POLI SCI 106 Study Guide - Final Guide: Mao Zedong, Sun Yat-Sen, Nomenklatura
30 Oct 2014
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Qin dynasty; 221 bc unification of empire, standardization; great wall. Han dynasty; technological developments, foreign exploration, development of a bureaucracy; people"s positions depend on taking an exam. Confucianism is part of social and political development: confucianism; chinese ethical and philosophical system, belief that china was the center of the world. Led to their isolationism which will cost them later. First opium war, 1911 end of qing dynasty. Loses to foreign powers; britain gets chinese hooked on opium domestic instability. 1911 overthrow of qiny dynasty end of imperial rule. Sun yat-sen, nationalist/kuomintang party (kmt) one of two main political organizations that formed to compete for power after qing dynasty grew under leadership of sun yat-sen, had support from ussr. Chinese communist party second political organization, had decent relations with the kmt but after suns death these relations unraveled. Ccp was banned and slowly came under control of mao zedong; he brought in peasants.
