization of history
West either ignore or exploit
Communist hold-out
Steady toward managed capitalism
Authoritarian leadership
Marketization and privatization = democracy
Superpower or LDC

3. Legitimacy
Dynastic Cycles = long periods of rule by one family punctuated by times of chaos
Mandate of Heaven = right to rule as seen by the collective ancestral wisdom that guided the empire from the heaven above
Confucian Values: order, harmony, submission
Middle Kingdom: China is the center of civilization
Constitution?
Technically grants formal authority to party and government
Authoritarian elites not bound by the rule of law
Mao to Politburo
Central Military Commission

4. Culture Dynastic Tradition Geographic Features Authoritarian Power
Confucianism
Bureaucratic Hierarchy
Middle Kingdom
Communist Ideology
Access to Ports
Large Navigable Rivers
Differing Climates
Barriers of Travel
Location and Isolation

5. Political History Historical Eras Maoism Dynastic Rule
Resistance to Imperialism
Maoism
Deng Theory
Collectivism
Struggle and Activism
Mass Line
Egalitarianism
Self-reliance

6. People’s Republic of China
Political Eras
Central Bodies
Soviet Model
Great Leap Forward
Cultural Revolution
Four Modernizations
National Party Congress
Central Committee
Politburo
Standing Committee

7. The Two Chinas Nationalists vs. Communists Urban-Rural Cleavages
Page 272
Chiang Kai-shek
Taiwan
Han Family
Mao Zedong
PRC
Peasants
Page 278
Modernized
Educated
Wealthy
Poor
Traditional
Unconnected

8. Civil Society Protests in Tiananmen Square, Tibet, Xinjang, and Taiwan
Technocrats = people with technical training who climbed the ladder of the party bureaucracy
Xinhua = China’s official news media
Hukou = traditional household registration system; makes migration difficult
Plenums = meeting of the party elite to make plans
Guanxi = personal connections; patron-client connections
Pricelings = aristocracy with ties to Mao revolution
Tuanpai = communist youth league
Fang-shuo = tightening/loosening cycles of power
Danwei = social units usually based on place of work

9. Institutions of Government
Parallel Hierarchies (pg 295)
Communist Party
Government
People’s Liberation Army
Dual Role – vertical/horizontal
National People’s Congress
President, Prime Minister (Premier)
Cadres, Provincial, Local
Judiciary
People’s Court
People’s Procuratorate
Rule of Law?

10. Policy Issues Democracy and Human Rights The Rule of Law
Civil Rights and Liberties
Population Policy
Economic Policy
Foreign Policy and International Trade

11. videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd2oUdH5SqA