PRC: Emergence & Consolidation (Lynch Chapter
4) UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Revolution - CORRECT ANSWER a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system
Qing China - CORRECT ANSWER The Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) that took over after the Ming Dynasty.
Sun Yat-sen (Sun Yixian) - CORRECT ANSWER Chinese writer, physician, and philosopher; founder and leader
of the Republic of China in 1912
Republican China - CORRECT ANSWER China between 1912 to 1916
Yuan Shikai - CORRECT ANSWER Chinese general and first president of the Chinese Republic (1912-1916).
May Fourth Movement - CORRECT ANSWER A 1919 protest in China against the Treaty of Versailles and
foreign influence.
Marxist - CORRECT ANSWER Related to the work of nineteenth- century thinkers Karl Marx and Frederich
Engel
Jiangxi Soviet - CORRECT ANSWER Soviet formed and led by Mao in the Jiangxi province, ended when forced
by Chiang to go on the Long March
Autumn Harvest Uprising - CORRECT ANSWER Uprising of the Hunan peasants against the GMD and their
landlords in September 1927, led by Mao Zedong. The uprising was quickly crushed.
Futon incident - CORRECT ANSWER 1930, Mao ordered the torture and execution of 4,000 Red Army troops he
accused of plotting gto overthrown him
Long March - CORRECT ANSWER The 6,000-mile (9,600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from
southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists, led by Mao Zedong, were pursued by the Chinese army under
orders from Chiang Kai-shek.
Yan'an Soviet - CORRECT ANSWER The survivors of the Long March settled here. Here, peasants were won over
by land redistribution and rent control. Mao and the communist leadership undertook all political decision-making, but
peasants and others participated in 'revolutionary committees'. Mao wrote a number of political and philosophical works
here and implemented 'rectification campaigns' and 'self-criticism' sessions.
Liberated - CORRECT ANSWER The CCP's term for the areas brought under their control and from which they
drove out the landlords
Usury - CORRECT ANSWER the practice of lending money at exorbitant rates
land reform - CORRECT ANSWER the process of breaking up large landholdings to attain a more balanced land
distribution among farmers
Comintern - CORRECT ANSWER Communist International, international association of communist parties led by
the Soviet Union for the purpose of encouraging worldwide communist revolution
Marxism-Leninism - CORRECT ANSWER variation of communism based on the ideas of Karl Marx and Vladimir
Lenin
the dialectic - CORRECT ANSWER The dynamic force that drives history along a predestined path
Bourgeois stage - CORRECT ANSWER The period of history when the middle class, having undermined the
previous feudal system, dominate society until the working-class revolution occurs
4) UPDATED ACTUAL Questions and
CORRECT Answers
Revolution - CORRECT ANSWER a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system
Qing China - CORRECT ANSWER The Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) that took over after the Ming Dynasty.
Sun Yat-sen (Sun Yixian) - CORRECT ANSWER Chinese writer, physician, and philosopher; founder and leader
of the Republic of China in 1912
Republican China - CORRECT ANSWER China between 1912 to 1916
Yuan Shikai - CORRECT ANSWER Chinese general and first president of the Chinese Republic (1912-1916).
May Fourth Movement - CORRECT ANSWER A 1919 protest in China against the Treaty of Versailles and
foreign influence.
Marxist - CORRECT ANSWER Related to the work of nineteenth- century thinkers Karl Marx and Frederich
Engel
Jiangxi Soviet - CORRECT ANSWER Soviet formed and led by Mao in the Jiangxi province, ended when forced
by Chiang to go on the Long March
Autumn Harvest Uprising - CORRECT ANSWER Uprising of the Hunan peasants against the GMD and their
landlords in September 1927, led by Mao Zedong. The uprising was quickly crushed.
Futon incident - CORRECT ANSWER 1930, Mao ordered the torture and execution of 4,000 Red Army troops he
accused of plotting gto overthrown him
Long March - CORRECT ANSWER The 6,000-mile (9,600-kilometer) flight of Chinese Communists from
southeastern to northwestern China. The Communists, led by Mao Zedong, were pursued by the Chinese army under
orders from Chiang Kai-shek.
Yan'an Soviet - CORRECT ANSWER The survivors of the Long March settled here. Here, peasants were won over
by land redistribution and rent control. Mao and the communist leadership undertook all political decision-making, but
peasants and others participated in 'revolutionary committees'. Mao wrote a number of political and philosophical works
here and implemented 'rectification campaigns' and 'self-criticism' sessions.
Liberated - CORRECT ANSWER The CCP's term for the areas brought under their control and from which they
drove out the landlords
Usury - CORRECT ANSWER the practice of lending money at exorbitant rates
land reform - CORRECT ANSWER the process of breaking up large landholdings to attain a more balanced land
distribution among farmers
Comintern - CORRECT ANSWER Communist International, international association of communist parties led by
the Soviet Union for the purpose of encouraging worldwide communist revolution
Marxism-Leninism - CORRECT ANSWER variation of communism based on the ideas of Karl Marx and Vladimir
Lenin
the dialectic - CORRECT ANSWER The dynamic force that drives history along a predestined path
Bourgeois stage - CORRECT ANSWER The period of history when the middle class, having undermined the
previous feudal system, dominate society until the working-class revolution occurs
