40 Terms
Contributors in Chinese history
Chinese history
Responsibility system
History; Chinese history
A practice, first adopted in agriculture in 1981 and later extended to other sectors of the economy, by which local managers are held responsible for the profits and losses of the enterprise. This ...
Village (nong cun)
History; Chinese history
Replaced production brigades from 1982 to 1985 as the lowest-level semiofficial government entity. They provide bureaucratic coordination, and welfare payments and settle disputes. Party branches are ...
One country, two systems
History; Chinese history
A policy originating in the early 1980s that promotes reunification of Hong Kong, Macao,and Taiwan with the mainland and offers them a high degree of autonomy as special administrative regions of ...
Production brigade
History; Chinese history
Formerly the intermediate administrative level in the people's commune system, the organisational structure of the collective sector in agriculture. The highest level was the commune; the lowest, the ...
Iron rice bowl
History; Chinese history
A Chinese idiom referring to the system of guaranteed lifetime employment in state enterprises, in which the tenure and level of wages are not related to job performance.
Great proletarian cultural revolution
History; Chinese history
A slogan introduced by Mao Zedong in 1940, noted again by Liu Shaoqi in 1958, and used more frequently in connexion with leftist attacks on the "cultural front" in late 1965 and early 1966. The ...
Expert
History; Chinese history
Term usually juxtaposed with "red" (q. V. ). Denotes special knowledge or skills, or both, relating to economic management, science, and technology. Cadres are required to be both red and expert, the ...
