China Vocabulary

3. Mao's division of the Chinese public into groups which controlled all aspects of peasants' lives and assigned jobs to each person
6. the bow to the Chinese emperor which Europeans refused to do by the 18th century
7. the spread of ideas to promote a cause or damage an opposing cause
11. Communist leader who became the first dictator of the People's Republic of China in 1949
12. China's best known philosopher whose ideas over time came to dominate Chinese society
13. an authority given to westerners in China who were accused of crimes who were allowed to be tried in courts in their home countries
14. the duty and respect that children owe their parents
15. in the 1950s, the Chinese government forced peasants to pool their land, tools, and labor; peasants became employees of the state and received a share of the harvest

1. American president who visited China in 1971 and started the process for the two countries to establish diplomatic and economic relations
2. symbols used by the Chinese to express ideas such as beauty, joy, and justice
4. industrial working class that Karl Marx predicted would rise up and create a new, classless society
5. an area in which a foreign nation has special economic privileges, such as the right to build railroads and factories
8. a country in which the government controls every aspect of its citizens' lives through a single party dictatorship
9. the rise and fall of ruling families
10. began in 1966 under Mao, this movement to "root out" capitalists within the country led to chaos within China
16. another term for a free market economy