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 China
 Country in East Asia
 China, officially the People's Republic of China, is a country
in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a
population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India.
 Capital: Beijing
 Official language: Mandarin
Important Facts about China

 China has the largest population in the world. ...

 Officially China has 56 ethnic groups. ...
 There are about 35 million people who live in caves in China! ...
 Chinese is the only surviving pictographic writing system. ...
 China has a fast-booming economy.
 The timeline of Chinese history
China has over 3,000 years of history, based on the earliest
written records. China’s timeline shows the rise and fall of
the main 15 Chinese dynasties, and modern era governments.
Decline of Qing Dynasty (1644 – 1912)
Poverty led many to rebel against the Qing. Foreign powers
were also starting to involve themselves in trade with China,
which led to wars and treaties that harmed the Qing.
Republic of China (1912 – 1949)
The Republic of China (ROC), between 1912 and 1949, was a
sovereign state recognized as the official designation
of China.
  Chinese Civil War (1927 – 1949)
Between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party of China
 Founders:
Mao Tse-Tung (December 26, 1893 – September 9, 1976)
Chou En-Lai (March 5, 1898 - January 8, 1976)
 On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-Tung
declared the creation of the People's Republic of China (PRC).
 This Lesson presents:
 An Exemplary social Experiments
 Decentralized Economy
 Day in the Life of a 16-year old
 Chinese Women
 Social Security Benefits

 In this essay Galeazzo Santini provides us the secret behind

China’s remarkable progress since independence in 1949.
China encloses one-fourth of the humanity and this huge
population, according to the western world, will lead to the
elimination of China. On devotion having a common aim before
them, this numerical strength becomes a “POWER” and not a
threat to its existence. 
 From 1949 – to 1971
 Island of Formosa / Taiwan
 Bamboo in Chinese culture:
symbol of integrity, strength,
modesty and loyalty.
 Forgotten ignored, neglected
 Curtain blind, screen
 Enclosed confined, surrounded
 Occidentals westerns
 Launched initiated, introduced
 Peking dated form of Beijing
 Quasi-pilgrimage holy journey
 Battalions crowd, throng
 Canton fair china’s import and
export fair started from 1957
 Dislocating displacing
 Delegations representatives
 Souvenir memorial, memento
 Mounting increasing
 Absurdity foolishness
 Oblivion forgetfulness
 Uncertain indefinite, doubtful
 Confronting facing
 Enigma problem, riddle
 Iron Age
 between 1200 B.C. and 600 B.C
 Occasions chances
 Grim grave, dreadful
 Pervasive prevalent, pervading
 Schizophrenia
mental disease, personality disorder
Inheritance heritage, legacy
 Split divided
 Rescued saved, protected
 Aftermath after-effect,
consequences

 Vietnamese declared “War

Against the Americans to Save
the Nation”. They didn’t accept
their supremacy even boycotted
their products, aid.
 Plagued tormented, pestered
 Ascetic recluse, hermit
 Militant fighter, warrior,
belligerent
Expansion enlargement
Gigantic huge, enormous
Striving struggling, trying
Interpreter translator
*Edgar Parks Snow was an
American journalist 
 Gross National Product GNP
 Utterly entirely, completely

 Robert Guillain was a French

journalist.
 Fevers passion, frenzy
 Exodus mass departure, emigration
 masses public
 Reduce minimize , control
 The structure of the
commune was such that
households were organized
into teams, then teams
formed brigades, and
brigades formed
the commune.
 Peasants farmers
 Intensive acute, rigorous
Mechanization use of machinery
 Considerable significant
 Caution care 
 Incorporated merged, mixed
 Flee migrate, run away
 Technically-oriented
use of modern technology
  Great Proletarian Cultural
Revolution, was a sociopolitical
movement in the People's
Republic of China launched by
Mao in 1966.
 Cumbersome heavy, complicated
inconvenient
 Enterprise business
 Subsist live, support
 Thomas Hobbes was an English
philosopher -
masterpiece Leviathan (1651)
 Root out eliminate, eradicate
 Conceive think
 Embellishment decoration
Maxim proverb, saying
Forces resources
Indigenous local, native
 Stimulate excite, motivate
 Revolutionary radical
 six years of primary school
 three years of lower
secondary school / Junior
School system
 three years of upper
secondary school / senior
school system
 Four years university
education
 Chores tasks
Illustrate elaborate
 Femininity womanliness
effeminacy
 Opium /drugs narcotic

 Affirming asserting
 Radical revolutionary
 Hitherto till now
 Calculated estimated
 Board Constituent
departments of State Council
 Step in interfere
 Assistance aid, help
 Vary differ, diverge
 Plants factories, workshops
 Dietician food-expert
 Entitled eligible
 Exceed go beyond
 Set up establish
 Regime government
 Subsistence live on, livelihood
 Intervene interfere, intercede
 Handicap disability
 Constituted established
 Comprising consisting
 Resorted used, utilized
 Prospects likelihood
 Quotations from Chairman
Mao Tse-Tung / the Little
Red Book Originally
published: January 5, 1964
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