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🏓History of Modern China
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238 essential vocabulary terms and definitions to know for your History of Modern China exam

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21st century maritime silk road
863 program

A

Agricultural collectivization
Alipay
Anti-confucianism
Anti-foreign sentiment
Anti-imperialism
Anti-manchu sentiment
Anti-qing sentiment
Arrow Incident
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

B

Backyard steel campaign
Baihua
Balance of Trade
Battle of Nanjing
Battle of Pungdo
Battle of Pyongyang
Battle of Shanghai
Battle of Taku Forts
Battle of the Yalu River
Battle of Tianjing
Beijing
Beijing Tongwen Guan
Beijing University Intellectuals
Board of Rites
Board of Works
Bombard the Headquarters

C

Capitalist roaders
Charter '08
Chen Duxiu
Chinese Communist Party (CCP)
Chinese Nationalism
Chinese Nationalist Party
Christian Missionaries
Civil Strife
Comintern
Comprador class
Confucian Bureaucracy
Confucian Social Order
Confucian Values
Confucianism in Governance
Continuous revolution
Convention of Peking
Counterrevolutionary behavior

D

Developmental State Theory
Diplomatic recognition
Dungan Revolt

E

Economic Decline in Qing China
Economic modernization
Education reform
Egalitarian society
Eight Banners
Emperor Kangxi
Environmental Protection Law
Export-oriented growth strategy
Export-oriented industries
Extraction rights

F

Factional fighting
Factional warfare
Feng yuxiang
Foochow Arsenal
Four Olds Campaign
Four Pests Campaign
Fuzhou Naval Shipyard

G

Gang of Four
Gentry class
Grain for Green Program
Grain Procurement System
Great Firewall of China
Green development
Guangxi

H

Historical revisionism
Hong Kong
Hong Kong ceded to Britain
Hong Xiuquan