Across
- 5. Majority of China’s ethnic population who historically formed the basis of China’s identity, first as an empire, and eventually as a country
- 6. China’s traditional household registration system that makes it difficult to move from one place to another; reason for political unrest
- 7. China’s largest city
- 8. The _____ Square massacre of 1989 showed the limits of protest in China, i.e., democratic movements that defy the party leadership will not be tolerated
- 9. The (acronym) is the largest political party in the world in terms of total formal membership; it is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China (PRC)
- 10. In 1990, Beijing allowed (acronym) to register within the government; examples range from ping-pong clubs to environmentalist groups
- 11. Individuals with technical training who climbed the ladder of the party bureaucracy
- 12. Revolutionaries during the Maoist era whose careers depended on party loyalty and ideological purity; led the Chinese Communist Party at all levels
- 13. The current president of China
Down
- 1. By 2007, almost 73 million Chinese youths belonged to this branch of the Chinese Communist Party
- 2. China’s official news media
- 3. The capital city of China
- 4. Chinese government grants ______ regions the right of self-government in some matters, such as cultural affairs, but independence is in fact very limited (ex. Guangxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Tibet, Xinjiang)
- 7. Prime Minister Wen Jiabao announced in 2006 a new government emphasis on “a new ____ countryside,” a program to lift the lagging rural economy
- 8. This autonomous region of China rallies around the Dalai Lama who set up a government-in-exile the Chinese Communist Party has never recognized; continues to campaign for independence today