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7782433644Autonomous regionsA territorial unit that is equivalent to a province and contains a large concentration of ethnic minorities. These regions have some autonomy in the cultural sphere but in most policy matters are strictly subordinate to the central government.0
7782433645Cadres/Cadre ListA person that exercises a position of authority in a communist party-state; cadres may or may not be Communist Party members1
7782433646Central CommitteeThe top 350 or so leaders of the Chinese Communist Party. It meets annually for about two weeks and is charged with carrying on the business of the National Party Congress when it is not in session.2
7782433647Central Military Commission (CMC)The most important military organization in the People's Republic of China. headed by the general secretary of the Chinese Community Party, who is the commander-in-chief of the People's Liberation Army.3
7782433648Chiang Kai-shekA Chinese political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China between 1928 and 1975.4
7782433649Chinese Communist Party (CCP)The founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China (PRC).5
7782433650CollectivismThe theory and practice of the ownership of land and the means of production by the people or the state6
7782433651ConfucianismA system of philosophical and ethical teachings founded by Confucius7
7782433652Cultural RevolutionA chaotic mass movement in the People's Republic of China. Mao Zedong launched it in 1966, claiming that elitists were undermining the government and Chinese society.8
7782433653Democratic CentralismA system of political organization developed by V.I. Lenin and practiced, with modifications, by all communist party-states. Its principles include a hierarchical party structure.9
7782433654Deng XiaopingWas a Chinese revolutionary and statesman. He was the paramount leader of China from 1978 until his retirement in 1992. (economic reforms!!)10
7782433655Floating populationMigrants from the rural areas who have moved temporarily to the cities to find employment.11
7782433656Free market socialismAn economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses.12
7782433657General SecretaryThe formal title of the head of the Chinese Communist Party. From 1942 to 1982, the position was called "chairman" and was held by Mao Zedong.13
7782433658Great Leap ForwardA utopian effort to speed up the country's development so rapidly that China would catch up economically with Britain and the United State in just a few years. It relied on the labor power and revolutionary enthusiasm of the masses while at the same time aiming to propel China into an era of true communism in which there would be almost complete economic and social equality.14
7782433659GuanxiA Chinese term that means "connections" or "relationships" and describes personal ties between individuals based on such things as common birthplace or mutual acquaintances.15
7782433660Han ChineseThe great majority of China's citizens that are ethnically Chinese.16
7782433661Household responsibility systemThe system put into practice in China beginning in the early 1980s in which the major decisions about agricultural production are made by individual farm families based on the profit motive rather than by a people's commune or the government.17
7782433662Hu Jintaoleader of China between 2002 and 201218
7782433663Iron Rice BowlA feature of China's socialist economy during the Maoist era (1949-1976) that provided guarantees of lifetime employment, income, and basic cradle-to-grave benefits to most urban and rural workers19
7782433664Li Keqiangcurrent Premier of the State Council of the People's Republic of China.20
7782433665Mao Zedonga Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China21
7782433666Maoismthe communist doctrines of Mao Zedong as formerly practiced in China, having as a central idea permanent revolution and stressing the importance of the peasantry, of small-scale industry, and of agricultural collectivization.22
7782433667Mass Linethe primary method of revolutionary leadership of the masses23
7782433668National Party CongressThe symbolically important meeting, held every five years for about two weeks, of about 3000 thousand representatives of the Chinese Communist Party, who endorse policies and the allocation of leadership positions that have been determined beforehand by the party's much smaller ruling bodies.24
7782433669National People's Congress (NPC)The legislature of the People's Republic of China. It is under the control of the Chinese Communist Party and is not an independent branch of government25
7782433670Nationalist Party (Goumindang)current ruling political party in Taiwan.26
7782433671NomenklaturaA system of personnel selection under which the Communist Party maintained control over the appointment of important officials in all spheres of social, economic, and political life. The term is also used to describe individuals chosen through this system and thus regets more broadly to the privileged circles in the Soviet Union and China27
7782433672People's Liberation Army (PLA)The combined army forces of the People's Republic of China, which includes land,sea, air, and strategic missile forces.28
7782433673People's National Congressthe national legislature of the People's Republic of China. With 2,987 members in 2013, it is the largest parliamentary body in the world.29
7782433674Politburo/Standing CommitteeThe committee made up of the top two dozen or so leaders of the Chinese Communist Party. A subgroup of the Politburo, with less than a dozen members. The most powerful political organization in China.30
7782433675Premieralso referred to informally as the "Prime Minister", is the Leader of the State Council of China, who is the head of government and holds the highest rank in Civil Service31
7782433676Special Economic Zones (SEZs)Designated areas in countries that possess special economic regulations that are different from other areas in the same country.32
7782433677State CorporatismA political system in which the state requires all members of a particular economic sector to join an officially designated interest group. Such interest groups thus attain public status, and they participate in national policymaking. The result is that the state has great control over the groups, and groups have great control over their members.33
7782433678Sun Yat-sena Chinese revolutionary, first president and founding father of the Republic of China34
7782433679TechnocratsCareer-minded bureaucrats who administer public policy according to a technical rather than a political rationale.35
7782433680Township and Village Enterprises (TVEs)market-oriented public enterprises under the purview of local governments based in townships and villages in the People's Republic of China36
7782433681"Two Chinas"China 1 - urban China 2 - rural37
7782433682Xi JinpingGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of China, the president of the People's Republic of China, and the chairman of the Central Military Commission.38
7782433683Youth Leaguea youth movement of the People's Republic of China for youth between the ages of fourteen and twenty-eight, run by the Communist Party of China (CPC).39

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