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What explains China's early success?
- creativity: early version of printing, high quality skills, pottery, early version of gunpowder
- confucianism: moral system, code of behavior, made china more orderly
- civil service based on merit: what you knew rather than who you knew
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Why did westerners gain power in China?
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Was China fast or slow to modernize?
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After the last emperor, which party took over?
Chinese Communist Party
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Accomplishments of the Nationalists
- education
- basic health care
- equal rights for women
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How did the communist party gain power?
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Goals of the Great Leap Forard
- aimed at faster economic development
- huge increase in agricultural production
- development of more decentralized and self sufficient industries
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Why the Great Leap Forward failed
- lack of technical conditions for success
- too much emphasis on moral incentives rather thanmaterial incentives
- poor information
- mao's refusal to listen to anyone else
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