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| Confucius | Philosopher who has had the greatest impact and influence on Chinese society and history |
| Filial Piety | Respect and obedience for your elders, especially your parents |
| Jen | A universal love and concern for all others' especially important for the emperor to show |
| Loyalty | What citizens had to show to an emperor who showed jen |
| Peasants | Second highest social class; they were very productive as they made something useful out of nothing |
| Artisans | Middle social class; they were very respectable since they made something out of something else |
| Merchants | 4th highest or second lowest social class; they lived off others' work and were unproductive |
| Mean People | The lowest social class; these outcasts performed unclean or undesireable jobs |
| Order | This was a required for Confucius' perfect society; the 5 relationships set this up in society |
| Responsibility | One of the items stressed by Confucius for society to run smoothly |
| Education | An important element of society; to Confucius this is what made the upper classes superior |
| Concubine | The term for a man's second, third, etc., wife |
| Oldest son | The most important and influential child; they inherited everything |
| Infanticide | this might was practiced in China to help control the population |
| Footbinding | What wealthy women in traditional China did to make themselves appear more attractive |
| Polygamy | Allowing men to have concubines would be an example of this practice. |
| Patriarchy | authority in traditional Chinese families was held by the men; thus a traitional family was considered this. |
| Arranged | In traditional China marriages were this by your clan |
| Dowry | Gift of money, land, or property paid by the brides' family to the groom's family |
| Analalects | The book of Confucius teachings |
| Gentry | The highest social class; since they were educated they were superior and expected to run society |
| Zhou | Dynasty Confucius lived during |
| Patrilocal | Since brides joined and lived with their husband's clan, traditional Chinese families were this |
| Joint | Type of family, like traditional China's that inclueded more than 3 generations, uncles, cousins, etc. |
| Kung | Confucius' family name, the Chinese refer to him as "Master_________" |
| Barbarians | What the Chinese called foreigners who did not share Chinese culture |
| Boxer Rebellion | Peasants attempt to kick out ALL foreigners from China in 1900; done by the Fists of Righeous Harmony |
| British | Nation that degeated the Chinese in the Opium War |
| Chiang Kaishek | Nationalist leader, loser of the revolution, ruled Taiwan from 1949 until the mid 1970's |
| Extraterritoriality | this kept foreigners out of Chinese Courts |
| Democracy | One of the 'Three Principles of the People,' it is a representative government |
| Forbidden City | Area of Bejing set aside for the emperor's palace and was off limits to citizens |
| Guangzhou | only city foreigners were allowed to trade in, under the restrictions of the Ming and Qing dynasties |
| Kuomingtong | The Nationalist Party started by Sun Yatsen |
| Hong Kong | Area given to Britain by China after the Opium War |
| Hong Xiaquan | Peasant who led the Taiping Rebellion |
| Imperialism | When a powerful nation takes over a weaker nation, for the benefit of the powerful nation |
| John Hay | U.S. Secretary of State who set up Open Door Policy |
| Kowtow | Act required of foreigners to show their inferiority to the Chinese |
| Livelihood | One of the 'Three Priniples of the People;' it meant a decent living for all Chinese |
| Manchus | Foreigners who ruled the Qing dynasty |
| Nationalism | One of the 'Three Priniples of the People;' it stressed unifying China to get rid of the foreigners |
| Open Door Policy | Ended the spheres of influence and allowed the U.S. to trade in China |
| Opium | Product Englad sold to China that resulted in war |
| Portuguese | The first European nation to sail to China and trade |
| Qing | Dynasty that ruled China when the Europeans surpassed China technologically |
| Queue | Hairstyle worn by Manchu men |
| Spheres of Infulence | Sections of China where foreign nations got special privilavges |
| Sun Yatsen | First president of the Chinese republic, his Three Principles of the People were goals for China |
| Taiping Rebellion | Peasant attempt to overthrow the Manchus from 1851- 1865 |
| Chiang Kai-shek | follower of Sun Yatsen |
