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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. ...

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 ...