Modern Chinese politics

What is the Hukou system?

• A system that restricts Chiense citizens' origin and grants them rights to education, work, etc only in that origin.

• A type of Chinese art associagted to the Qing Dynasty

• An economic policy plan that is organised into 5 year periods

• An urbanisation project for the economic development of the country

What is the highest legislative body in China?

• The Central Committee

• The People's Liberation Army

• The National People's Congress

• The politburo

What is the Politburo?

• The head institution of the military in China and it is composed by the leader of the CCP

• The organisation of Local Governments in Chinese Politics

• The foreign relations office within the Party elite

• A seven-member committee that became the leading policy-making body of the Communist Party in China

How many ethinicities are there in China? And what is the majority of the population's ethnicity?

• 54 and Han Chinese

• 51 and Cantonese Chinese

• 56 and Han Chinese

• 56 and Uyghur Chinese

How does political hierarchy between the State, the Army and the CCP in China work?

• The CCP rules over the State and the Army, but the last two are also powerful.

• The Army is above the CCP and the state is composed of both and has no power.

• The State is composed of the CCP and the Army, and is the most important organisation in China.

• The CCP, the State and the Military share equal power and coexist in a perfect balance.

What is the definition of civil society?

• A society concerned with the protection of civil rights

• A political society that is organised to control economic policies

• A society considered as a community of citizens linked by common interests and collective activity.

• A society that understands the law and is organised to protect it

What were the Tiananmen square protests?

• Student-led demonstration in Beijing in 1989 calling for political reform and freedom of speech, met with a violent crackdown by the Chinese government.
• Environmental protest against pollution in China
• Military parade in honor of the Chinese government
• Peaceful gathering to celebrate Chinese culture

What is democratic centralism?

• A form of democracy that is organised in the centre of the country

• a form of democracy in which the true interests of the masses were discovered through discussion within the Communist party, and then decisions were made under central leadership to serve those interests.

• A form of democracy characterised by a lot of voting centres

• A form of democracy characterised by active citizen participation and lack of government intervention

Please explain whether China is mostly rural or urban and the role that urbanisation has had in Chinese economy in the last decades.

Do you think China is favourable to ethnicities other than Han chinese? Please argue your answer explaining whatever you know about government policies towards ethinicities, persecution of ethnicities or things that you have learnt in class.