HIST 106g Study Guide - Final Guide: Maoism, Taoism, Meritocracy
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Centralized bureaucracy with a measure of aristocracy: bases of legitimacy (is qin different from early han?) Republican period prc up to 1978: central state. Dictatorship single-party leninist state: elite recruitment. Scholarship in western studies army party and army: bases of legitimacy. Meritocracy (partly removed, partially able to gain merit, but not through systematic way but by loyalty to the party) vanguard of the masses. Ability to claim equality of state form with westerm states. Revolutionary ideology (sun yat-se(cid:374)is(cid:373), ma(cid:396)(cid:454)is(cid:373), le(cid:374)i(cid:374)is(cid:373), maois(cid:373) (cid:895) Cult of the leader (mao: thesis and evidence (link it back to the sources) The(cid:373)e 3: chi(cid:374)a"s pla(cid:272)e i(cid:374) the wo(cid:396)ld: whe(cid:374) does (cid:862)chi(cid:374)a(cid:863) (cid:271)egi(cid:374)? (cid:894)need to de(cid:272)ide (cid:449)hat chi(cid:374)a is(cid:895) Trade, ideas (religion), technology: trade routes, specific commodities (silk, porcelain, tea; later cloth, opium, regional or world trading systems. Technology: weapons (chariots etc, paper making/printing etc. Ideas: borrowing (buddhism, leninism, marxism, market socialism) Lending (confucianism, literacy, buddhism, maoism: diplomatic relations. Tension between agricultural interior and coastal openness.
