15 Terms
Contributors in Chinese history
Chinese history
Hundred Flowers Campaign
History; Chinese history
Also Double Hundred Campaign. Party-sponsored initiative to permit greater intellectual and artistic freedom. Introduced first into drama and other arts in the spring of 1956 under the official ...
Han
History; Chinese history
Also Han Chinese. Term used to designate the ethnic majority, which constitutes 93 percent of the population. The fifty-five minority nationalities make up the remainder.
Great Leap Forward
History; Chinese history
A drive to increase industrial and agricultural production following the suspension of Soviet aid and the desire to catch up with the advanced nations of the world. The campaign was conceived by Mao ...
Gang of Four
History; Chinese history
Term used by the post-Mao leadership to denote the four leading radical figures--Jiang Qing (Mao's fourth wife), Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wenyuan, and Wang Hongwen--who played a dominant political role ...
Four Modernizations
History; Chinese history
The core of a development strategy aimed at turning the country into a relatively advanced industrialised nation by the year 2000. The modernizations are those of agriculture, industry, science and ...
Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence
History; Chinese history
Mutual respect for each other's territorial integrity and sovereignty; mutual nonaggression; mutual noninterference in each other's internal affairs; equality and mutual benefit; and peaceful ...
Democracy Wall
History; Chinese history
A wall in the Xidan district in Beijing where, beginning in December 1978, in line with the party's policy of "seeking truth from facts," activists in the democracy movement recorded news and ideas, ...
