STUDY GUIDE FOR FINAL EXAM READINGS QUESTIONS PART 2: ASIA AND CHINA

Fall 2009

 

Global Studies: China

 

China

1.     basic principles of Confucianism

 

2.     why many Chinese long for the “good old days” of Mao’s rule

 

3.     the Maoist model

 

4.     the effects of the Cultural Revolution on the Chinese Communist Party

 

5.     the effects of the one-child policy on Chinese children

 

6.     the Dalai Lama

 

7.     animism

 

8.     ancestor worship

 

9.     Qigong

 

10.Falun Gong

 

11.the effects of computer use on the ability to write Chinese characters

 

12.effects of liberalization policies on Chinese language

 

13.theory of the three represents

 

14.the underlying problems of China’s stock markets

 

15. xenophobia

 

16.the American policy of engagement with China

 

 

 

Hong Kong

 

1.     Sinocentrism

 

2.     why Hong Kong is an attractive place for doing business

 

3.     what was “handed over” on July 1, 1997

 

 

 

Article 1: The Real China Threat

 

1. how China increasingly ignores old norms as it grows richer

 

Article 2: At the Gate to Greatness

 

1.     four reasons why China is more likely to remain the muscle-bound adolescent of the international system

 

Article 3: Does China Have it Right?

 

1. a socialist market economy

 

Article 7: China’s Complicit Capitalists

 

1. two misguided assumptions about China’s capitalist class

 

Article 8: China’s Living Laboratory in Urbanization

 

1. the world’s first carbon-neutral city

 

Article 9: When China Met Africa

 

1.     why the Chinese-African partnership seems to be win-win

 

2. the one sector where the interests of Africa and China are in sync

 

Article 10: China’s Factory Blues

 

1. reasons for manufacturing restructuring in China

 

Article 11: Bye Bye Cheap Labor

 

1. where are Chinese factories moving to?

 

Article 17: Chasing the Chinese Dream

 

1.     the land where opportunities are endless, individual enterprise is rewarded, and tolerance is universal

 

2. the result of China’s openness to foreigners

 

Article 18: The China Model

 

1. components of the China model

 

Article 21: China’s Coal Future

 

1. primary cause of pollution in China

 

Article 28: The Beautiful and the Dammed in China

 

1. reason for fears of water pollution at the Three Gorges Dam

 

Article 31: Forced Harmony: China’s Olympic Rollercoaster

 

1. a source of new legitimacy for the Chinese Communist Party

 

 

 


Barboza 2007 "Report Cites Brutal Conditions in Chinese Factories"
1. reasons why workers' rights groups say tained and defective products come from China


Kahn and Yardley 2007 "As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes"
1. China's leading cause of death

2. the political calculus of economic growth and pollution

3. China's leaders' argument about the role of the outside world in pollution in China