ASIA 1225 - Class #13 (Review)

By the end of Mao Zedong's 28-year term as China's leader, the Chinese Communist Party had accomplished many of its original aims, including...

• Bringing all the former Qing empire's territory under its control.

• Building a military able to defend China's sovereignty against foreign invasion.

• Establishing China as a wealthy member-nation of the global capitalist economy.

• All of these.

Beginning in 1978, Deng Xiaoping shifted the Chinese Communist Party’s focus from class struggle to economic development by designing and implementing a series of reforms that included…

• Restoring markets.

• Loosening restrictions on private ownership.

• Opening China to foreign trade, investment, and tourism.

• All of these.

The household responsibility system that Deng Xiaoping introduced in the 1980s...

• Contracted families to sell a set amount of agricultural product to the state at an above-market price.

• Led to a steep decline in both agricultural production and average rural income.

• Gave families the opportunity to sell over-quota production on the open market.

• All of these.

Special Economic Zones (SEZs) established in various Chinese coastal cities during the 1980s gave rise to...

• Increased foreign trade and investment.

• Inflation and market instability.

• Smuggling, embezzlement, and bribery.

• All of these.

The relatively lenient cultural policies of the 1980s gave rise to a movement called (a)   , in which Chinese citizens debated the values of Chinese and Western culture for bringing economic and political modernization to China.

The government-led crackdown campaigns that took place during the early-1980s sought to...

• Identify and punish corrupt officials.

• Reduce inflation.

• Suppress bourgeois cultural practices and slow the spread of foreign influences.

• None of these.