The opening of Deng's Reform and Opening policy refers to
a. increasing China's engagement with the global economy.
b. allowing market forces to play a greater role in the country's economy.
c. opening up state-owned enterprises to foreign investors.
d. opening up the sparsely populated regions of the country by relocating industries.
e. opening up economic decision making to nonparty technocrats.
Q. 2During the Maoist era, the Chinese state's economic policies
a. greatly improved the country's economic growth.
b. greatly improved the average standard of living.
c. were consistently modeled after the Soviet Union.
d. were marked by good management but hindered by political interference.
e. established a strong industrial base.
Q. 3Since coming to power, all Chinese communist leaders have been unified in their belief that
a. socialist economic policies are the best means to develop the country.
b. China, not the Soviet Union, should be the leader of the communist bloc of countries.
c. Communist Party leadership of China should be unchallenged.
d. the communist regime should rely upon symbols of China's past to help maintain its legitimacy and authority.
e. Taiwan should become a separate independent state.
Q. 4How did Hu and Jiang differ from earlier communist leaders of China?
a. They favored economic reforms to a more free-market economy.
b. They wanted to allow more political freedoms.
c. They were more open to the possibility of independence for Taiwan.
d. They were technocrats.
e. They favored closer ties to the United States and the West.
Q. 5Deng Xiaoping's political reforms included
a. loosening party control over writers and artists.
b. allowing for free media to flourish in China.
c. allowing for the popular election of the head of China's government.
d. allowing for the development of an official opposition party.
e. allowing more public protests.
Q. 6All of the following were important parts of the economic reforms launched by Den Xiaoping EXCEPT
a. a growth of the role of private industry.
b. reducing the role of the state in the economy.
c. a large increase in foreign trade and investment.
d. the abolition of all state-owned enterprises.
e. encouraging people to make more money rather than serving the people.
Q. 7The Gang of Four refers to
a. a group of radicals who sought to succeed Mao but ultimately lost to the moderates led by Deng Xiaoping.
b. the top positions in the Chinese Communist Party.
c. the advisors to Deng Xiaoping who advocated the use of force against demonstrators in Tiananmen Square.
d. Mao's term for the four great enemies of ChinaTaiwan, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Great Britain.
e. the top positions in the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese government.