CHINA - AP COMPARATIVE
GOVERNMENT EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% PASS
Central Committee - ANS Leadership body of the CCP made up of 340 members who meet
once a year for a week. Members of the Politburo are elected from within this body.
Central Military Commission - ANS represents the military in China's government; head plays
an important role in policymaking
Chiang Kai-shek - ANS Founder and leader of the Chinese nationalist party (KMT).
collectivism - ANS The good of the community is valued above that of the individual
Confucianism - ANS A philosophy of ethics, education, and public service based on the
writings of Confucius and traditionally thought of as one of the core elements of Chinese culture
Cultural Revolution - ANS Reforms ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of
his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.
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, danwei - ANS The basic means of social organization and a major means of political control in
China's communist party-state.
Deng Xiaoping Theory - ANS a practical mix of authoritarian political control and economic
privatization
egalitarianism - ANS a belief in the equality of all people
fang-shou - ANS The cycle of tightening up and then loosening restrictions that characterizes
Chinese politics.
factionalism - ANS The state of, or tendency toward, dividing into different groups with
conflicting interests.
Four Modernizations - ANS Deng Xiaoping's plan to increase industrialization, modernize
agriculture, improve military, develop technology and science
gang of four - ANS term used to denote the four leading radical figures - Jiang Qing, Zhang
Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen, who were arrested and blamed for the faults of
the Cultural Revolution.
Great Leap Forward - ANS Mao Zedong's failed attempt to rapidly increase China's industrial
and agricultural production between 1957-1962.
household responsibility system - ANS Deng Xiaoping's rural reform program of the 1980's
that lowered production quotas and allowed the sale of surplus agricultural produce on the free
market.
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GOVERNMENT EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS 100% PASS
Central Committee - ANS Leadership body of the CCP made up of 340 members who meet
once a year for a week. Members of the Politburo are elected from within this body.
Central Military Commission - ANS represents the military in China's government; head plays
an important role in policymaking
Chiang Kai-shek - ANS Founder and leader of the Chinese nationalist party (KMT).
collectivism - ANS The good of the community is valued above that of the individual
Confucianism - ANS A philosophy of ethics, education, and public service based on the
writings of Confucius and traditionally thought of as one of the core elements of Chinese culture
Cultural Revolution - ANS Reforms ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of
his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.
1 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
, danwei - ANS The basic means of social organization and a major means of political control in
China's communist party-state.
Deng Xiaoping Theory - ANS a practical mix of authoritarian political control and economic
privatization
egalitarianism - ANS a belief in the equality of all people
fang-shou - ANS The cycle of tightening up and then loosening restrictions that characterizes
Chinese politics.
factionalism - ANS The state of, or tendency toward, dividing into different groups with
conflicting interests.
Four Modernizations - ANS Deng Xiaoping's plan to increase industrialization, modernize
agriculture, improve military, develop technology and science
gang of four - ANS term used to denote the four leading radical figures - Jiang Qing, Zhang
Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen, who were arrested and blamed for the faults of
the Cultural Revolution.
Great Leap Forward - ANS Mao Zedong's failed attempt to rapidly increase China's industrial
and agricultural production between 1957-1962.
household responsibility system - ANS Deng Xiaoping's rural reform program of the 1980's
that lowered production quotas and allowed the sale of surplus agricultural produce on the free
market.
2 @COPYRIGHT 2025/2026 ALLRIGHTS RESERVED.
