15 Terms
Contributors in Chinese history
Chinese history
United front
History; Chinese history
Chinese Communist Party strategy that attempts to utilise an organisation or movement for the purpose of building a consensus and an organised following for party-supported programmes and goals. ...
Township (xiang)
History; Chinese history
The basic government administrative unit below the county level in rural areas. Townships existed before people's communes were organised in 1958 and were reconstituted when production brigades and ...
Revisionism
History; Chinese history
As used by communists, term refers to political, economic, and social tendencies that stray to the right of orthodox Marxism- Leninism. The Chinese communists long insisted that these tendencies were ...
Mass line
History; Chinese history
Term for party policy aimed at broadening and cultivating contacts with the masses of the people and to accentuate the leadership role of the Chinese Communist Party.
Neighbourhood
History; Chinese history
Term in general use in China for the urban administrative unit usually found immediately below the district level, although an intermediate, subdistrict level exists in some cities. Also called ...
Four cardinal principles
History; Chinese history
Socialism; dictatorship of the proletariat; supporting the party leadership; and Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought. In vogue in China since 1979.
Mass movement
History; Chinese history
Derived from the concept of "mass line". Party- directed campaign designed to mobilise the masses in support or execution of major policies. Such movements were characteristic of the 1950s through ...
