AP COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT:
CHINA EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% PASS
Dynastic Rule - ANS (221 BCE - 1911 CE)
- Mandate of Heaven
- Confucianism
- Centralized government
- Middle Kingdom: "middle" of Earth
Mandate of Heaven - ANS Chosen by a higher power to rule
- An excuse to take over
- Just rule = legitimacy
- Any problems = no legitimacy
Confucianism - ANS - Order, harmony, virtuous leaders
- Obedience
Centralized government - ANS Mandarins and Eunuchs (bureaucrats and civil servants)
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,Century of Humiliation - ANS - Led to rising nationalism
- Opium Wars
- Treaty of Nanjing
- Treaty ports, spheres of influence
- Extraterritoriality
- First of "unequal treaties"
- China reduced to semi-colonial status
Opium Wars - ANS (1839-1842)
Britain sold opium in China, but when China asked them to stop Britain wouldn't, even though
the Chinese had become addicted
Treaty of Nanjing - ANS Hong Kong to Britain in 1841
- Weakened sovereignty
Republic of China - ANS (Formed 1912)
- Rising nationalism -- Qing Dynasty collapsed in 1911
- Question over how China should be governed -- Dr. Sun Yat-sen was the first and only
Democratic President, while regional warlords challenged popular government
- Two competing political parties -- Nationalist Party (Chiang Kai-Shek) and the 1921 Chinese
Communist Party (Mao Zedong)
Communists defeat Nationalists - ANS - The Epic Long March 1934-35
- Japanese invasion weakens Nationalists
- CCP cultivates peasantry
- Communists defeat Nationalists
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, - Chiang Kai-Shek and supporters flee to Taiwan
- October 1, 1949 PRC formed
The Epic Long March - ANS Mao Zedong and the Communist Party led a long march to hide
out, since they were losing
- Gained tons of support on the way
Mao Zedong - ANS (1949-1976)
- Influence of Soviet Union (1953-1957)
- Cult of Personality -- legitimacy
- Hundred Flowers Movement (1956)
- Anti-Rightest Campaign (1957)
- Great Leap Forward (1958)
- Cultural Revolution (1966-76)
Influence of Soviet Union - ANS (1953-57)
- Command economy
- Socialism
- Collectivization
- Five year plans
Hundred Flowers Movement - ANS (1956)
- Chinese glasnost
- Took the criticisms hard
Anti-Rightest Campaign - ANS (1957)
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CHINA EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% PASS
Dynastic Rule - ANS (221 BCE - 1911 CE)
- Mandate of Heaven
- Confucianism
- Centralized government
- Middle Kingdom: "middle" of Earth
Mandate of Heaven - ANS Chosen by a higher power to rule
- An excuse to take over
- Just rule = legitimacy
- Any problems = no legitimacy
Confucianism - ANS - Order, harmony, virtuous leaders
- Obedience
Centralized government - ANS Mandarins and Eunuchs (bureaucrats and civil servants)
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
,Century of Humiliation - ANS - Led to rising nationalism
- Opium Wars
- Treaty of Nanjing
- Treaty ports, spheres of influence
- Extraterritoriality
- First of "unequal treaties"
- China reduced to semi-colonial status
Opium Wars - ANS (1839-1842)
Britain sold opium in China, but when China asked them to stop Britain wouldn't, even though
the Chinese had become addicted
Treaty of Nanjing - ANS Hong Kong to Britain in 1841
- Weakened sovereignty
Republic of China - ANS (Formed 1912)
- Rising nationalism -- Qing Dynasty collapsed in 1911
- Question over how China should be governed -- Dr. Sun Yat-sen was the first and only
Democratic President, while regional warlords challenged popular government
- Two competing political parties -- Nationalist Party (Chiang Kai-Shek) and the 1921 Chinese
Communist Party (Mao Zedong)
Communists defeat Nationalists - ANS - The Epic Long March 1934-35
- Japanese invasion weakens Nationalists
- CCP cultivates peasantry
- Communists defeat Nationalists
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
, - Chiang Kai-Shek and supporters flee to Taiwan
- October 1, 1949 PRC formed
The Epic Long March - ANS Mao Zedong and the Communist Party led a long march to hide
out, since they were losing
- Gained tons of support on the way
Mao Zedong - ANS (1949-1976)
- Influence of Soviet Union (1953-1957)
- Cult of Personality -- legitimacy
- Hundred Flowers Movement (1956)
- Anti-Rightest Campaign (1957)
- Great Leap Forward (1958)
- Cultural Revolution (1966-76)
Influence of Soviet Union - ANS (1953-57)
- Command economy
- Socialism
- Collectivization
- Five year plans
Hundred Flowers Movement - ANS (1956)
- Chinese glasnost
- Took the criticisms hard
Anti-Rightest Campaign - ANS (1957)
3 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
