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42 Cards in this Set
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a superficial gesture towards modernisation |
Hundred Days of Reform - Hsu |
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modern weapons were useless in pre modern hands |
Hundred Days of Reform - McDonald |
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cixi was paralysed by indecision |
Boxer Rebellion - Seagrave |
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cixi's support of the boxers proved as unwise as it was ineffectual |
Boxer Rebellion - Lynch |
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was totally uninformed of the nature of the modern world |
Cixi - Hsu |
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many of them turned against the dynasty when their expectations could not be met |
People's response to New Reforms - Moise |
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people in power shared the revolutionaries zeal for modernisation and reform |
New Reforms - Ebrey |
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he final collapse of the qing dynasty was to a considerable extent inspired by sun yat-sen |
Sun Yat-Sen - Moise |
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the weakness of the court allowed even an unprepared and indecisive revolutionary movement to gain the upper hand |
1911 Revolution - Ryan |
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a revolution waiting to happen |
1911 Revolution - Lynch |
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powerful and creative leadership failed to appear when it was most needed |
1911 Revolution - Hsu |
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wildly idealistic, unpractical and reckless |
Republican China - Fitzgerald |
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he knew how to make the old system work, but had no vision of a new system |
Yuan Shikai - Fairbank |
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yuan achieved a virtual dictatorship |
Yuan Shikai - Hsu |
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for all his faults, yuan shikai had held the nation together |
Yuan Shikai - Ryan |
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a flowering of intellectual energy |
New Culture Movement - Ryan |
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one of the most promising and exciting times in chinese history |
New Culture Movement - Mitter |
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unity of workers, students and intellectuals indicated the beginning of a credible and important nationalist movement |
May 4th Movement - Ryan |
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a sense of real and impending crisis |
May 4th Movement - Mitter |
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an orgy of counter-revolutionary violence |
Shanghai Massacre - Meisner |
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the expedition appeared to be a hopeless folly |
Northern Expedition - New York Times |
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mighty peasant movements effectively coordinated the northern expedition and promoted its victory |
Northern Expedition - Deng Maomao |
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communist agitators were fifth column aid for the nationalists |
Northern Expedition - Fenby |
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unification achieved in this decade was more apparent than real |
Nationalist Decade - Bianco |
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stunning accomplishments from a position of unenviable weakness |
Nationalist Decade - Kirby |
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under the nanjing government china was solving her problems |
Nationalist Decade - Gray |
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the chinese people groaned under a regime that was fascist in every quality except efficiency |
Nationalist Decade - Fitzgerald |
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yan'an was run like a prison |
Yan'an - Chang & Halliday (Prison) |
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a shining beacon of fervour and patriotism |
Yan'an - Han Suyin |
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gave peasants a greater sense of their own stake in the transformation of their own lives |
Yan'an - Rebecca Karl |
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helped mao preserve his dominance as party leader |
Rectification Campaign - Spence |
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unity resulted because those who held out against mao were vilified, penalised, jailed or even executed |
Rectification Campaign - Fairbank |
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cadres emerged from this baptism of fire feeling strengthened |
Rectification Campaign - Zarrow |
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far from the popular image of a peasant army rising in revolution, the PLA deployed heavy tanks and artillery |
Civil War - Fenby |
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every major area of nationalist military weakness is an area of red army strength |
Civil War - Bianco |
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the party was struggling for nationalist goals more vigorously than the gmd |
Second United-Front - Moise |
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he has neither the strength nor the administrative apparatus to make reform stick (Guangxu) |
100 Days of Reform- Fenby
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this facile turnover... and almost bloodless rapidity...which was the weakness and later became the failure of the Revolution |
1911 Revolution- Suyin
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self-proclaimed republicans now hounded the true revolutionaries to death with nearly the same alacrity as the Manchu's has done |
1911 Revolution- Suyin
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came to depend on the same western powers that they had sworn to overthrow |
1911 Revolution- Suyin
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china lapsed into national disunity |
Warlord Era- McDonald |
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aimed to eliminate the influence of Mao's own political opponents |
Yan'an- Schram |
